Today at the Long Branch Free Public Library, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (NJ-06) stressed the need to protect net neutrality from the Trump administration’s attempts to roll back the protections that are the foundations of the free and open internet.…
A Trenton man was sentenced on Thursday, August 24, 2017, to 84 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking organization that allegedly distributed hundreds of grams of heroin in Trenton and the surrounding areas. Thomas Rogers,…
Two California men who were arrested in Essex County, New Jersey, with over 140 kilograms of narcotics in their possession made their initial appearances today in Newark federal court. Abraham Castro, 33, of San Diego, California, and Hector Leonel Lucas-Ramos,…
US Senator Robert Menendez is charged in 2015 with accepting nearly a million dollars worth of bribes from Florida eye doctor Salomon Melgen in exchange for lobbying for Melgen’s business interests. He faces a lengthy prison sentence if he is convicted of all…
Pulitzer Prize Board Chair Eugene Robinson spoke out recently, calling President Donald Trump’s rhetoric castigating the media ‘very troubling.’ Eugene Robinson spoke with Nick Ferrari of BBC Newsnight about Trump, the media and the “real America” in a recent interview. Of…
The Gateway Family YMCA – Wellness Center Branch announced plans to expand the YMCA located at 1000 Galloping Hill Rd, Union. Expansion plans include renovations to the facility creating an additional group exercise studio on the main level for program…
The long awaited corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez begins this week. “Jurors are being screened as I type away,” wrote Jay Lassiter, an LGBT and marijuana reform activist who is a correspondent for one of New Jersey’s political news blogs.…
One of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, New Jersey gang member Walter Yovany Gomez was arrested without incident on August 11, 2017, in Woodbridge, Virginia, made his initial appearance in federal court Wednesday, August 23, 2017, in Newark in…
Jim Whelan, who served Atlantic City as a lifeguard, a school teacher, councilman, mayor, assemblyman and state senator, died on Tuesday at the age of 68. Whelan said said he was expected to make a full recovery after a successful…
In a stunning setback to prosecutors handling cases against a Nevada rancher and his sons who led several armed insurrections against the federal government, a jury acquitted four defendants who threatened to shoot law enforcement officers with semi-automatic rifles Eric Parker, Steven…
