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By The Staff _ TRENTON, N.J. – As a second March nor’easter inches closer to New Jersey, and the lights are still off for thousands of residents in Hunterdon, Warren and Somerset counties, legislators are beginning to demand action from the Murphy Administration. Assemblyman Erik Peterson (R-Hunterdon) declared that Governor Phil Murphy’s initial failure to declare…
JERSEY CITY — Eugene McKnight, the Democratic political operative hired four years ago to work for Jim McGreevey’s prisoner re-entry program, has been fired after program officials learned he was taking monthly cash payments from ex-offenders he helped find jobs for, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. McKnight’s termination would be the second time…
Kenny Bachman made the mistake of drunkenly taking an $1,600 Uber from West Virginia to New Jersey. Now, he’s asking you to help him pay for it. Bachman, whose late-night tale has become a national story after NJ Advance Media first wrote about it last Wednesday, has launched a GoFundMe page to help him foot the…
WASHINGTON — The American Action Network, a nonprofit that keeps its donors secret, is up with a new television and digital ad campaign supporting Rep. Tom MacArthur for supporting the Republican tax bill signed by President Donald Trump. In all, AAN announced plans to spend $1 million on ads in 24 congressional districts after earlier spending…
An Assembly panel approved legislation Monday its supporters said would protect patients from getting socked with bills from out-of-network doctors and hospitals — a $1 billion problem lawmakers have failed to settle for nearly a decade. The legislation would protect thousands of New Jerseyans covered by state-regulated health plans from “balance-billing,” or paying what an insurance…
A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 ‘actively gay’ priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples. The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ “hypocrisy” any longer. “The aim is not…
Mark Hamill, Kelly Marie Tran, Oscar Isaac and BB-8 took the stage at the 2018 Oscars to present the awards for animated short and animated feature. But their film, “Star Wars: The Last Jedi,” ended the night winless, extending the franchise’s Oscars drought. It’s been 40 years since George Lucas and his galactic fairy tale made…
Two 19-year-olds from New Jersey and a puppy were killed and a 20-year-old man critically injured when their car drifted off the road and hit a tree in Delaware this morning, according to a report on delawareonline.com. Driver Adrian Velazquez of Kearny and passenger Alfahtee Heuy of Hillside were pronounced dead at the scene of the…
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.) has posted a five-point plan to “make communities safer” on his website, measures that he believes will help solve the epidemic of gun massacres in our country while protecting the Second Amendment rights he holds sacred. Point 1 calls for stronger background checks, one that covers every gun purchase in America…
A call of a possible explosive device that caused emergency personnel to flood the 7th Avenue Beach in Seaside Park on Sunday was prompted by a toy hand grenade, authorities said. Seaside Park spokesman Cpl. Steve Shadiack said the Ocean County Radio Room at 12:50 p.m. received a call that what appeared to be a hand…
Manipulating the statistics on school discipline issues can mean big bucks for districts once the stats tell the feds the story they want to hear, as a piece in recently noted. Unless Secretary of Education Betsy Devos can roll back the Obama-era guidelines that encouraged this, the politically correct recipe for disaster could pave the way…
Walmart announced that it will raise the age of those who can purchase firearms at its stores to 21. The company also said it will ban toys and items that resemble assault rifles in the wake of the Valentine’s Day Parkland, Florida high school massacre “In light of recent events, we’ve taken an opportunity to review…
US retail giant Walmart announced Wednesday that it was raising to 21 its minimum age to buy firearms and ammunition, the latest US company to recalibrate its stance on weapons after a deadly Florida school shooting. “In light of recent events, we’ve taken an opportunity to review our policy on firearm sales. Going forward, we are…
