A development group will dedicate 35% of its Jersey City Bayfront project to affordable housing under the first redevelopment agreement for the much-anticipated, massive Hackensack River waterfront mixed-use project, city officials announced Wednesday….
Miss Manners: How to respond to a ‘friend’s’ rude comment
DEAR MISS MANNERS: We were out to dinner with my husband’s college roommate and others. At the table, he loudly remarked to my husband, “Looks like you’re really losing your hair!” Everyone at the table was shocked by his insensitive and inappropriate …
FBI joins search for Jersey City college student missing since 2019
A Jersey City woman missing for more than three years has been placed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) most-wanted list as a missing person. Mayushi Bhagat, 28, has been missing since April 29, 2019. She was last seen leaving her apartmen…
Woman already served the prison term, but an error just won her a new trial
Kimberly Watson was released from the state prison system in March of this year after serving about a third of a nine-year sentence for a theft conviction stemming from a 2014 investigation at her former workplace. On Monday, she won a new trial from a…
NJCU president’s going-away package is nearly $650K. It could balloon to $1 million with other perks
New Jersey City University President Sue Henderson is going away, but she’s not leaving empty-handed. The departing school leader will receive a golden parachute of nearly $650,000 in severance and sabbatical pay after resigning on the same day school …
Fauci expects to retire by end of Biden’s current term
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Monday he plans to retire by the end of President Joe Biden’s term in January 2025. Fauci, 81, was appointed director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases i…
Chlorine fumes at N.J. pool send 14 campers to hospital for observation, officials say
Fourteen participants in a soccer camp were taken to the hospital for observation Monday after they became sick while at a pool on Drew University’s campus in Madison, officials said. The campers, who were all juveniles, experienced chlorine inhalation…
‘Freedom and liberty and democracy are on the ballot,’ VP Kamala Harris tells NAACP convention
Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday sounded an alarm for a woman’s right to choose and the ability to vote and against gun violence as she urged members of the NAACP’s national convention in Atlantic City to protect hard-fought constitutional guaran…
N.J. weather: Severe thunderstorm watch issued for threat of strong storms with damaging winds
The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch across 18 counties in New Jersey with a cold front expected to trigger waves of rain showers and intense thunderstorms Monday afternoon through Monday night. Forecasters say some of th…
Grocery store owner shot and killed in deadly weekend of violence in Newark, authorities say
A grocery store owner was shot and killed Sunday afternoon at his business in Newark, authorities said. Rabel Ramos-Gomez, 46, of Belleville was gunned down at R & A Supermarket on the corner of South 10th Street and 13th Avenue just after 4 p.m, accor…