1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1602+ words) By James J. Devine The United States celebrated its 250th birthday this year with fireworks, flags, military flyovers, and solemn speeches about liberty and peace. The fireworks, at least, were historically appropriate. America was born shooting and for most of the quarter-millennium…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (189+ words) A tragic fire claimed the lives of a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy, while an adult male in the home managed to escape unharmed when a fire ripped through a home in Trenton, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning, officials…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (374+ words) The body of a woman who jumped into the Delaware River to rescue a struggling girl was recovered Tuesday morning, on what would have been her 34th birthday, police said. Authorities and family are mourning the loss of Priscila Alvares Pereira…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (549+ words) Congressman Tom Kean Jr. is considered the most vulnerable Republican incumbent but his campaign is touting an endorsement from a group that wants to cut Medicare and privatize Social Security. The 60 Plus Association, which was created with seed money from…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (1092+ words) The U.S. Supreme Court added two opinions to its growing Second Amendment jurisprudence in June, when it ruled in the cases U.S. v. Hemani, holding that people cannot be denied guns because they unlawfully use controlled substances, and Wolford v. Lopez, expanding the right…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (381+ words) An Old Bridge man admitted in federal court this week to producing and possessing images and recordings of child pornography as part of a scheme in which he posed as a teenager on Snapchat to manipulate two minor victims. Daniel…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (615+ words) Authorities are searching for the person responsible for an early-morning shooting that killed a Millville woman and a Vineland man outside a 24-hour convenience store and gas station, leaving two families grieving and investigators looking for witnesses and surveillance footage…...