January 17, 2024-Updated TRENTON, NJ (MERCER)–City firefighters braved frigid weather to battle a three-alarm blaze that destroyed four vacant rowhouses and damaged two other occupied attached buildings Wednesday evening (Jan. 17, 2024).  It was just after 8:35 p.m. Wednesday when multiple calls flooded the city’s 911 communications center reporting a fire in the area of Dye and…

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (MERCER)–Hamilton Police report on August,19, 2022, at approximately 10:34 p.m. Gerald Lane 52-years-old of Trenton NJ was operating his 2015 Subaru Legacy east bound on E. State Street when he lost control of his vehicle at E. State Street and Norway Avenue. Mr. Lane struck a parked vehicle on E. State Street…

January 23, 2024 — Updated EWING, NJ (MERCER)–Ewing police reported that around 7:11 p.m. tonight January 23, 2024, police responded to a structure fire with reported possible entrapment on Boone Avenue. Several police officers responded and observed flames coming from the residence. Officers attempted to make entry into the residence but were unsuccessful due to…

January 10, 2025 SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ (MIDDLESEX)–Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Chief Raymond Hayducka of the South Brunswick Police Department announced today that a homicide is currently under investigation in South Brunswick Township. Yesterday, January 9, 2025, at approximately 3:15 P.M., authorities responded to a residence on Route 27 in South Brunswick Township following…

May 20, 2024 TRENTON, NJ (MERCER)–A Trenton man was sentenced to 30 years in state prison for the aggravated sexual assault of a young girl, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri announced.  Taalibdin Shakir, 46, was sentenced by Mercer County Superior Court J. Adams Hughes on May 17.  A jury convicted Shakir guilty of first-degree…

June 30, 2024 Update from the National Park Service: BUSHKILL, PA–Yesterday around 7:00 p.m., June 29, 2024, NPS and volunteer search crews recovered the body of 24-year-old Jeysson Ariel Osorio-Reyes from the waters of the Delaware River near Milford Beach within Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. 24-year-old Jeysson Ariel Osorio-Reyes of Jackson Township, New…

January 2, 2025 EWING TOWNSHIP, NJ (MERCER)—Police say that on January 2, 2025, at approximately 3;00 p.m. Ewing Police Dispatch received multiple 9-1-1 calls  regarding a fire at 860 Lower Ferry Road, Cambridge Hall, a multi-unit apartment complex. Callers reported heavy smoke and flames coming from the front of the building. Ewing Township Fire Departments…

‘Uniform Public Expression Protection Act’ Establishes Expedited Process for Dismissal of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)  September 7, 2023 TRENTON – Governor Phil Murphy today signed the ‘Uniform Public Expression Protection Act’ to protect people from meritless lawsuits intended to intimidate them for exercising their free speech rights. Powerful entities and individuals often use lawsuits…

Vivian M. Harrell, 37, of Trenton was identified in a video posted on social media allegedly covering an 8-week-old infant’s face, possibly blocking the infant’s airway, speaking in vulgar, derogatory language, and also pushing the infant’s head. May 15, 2024 TRENTON, NJ (MERCER)–Trenton Police say that on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, Trenton Police Department was…

June 9, 2024 JACKSON, NJ (OCEAN)–Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Jackson Township Police Chief Matthew Kunz announced that the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit-Vehicular Homicide Squad and the Jackson Township Police Department are currently investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash involving a bicyclist that occurred on Farmingdale Road at approximately 12:00…