N.J. man relishes site of a small paved alley, a big win 14 years in the making

Don’t fear the folkloric Jersey Devil. It’s the Trenton Terror that is real. But now fans of the new Professional Box Lacrosse Association team might be wondering whether the league was actually a myth.

The New Jersey Division on Civil Rights has launched an investigation into claims of discrimination in a Cumberland County municipal court, a state judiciary spokesman confirmed. Millville Municipal Court Judge Jason Witcher has repeatedly stated that Latino defendants are being denied the opportunity to appear virtually for hearings and are...

I’m new to living in Hudson County, but I must say I’m impressed by the well-greased machine of sleaze they have built here in Jersey City after attending my first meeting of the city council on Wednesday. It came one day after Councilwoman Amy DeGise, part of the...

The Passaic Valley Water Commission has put two more pieces in place as it moves forward with its long-delayed project to drain its three reservoirs on Garret Mountain and replace them with concrete tanks. The PVWC this month awarded a three-year, $300,000 contract to a Fairfield-based law firm, Castano Quigley,...

A Hackensack man who was formerly in custody at the Bergen County Jail has filed a lawsuit claiming was severely beaten and suffered a collapsed lung for refusing to wear a strait jacket. Valmir Xhemajli, 34, claims in court papers two sheriff’s officers assaulted him on Oct. 5, 2021, when...

Bret Schundler is thinking big. Really big. The former mayor of Jersey City and co-founder of BelovED Community Charter School and Empowerment Academy, has plans to build a massive six-acre campus that would house more than 2,000 students in four charter schools, including two state-of-the-art high schools.

At least one shell casing was recovered in a shooting incident early Tuesday morning just a couple blocks from the scene of a fatal shooting in the Jersey City Heights neighborhood Sunday night . Jersey City police were notified of shots fired in the area of Central Avenue and Grace...

Two New Jersey men ran a rooster fighting-operation out of a home in Atlantic County where other dead birds and neglected animals were also found, authorities said. State Police and the prosecutor’s office raided the home in Buena after getting an anonymous tip and found “dozens” of roosters trained to fight, equipment used to train the roosters to fight and more than 100 other birds living in unsanitary condition, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.

Catalytic converters were stolen from two transport vans in a Jersey City Medical Center lot Downtown, the second time the hospital has been victimized by precious metal thieves. Jersey City police responded to the hospital at 355 Grand St. just after 11 a.m. Monday and were told that the catalytic...

For years, a luxury development known as Admiral’s Walk, which bills itself as having “Edgewater’s only private waterfront walkway,” has been blocking off about 900 feet of Hudson River frontage for its own exclusive use. It refused to provide access for the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway,...

A former Jersey City police officer who was convicted of stealing money while questioning a man will likely face prison time when he is re-sentenced next month. Denzel Suitt was scheduled to be sentenced Friday, but the hearing in front of Hudson County Superior Court Judge John Young was postponed until Feb. 9 because of a scheduling conflict.

It’s hard to learn if you can’t see the blackboard. Every student in pre-K to fifth grade at Juan Pablo Duarte-Jose Julian Marti School No. 28 in Elizabeth who needs glasses is getting them — for free. The Elizabeth School District is working with Vision to Learn,...

A man was shot twice in an early morning incident on a Jersey City street Sunday, police said in radio transmissions. Police said in the transmissions that the the man’s injuries — he was reported shot in the groin and femur — were life-threatening. The victim was shot on Forrest Street between Bergen Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive at approximately 3 a.m.

A man was fatally shot on Summit Avenue in Jersey City Sunday night, the second homicide in the city in less than a week. The victim was identified by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office as 25-year-old Rafael Gomez, of Jersey City. The shooting occurred at approximately 9:30 p.m. in the Heights, between Irving and Poplar streets, about a block from Washington Park.

The state Department of Transportation is starting emergency work this month on four panels of a larger 70-year old retaining wall that supports four lanes of I-80 near the Delaware River. The wall — located on an “S-curve” section of I-80 east — is out of sight of drivers along...

A former teacher in the South Orange-Maplewood school district has filed a lawsuit claiming she was forced to resign after a transfer to teach special education without an aide caused her to have “crying spells” in the classroom. Sarah Barlow, 34, of West Orange, said in court papers...

Two teens were charged in an armed robbery and were linked to another one in Downtown Jersey City late Saturday and early Sunday morning, authorities said. There was also an armed robbery late Friday, on the West Side, in the which the victim was stabbed while trying to fight off his assailants, a city spokeswoman said.

Two women and a man were wounded in a shooting late Saturday night in Paterson. Paterson Police responded to the area of 10th Avenue and East 26th Street on a report of shots fired shortly after 11 p.m., according to a statement from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Upon...

Sasha Lemons had 19 points as Atlantic City rallied for a 43-41 road win at Egg Harbor Township. Quanirah Cherry-Montague chipped in with seven points in the win. Averie Harding had a dozen points and Lyla Brown added 11 for EHT.

Aaron Zalescik and Thomas Warms scored 20 points apiece as 10th-seeded South Hunterdon defeated seventh-seeded Warren Hills, 66-63, in the second round of the Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex Tournament in Washington. Brayden Hinman and Tanner McCaffrey each had nine points for South Hunterdon (8-9), which has now won five of its last six...