New Jersey, a state where property taxes and the cost of living rank among the highest in the nation, is hemorrhaging taxpayer cash as more public workers file lawsuits against the government agencies that employ them. … More Taxpayers footing $100 million bill for public worker lawsuits each year
Ten years later, no answers in the serial killings of four women. … More Getting away with murder: the Atlantic City prostitute killings 10 years later
Fifteen years ago, nearly 3,000 Americans lost their lives in the worst terrorist attack in our nation’s history. More than 700 of those victims were from New Jersey. Most perished at the World Trade Center. Others were on hijacked planes. At least two worked at the Pentagon. Their memories live on. With today’s anniversary, NJ … More The Faces of Sept. 11
Anthony Appolonia spent five years in prison for killing cats. Now living in Delaware, he’s allegedly adopting cats again. But where are they? (After this ran, the Delaware Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation.) … More He tortured and killed 19 cats. Now some fear he’s at it again
The top official at Northern State Prison in Newark has been demoted and reassigned after failing to report to the Department of Corrections that one of his officers briefly lost a service weapon, NJ Advance Media has learned. … More Top prison official demoted for failing to report missing gun, sources say
A retired teacher accused of sexually abusing one of her teenage students in the 1990s — an allegation chronicled in a two-part series in The Star-Ledger last year — will not face criminal charges “at this time,” a prosecutor said Thursday, adding that the investigation will remain open, though inactive, indefinitely. … More No charges ‘at this time’ in teacher-student sex investigation
It was ink-black in the vast underground water tank. And biting cold. The only escape, a panel in the ceiling, loomed 5 feet above the water level, far too high to reach. Worse, there was no ladder. In that frigid subterranean cavern at the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, Geetha Angara — scientist, wife … More Death in the water tank
It was a year of high political drama and wrenching loss, of financial freefall for one city and financial rescue for another, of relentless winter weather and shockingly bad behavior by celebrities who represent New Jersey on the national stage. We hosted football’s grandest show and witnessed the sport’s ugly underbelly in a high school … More 2014: The Year in Review
An exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the crew that used technology, sophistication and brute force to carry out home invasions across the country. … More Inside the national home invasion ring — and how authorities brought it down
It was something about the way she flopped into the chair and cried, all raw innocence and seething emotion, that sent Jim Cunneely back. The 15-year-old girl was having a problem with her father. When she rushed into Cunneely’s empty classroom at Kittatinny Regional High School that morning in 2006, she was looking to vent. She was looking for consolation. Cunneely, a French teacher, said he felt like he was looking at himself. … More The Cycle of Sexual Abuse (Part 2): A Teacher’s Betrayal
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