If you’re planning to take a drive this weekend to seek out the most colorful trees lining the landscape in New Jersey, there are some valuable tools to help you out. Several websites are posting maps — with information updated about once a week — show…
Today’s daily horoscope for Oct. 14, 2022
Group Dynamics of an Air Sign Trine Often group work ends up in a different place than was originally intended. That’s because when people get together, anything can happen. If there’s something you want the group to do, hold on to that intent no matte…
Man sentenced in killing of DoorDash driver, shooter remains at-large, prosecutors say
An accomplice in the killing of a DoorDash driver in Paterson was sentenced Thursday to ten years in prison, prosecutors said. Quadir Whitaker drove the suspected killer to and from the shooting that killed 43-year-old Petra Rhoden after she picked up …
Two from Secaucus-based real estate investment firm charged, one pleads guilty in $650M scheme: feds
The president and a top officer of a Secaucus-bases real estate investment company have been charged for their roles in a scheme to defraud more than 2,000 investors in a $650 million Ponzi scheme and conspiring to evade $26 million in tax liabilities,…
Man found in N.Y. after allegedly moving girlfriend’s body in suspicious death case, officials say
A Mercer County man charged in the death investigation of a Trenton woman — who authorities now say was his girlfriend — was apprehended Wednesday near Albany, New York, officials said. Alton Eubanks, 48, is charged with disturbing, moving or concealin…
N.J. woman indicted after she lent 16-year-old a car he crashed, killing a friend
A woman has been indicted on child endangerment charges after she allegedly lent a car to an unlicensed 16-year-old who crashed the vehicle in Salem County, killing his teen passenger. Tisha M. Gargon, 51, of Pittsgrove Township, was indicted this week…
Miss Manners: Shopper was disgusted to watch woman test the ripeness of blueberries in grocery store
DEAR MISS MANNERS: In the grocery store today, I saw a woman pick up a closed plastic container of fresh blueberries, open it, reach in barehanded, pick up a blueberry between her fingers and squeeze it. She then put the blueberry back and tested two m…
Ghost of Uncle Joe’s: Where music, costumes and raising funds for a good cause combine for Jersey City’s hottest Halloween season event | Testa
The Ghost of Uncle Joe’s, an annual Halloween costume ball and fundraiser for the Historic Harsimus & Jersey City Cemetery, has long been a signature event on the Jersey City calendar. This year’s 13th incarnation promises to be spookier, sexier, more …
Barriers to good nursing care keep on growing | Letters
As I read Amy Jastrzebski’s recent guest column about specialty nursing shortages (“NJ oncology nurse: ‘We’re gambling with people’s lives’ ”),I felt empathy as well as outrage. Being an oncology nurse for over 30 years, the last 20 years as an advance…
N.J. getting another $1.6B for road projects from Biden infrastructure law
New Jersey is getting another $1.6 billion in highway and bridge funding under President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure law, according to the Federal Highway Administration. The money is part of $59.9 billion heading to states, the District of …