NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming. Hundreds of residents lined the rain-soaked streets of his hometown of Tenafly, waving American and Israeli flags and holding … Read more
Only one of the four detainees who escaped from an immigration detention center in New Jersey last week remains on the loose, according to federal authorities. The FBI’s Newark field office said Tuesday it is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of Andres Felipe Pineda Mogollon, who remains … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A New Jersey high school teacher has been charged with sexually assaulting a former student of hers. Alyssa Perry, 35, a teacher at Morris Knolls High School, is accused of sexually assaulting the then–17-year-old on two occasions at her Rockaway Township residence in February and March, according … Read more
The Associated Press has projected that U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) will win New Jersey’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, and that former state assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli will win New Jersey’s Republican gubernatorial primary – setting up a competitive race in November where President Donald Trump’s inroads with Garden State voters could be tested. Republicans are hoping … Read more
The three other candidates carved up the balance of the total vote: Representative Josh Gottheimer, of New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional District; Stephen Sweeney, a former State Senate president; and Sean Spiller, the president of the New Jersey Education Association. “I’m going to protect our rights — including a right to an abortion,” Ms. Sherrill told … Read more
One candidate for governor of New Jersey was arrested. Another won a coveted endorsement from President Trump. And the rules that for decades governed primaries in the state were deemed unconstitutional, shattering the traditional playbook for all the candidates hoping to be elected the next governor. At 6 a.m. on Tuesday, voters began casting their … Read more