NEWARK, NJ — Prudential Financial will give $500,000 to local community groups that are most likely to know which neighborhoods and projects can best benefit from some unexpected cash.

The Prudential Community Grants Program is an initiative to support local, community-based projects that foster stability and growth in Newark. Working with Newark residents and organizations, ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ – The woman who is accused of trying to use a fake birth certificate to enroll at New Brunswick High School said she is focusing on her mental health after she “made a silly mistake.”

Hyejeong Shin, 29, told TAPinto New Brunswick in her first public comments since her arrest in January that she is also surprised that the episode has garnered international ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Members of the two unions representing thousands of Rutgers faculty members, graduate workers and others whose contracts expired at the end of June have voted to authorize a strike.

About 94% of Rutgers AAUP-AFT and Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union members voted “yes” in a 10-day email ballot asking if they would empower union leadership to call a strike if they ...

Princeton, NJ –Alright, not everyone is reading TAPinto's weekend updates. Not everyone knew that Princeton was making waves in the NCAA post-season tournament. And not everyone watched the No, 15 seeded Princeton on Saturday, March 18, against No. 7 seed Missouri.

So you missed another amazing, but not so dramatic, game in which Princeton knocked off the favorite, ...

Going into the tournament, Princeton University were the underdogs going to the first round of the NCAA tournament.

This was largely because of their opponent in one of the best teams in the country, the Arizona Wildcats. But everyone in the basketball world knows that when March comes, anybody can be beat.

Throughout the game, Princeton kept it tight with Arizona, matching each shot with a ...

NEW JERSEY – The National Weather Service (NOAA) has issued a Red Flag warning for Northeast New Jersey. The warning becomes effective at 10:00 am, Sunday morning and lasts until 8:00 pm Sunday evening.

In addition to Essex and Union Counties, the alert includes Bergen, Hudson, Passaic Counties. The warning covers the time period from 10:00am until 8:00pm.

NOAA lists the following ...

March 2, 2022 — TAPinto Rahway originally published this article in 2021 for Women's History Month. 

[This is the first part of a two-part account of a little-known historical moment in the women's suffrage movement that involved Rahway. TAPinto Rahway will, from time-to-time, as part of its "Rahway in History" series, include historical accounts and ...

UNION COUNTY, NJ ­— The county is considering a change to its official seal, which depicts Revolutionary War-era figure Hannah Caldwell being murdered by a British soldier. The idea, confirmed by the Union County Commissioners’ chairperson, has met with opposition from a historian based in Union Township, the area where the murder took place.

Hannah Caldwell was the wife of the ...

CAMDEN, NJ — Diana Jones stood at 9 a.m. on March 11 in front of the charred remains of 753 Walnut Street in Camden, the house where Martin Luther King Jr. stayed as a seminary student and where in 1950 he planned his first act of civil disobedience.

About six hours earlier, city firefighters had responded to a blaze at the structure, which activists had hoped to preserve as a civil ...