Law & Justice Top Stories
By GRACE MCCULLUM
January 14, 2026
MADISON, NJ — The Madison Joint Court, which serves Madison, Morris Township, Chatham Borough and Chatham Township, reported a year-over-year rise in overall caseload during 2025, with officials citing increases largely tied to traffic and parking matters and disorderly persons offenses.During a ...
DOYLESTOWN, PA—At a Wednesday morning press conference, the new Bucks County Sheriff Danny Ceisler had a message for the 50,000-plus members of the local immigrant community: “You are safe to call 911, you are safe to report crime and you are safe to come into this courthouse and testify.”Ceisler ...
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - A 35-year-old mother of two boys, ages 5 and 7, has been charged with their murder after their father discovered their bodies in a bedroom of their home on Shell Court when he returned home from work Tuesday at 6:45 p.m., according to Somerset County Prosecutor John P.
HILLSBOROUGH, NJ - A 35-year-old mother of two boys, ages 5 and 7, has been charged with their murder after their father discovered their bodies in a bedroom of their home on Shell Court when he returned home from work Tuesday at 6:45 p.m., according to Somerset County Prosecutor John P.
TRENTON, NJ – Legislation that would outlaw the possession or sale of machine gun conversion devices is now awaiting action by Governor Murphy after it passed the State Legislature on Monday. The measure, sponsored by Senators Linda Greenstein (D-Mercer/Middlesex) and Senator Troy Singleton ...
TRENTON, NJ – Legislation that would outlaw the possession or sale of machine gun conversion devices is now awaiting action by Governor Murphy after it passed the State Legislature on Monday. The measure, sponsored by Senators Linda Greenstein (D-Mercer/Middlesex) and Senator Troy Singleton ...
EDISON, NJ - Numerous news outlets have confirmed that Justice Deas was the 17-year-old who was killed at her residence at the Greenwood Townhouses on Grove Avenue on Saturday. The suspect, a 17-year-old from Plainfield, is being held at the Middlesex County Juvenile Detention Center awaiting a ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ — Governor Phil Murphy has signed Executive Order No. 411, restoring jury service eligibility to more than 350,000 New Jersey residents who were previously disqualified because of certain criminal convictions under state law.Under prior law, individuals convicted of an indictable ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - On Sunday, January 11, Governor Phil Murphy signed a historic executive order at New Hope Baptist Church of East Orange restoring the right to serve on a jury to more than 350,000 New Jersey residents who have completed their sentences.The order ends a long-standing policy that ...
Basking Ridge, NJ — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were reported to have conducted enforcement activity in Somerset County on Monday, with several people reportedly removed from vehicles, according to local accounts.Reports indicate that ICE personnel were seen in Warren ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - On Sunday, January 11, Governor Phil Murphy signed a historic executive order at New Hope Baptist Church of East Orange restoring the right to serve on a jury to more than 350,000 New Jersey residents who have completed their sentences.The order ends a long-standing policy that ...
TRENTON, NJ – Legislation that would outlaw the possession or sale of machine gun conversion devices is now awaiting action by Governor Murphy after it passed the State Legislature on Monday. The measure, sponsored by Senators Linda Greenstein (D-Mercer/Middlesex) and Senator Troy Singleton ...
BLOOMINGDALE, NJ - The Bloomingdale Police Department has announced the arrest of a Newark man in connection with a December 29, 2025, commercial burglary. According to police, officers responded to a business establishment in the borough after receiving a report of a burglary that occurred after ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - On Sunday, January 11, Governor Phil Murphy signed a historic executive order at New Hope Baptist Church of East Orange restoring the right to serve on a jury to more than 350,000 New Jersey residents who have completed their sentences.The order ends a long-standing policy that ...
WAYNE, NJ — A fight that broke out inside the Willowbrook Mall food court on the evening of December 30, 2025 and ended with a gunshot, a multi-jurisdictional police response and mall evacuation, has now led to seven total arrests — three the night it happened and four more after a wide-ranging ...
CAMDEN – The New Jersey Attorney General and Department of Environmental Protection on Monday filed suit against EMR USA Holdings Inc. for at least 12 major fires over five years at the company's Camden Waterfront South scrap metal yards and are demanding changes at the properties."These fires have ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – A quiet River Road neighborhood became the site of a devastating domestic massacre on Monday, January 5, 2026, claiming the lives of an elderly Barnegat couple and their daughter in a triple homicide.The Middlesex County Prosecutors provided the following information. The victims ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – A quiet River Road neighborhood became the site of a devastating domestic massacre on Monday, January 5, 2026, claiming the lives of an elderly Barnegat couple and their daughter in a triple homicide.The Middlesex County Prosecutors provided the following information. The victims ...
MORRISTOWN, NJ — Morristown Mayor Tim Dougherty on Monday, January 12, 2026, issued a public appeal for immigration attorneys willing to provide pro bono assistance to residents taken into federal custody during a weekend immigration enforcement operation in town.In a video message recorded from ...
TRENTON, NJ – A Hunterdon County man was arraigned after being indicted on a charge of possessing videos and images of child sexual abuse material, Senior Counsel Philip Lamparello announced.David Tuytjens, 70, of Tewksbury Township, was charged in a one-count indictment with possession of child ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ - Nearly 300 people filled City Hall Plaza in Jersey City on Sunday to protest against recent raids by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).The protests in Jersey City, and across the US, came just days after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good in Minnesota, a ...
NEW JERSEY — A Middletown Township man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for promoting child sexual abuse material on the dark web.According to court documents, Declan Golden, 39, accessed and actively engaged with a website on the Tor ...
NEW JERSEY — A Middletown Township man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for promoting child sexual abuse material on the dark web.According to court documents, Declan Golden, 39, accessed and actively engaged with a website on the Tor ...
NEW JERSEY — A Middletown Township man has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release for promoting child sexual abuse material on the dark web.According to court documents, Declan Golden, 39, accessed and actively engaged with a website on the Tor ...
TRENTON, N.J. — A Mexican national most recently living in East Brunswick has admitted to distributing cocaine and unlawfully possessing firearms, federal authorities announced.According to a press release issued by the United States Attorney's Office District of New Jersey on January 9, 2025, ...
NEWARK, N.J. – A Union man was one of three men charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud connected to theft of mail from collection boxes and postal vehicles across Northern New Jersey, the United States Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey announced on Thursday.Tashon Ragan, a/k/a “Ta,” ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - Nearly six years after the fatal shooting of an East Orange man outside his home, county prosecutors are renewing their appeal for information, offering a reward of up to $10,000 in hopes of advancing a case that has remained unsolved.The victim, Laquan Nowlin, 32, an East Orange ...
HUDSON COUNTY, NJ - A nearly 18-month investigation into the possession of child sex abuse material led to the arrest of a Bayonne man on Wednesday.In a statement, Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello announced that Anthony Santiago, 28, had been charged with Endangering the Welfare of a ...
EAST ORANGE, NJ - Nearly six years after the fatal shooting of an East Orange man outside his home, county prosecutors are renewing their appeal for information, offering a reward of up to $10,000 in hopes of advancing a case that has remained unsolved.The victim, Laquan Nowlin, 32, an East Orange ...
HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — Jersey City non-profit and community-based organization Caring and Capable Hands has been awarded a $52,000 grant from the Hudson County Division of Health and Human Services.The funding, which was secured thanks to the leadership of Commissioner Jerry Walker, will support ...