News Around New Jersey
By MATT KADOSH
May 13, 2024
NEWARK — A resident who is suing the City Council over being banned from two council meetings after she publicly interrupted the business administrator will have the opportunity to respond to the city’s arguments against her case. Superior Court Judge Stephen L. Petrillo on Monday dismissed ...
PISCATAWAY – There were moments for Briella Payami when the course load seemed overwhelming, when spending long hours staring at a computer screen became unbearable for the engineering student who sometimes suffers the lingering effects of three concussions. On those days, Mom always knew what ...
PISCATAWAY – About 75 Rutgers students quietly walked out of Sunday’s commencement ceremony at SHI Stadium, apparently in protest of the university’s financial ties with companies connected to Israel. The students, some of whom wore keffiyeh and scarves emblazoned with the word “Palestine,” left ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – All the pomp and circumstance. All the caps and gowns. All the hugs and laughs. Sunday’s annual commencement ceremony typically affords Rutgers a football-stadium-sized stage to beam with scarlet pride, boast of its many accomplishments and dispense a bunch of degrees, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – A Jewish freshman at Rutgers whose face was displayed on Pro-Palestinian fliers that were posted outside a dorm room and throughout Demarest Hall has filed a lawsuit against the university charging discrimination. Cory Rothbort, the Essex County-based attorney representing Rivka ...
NEWARK — Keith J. Colon, a 21-year-old psychology major at Rutgers University, is headed to the National Golden Gloves Competition in Detroit this weekend. The trip follows his success in the 125-pound category at the New Jersey Golden Gloves Championship on March 23. “Overall, it was a great ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Grace Adu was choking back tears of happiness and clutching the lifetime achievement award she had just received for her 28 years of service when someone asked her what is the best part of being a nurse at Saint Peter’s University Hospital. “Making patients happy,” said Adu, a ...
NEWARK — A local law requiring that mattresses be wrapped in plastic before curbside disposal got the City Council’s approval on Wednesday amid questions about how the new regulation will be enforced. East Ward Councilman Michael Silva said absentee landlords have been putting out mattresses, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers President Jonathan Holloway on Monday defended his decision to negotiate with pro-Palestinian protesters who camped on Voorhees Mall last week. “People have said we should have not engaged in discussion with the protesters,” Holloway said during a special meeting of the ...