News Around New Jersey
By TAPINTORARITAN BAY STAFF
August 9, 2024
Former Sayreville Middle School teacher and wrestling coach John Denuto has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing minors after admitting to inappropriate sexual misconduct, according to multiple media reports. Denuto, 47, of Spotswood, pleaded guilty to endangering the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Bryan Mora spent part of his summer helping school children color panels that, when assembled into a mural, revealed full-bloom red, orange and yellow roses. The students were invited to add personal touches, so, words like “community” and “people” can be spotted in and around ...
MOUNTAINSIDE - Union Catholic alumna Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone delivered a dominating performance at the Paris Olympics in the 400-meter hurdles on Thursday, August 8, when she became the first female hurdler in history to repeat as Olympic champion, and did so by completing the race in 50.37 ...
Registration is open for the New Jersey Senior Olympic Games, which will be held for the seventh consecutive year in Woodbridge from Sept. 6-8, 2024. Athletes age 50 and over as of 12/31/24 are eligible. There are male and female competitions in all events. The age divisions are: 50-54, 55-59, ...
Leer en Español NEW BRUNSWICK – The distraught young woman’s body was dangling from the side of the Morris Street Parking Deck. She had tied one end of a rope around her neck and secured the other end to a guard rail on the second level of the deck. Tommy Williamson and Andre Penn, two ...
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ - Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone moved one step closer to defending her title with a very comfortable victory in her semifinal heat of the women's 400-meter hurdles on Tuesday at the Olympics at Stade de France in Paris. McLaughlin-Levrone, the world record-holder who turns 25 on ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – There’s a gentle hum coming from the air conditioning vents in the back of this late-model Chrysler Pacifica as it cruises up Suydam Street, passing a guy walking with headphones and a wearing a sweat-soaked Yankees cap. The van turns onto Livingston Avenue, where it passes a kid ...
BAYONNE - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has approved the sale of land to the city of Bayonne for the construction of a ferry terminal. This comes after Mayor Jimmy Davis met with the heads of the state agency seeking to change the agreement that was made in 2020 to lease the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The thousands of members of the city’s Mexican community will have access to free health care services, thanks to a partnership between the Mexican Consulate on George Street and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. A formal agreement was signed Wednesday to create the ...
WAYNE – For the second time in as many months, Wayne police have arrested a package thief who stole a delivery of “multiple cell phones” from a home in Wayne - according to Wayne Police Public Information Officer Det. Capt. Dan Daly. RELATED STORY: Wayne Police Lie in Wait and Nab Porch Pirates ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Detective Virginia Lopez looked into the eyes of a little girl with pigtails and told her that she, too, could one day be a member of the New Brunswick Police Department. Then Lopez turned to the other 25 elementary school students sitting at the table. “You can do anything you ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Councilwoman Suzanne Sicora-Ludwig pleaded not guilty Wednesday in her first court appearance since being charged with DWI and other charges stemming from a one-vehicle accident on March 8. Highland Park Municipal Judge Edward Herman, who will hear the case, ended the 9-minute ...
WASHINGTON – The recall of Boar’s Head deli meats that began last week has been expanded to approximately 7 million pounds of deli meat and poultry products. The updated recall issued by Boar’s Head Provisions Co. in Jarratt, Virginia, includes additional “ready to eat” meat and poultry ...
NEWARK — The memories of fallen firefighter captains Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were fresh in the minds of family, colleagues and friends on Tuesday morning as the city dedicated two Ironbound firehouses in their honor. Family members pulled black cloths from plaques ...
Leer en español NEWARK — The memories of fallen firefighter captains Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. were fresh in the minds of family, colleagues and friends on Tuesday morning as the city dedicated two Ironbound firehouses in their honor. Family members pulled black ...
PHILADELPHIA — Pharmaceutical retailer Rite Aid is closing 42 more of its New Jersey stores, among 699 nationwide being shuttered after the company filed for bankruptcy in October 2023. Among the New Jersey locations to close are two in Middlesex County, at 366 George St. in downtown New ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Rutgers will be well represented at the Paris Olympics with five former Scarlet Knights – Kahleah Copper, Arella Guirantes, Casey Murphy, Sebastian Rivera and Rudy Winkler – competing in four sports at the 2024 Games. Denise Reddy, an All-American women’s soccer player, will ...
Leer en Espanol WOODBRIDGE — Taking NJ Transit's train and busses is going to cost us more. This is after NJ Transit’s board of directors approved a $3 billion operating budget on Wednesday, expected to sharply raise fares for riders. This is reportedly the agency’s biggest-ever operating ...
TRENTON, NJ/WASHINGTON, DC — New Jersey residents will soon be able to utilize IRS Direct File, which will let them submit their federal tax returns for free. Gov. Phil Murphy and U.S. Department of the Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo announced Wednesday that more than 1.3 million New ...
TRENTON, NJ — Legislation that Gov. Phil Murphy says "is a monumental step toward building a health care system that is more affordable and more accessible for families all across New Jersey" was signed into law Monday in Trenton. The Louisa Carman Medical Debt Relief Act protects New Jerseyans ...
NEW JERSEY — Some businesses and travelers in New Jersey are feeling the impact of a global technology outage. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) said businesses and banks have been affected and flights are grounded. Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says Friday's outage happened when it deployed a faulty ...
NEWARK — Democrat district leaders from three counties decided on Thursday that LaMonica McIver will be the party’s candidate on the November ballot for the full term to replace the late U.S. Rep. Donald M. Payne Jr. in the House of Representatives. McIver, the Newark City Council president, was ...
NEWARK — Two months after City Council said it “strongly opposes” the construction of a methane-gas-fired power plant in the Ironbound, the state Department of Environmental Protection announced on Thursday its approval of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission’s application to build a backup power ...
JERSEY CITY - New Jersey’s senior U.S. Senator, Bob Menendez, was convicted in a federal bribery case on Tuesday. Menendez was found guilty of 16 bribery, fraud and extortion charges that prosecutors say reflect his actions to sell his office to foreign nationals and local businessmen in exchange ...
SPARTA – A New Jersey student performing on the “America’s Got Talent” stage will be aired on Tuesday, July 16 at 8 p.m. Mia Soleil Sanchez began the audition process for AGT in November with “numerous video submissions and an in-person audition in New York City. “After months of effort and a ...
HOBOKEN - The Hoboken City Council passed a resolution officially designating the common tern as the honorary bird of Hoboken. Common Terns are a species of migratory seabirds that have been nesting on Hoboken’s Pier 11 during the summer months since 2013. This designation comes after years ...
JERSEY CITY - In the more than three months since the demolition of the Pep Boys auto store on JFK Boulevard in Journal Square, union members have dutifully stood outside the construction site with a 10-foot high inflatable rat – a symbolic protest against development companies that do not use ...
PISCATAWAY – Copies of the original group picture featuring students in Piscataway High School’s Muslim Student Association posing with the Palestinian flag at a yearbook photo shoot will be distributed to club members by the end of the summer. District superintendent Dr. Frank Ranelli made the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK - Donna Gustafson assembled a collection of George Segal’s life-sized sculptures that cast the New Jersey artist as an ordinary man with the gift to capture universal themes of isolation and disconnection. She collected 220 objects, blending archival materials with works by ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – Tears streaked down Adalberto Gaytán Florez’s face as he gently wrapped his 91-year-old father in a long embrace that was 18 years in the making. Gaytán Florez had not been able to hug, kiss and whisper "I love you" directly in the ear of Juvencio Gaytán Jiminez since making the ...