Camden County Prosecutor’s Office New Assistant Prosecutors
CNN, MS Now, Politico Sue Trump Over White House Ban
WASHINGTON — The three news organizations that President Donald Trump has barred from entering the White House filed a lawsuit against the administration on Monday.
CNN, MS Now and Politico wrote in a joint statement the suit is intended “to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes.”
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PHILADELPHIA, PA – This fall, something mysterious is galloping through the darkness of night from New York to Philadelphia. Hidden inside Newsroom Philadelphia, The Pumpkin Press is a limited-time fall transformation that brings together the origins of Newsroom, the legend of the Headless Horseman and Sleepy Hollow and Philadelphia’s connection to Edgar Allan Poe – all within a speakeasy already known for its book-lined walls, hidden entrance and a dark sense of discovery.
The connection hits especially close to home: Newsroom sits just blocks from the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, the only surviving Philadelphia residence of the legendary author. The six-week seasonal transformation brings glowing pumpkins, theatrical cocktails and gothic literary legends to life in a tale never before told. The Pumpkin Press is now open at 1102 Germantown Avenue in Northern Liberties, Philadelphia, PA 19123. Reservations are highly encouraged – and available on Resy.
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Washington, DC -Today, Congressman Van Drew, Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, held a hearing examining how 6,600 people who indicated they were not U.S. citizens were improperly registered to vote in New Jersey, with almost 400 later casting votes.
U.S. Real Median Household Income Reached Record High in 2025
U.S. real median household income was $87,460 in 2025, up 2.6% from the previous year and the highest on record since 1967 when the Census Bureau began tracking this measure.
Median household income is the midpoint where half of households have higher income, and half have lower income.
This School Year, One of the Best Things You Can Do for Your Teen Is Listen
By Dr. Regina Miranda
Back-to-school season can present challenges and opportunities as a parent. Relaxed summer schedules are replaced with classes, homework, and extracurriculars, and the transition to a new semester can be both exciting and stressful.
Fortunately, the school year is full of everyday moments parents and caregivers can use to check in on their kids. Whether it’s an early breakfast before school, the commute home, or an after-school FaceTime call from work, these small moments can let kids know we are thinking about them.
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TRENTON — Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Division of Criminal Justice today announced that a former Trenton Water Works (TWW) sample collector was sentenced to three years in prison for allegedly failing to collect water samples and falsifying water quality reports.
Cesar Lugo, 38, of Trenton, previously pleaded guilty to third-degree tampering with public records and violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). As part of the plea agreement, the State agreed to recommend a three-year prison sentence for both crimes of conviction to run concurrently, with a two-year parole ineligibility term.
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New Jersey’s Local Redevelopment & Housing Law (LHRL), N.J.S.A. 40A:12A-1 et seq., is a useful tool provided to municipalities in certain situations involving “blighted” and distressed properties and areas. Enacted in 1992, but preceded by less comprehensive statutes, it allows towns to bolster development by assembling parcels of land for sale to developers, demolishing or clearing what was there, sidestepping regular local zoning, and entering into agreements for favorable treatment. It permits the use of eminent domain to acquire properties, though most have been acquired voluntarily, and towns have usually not exercised this power. Sometimes it has also been applied to completely undeveloped properties such as wetlands.
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Woodbury, NJ – Michael A. Zappley, 69, of Westville, was sentenced to 12 years in state prison Friday by the Honorable Niki Arbittier, Judge of the Superior Court, for aggravated manslaughter in the 2016 death of Miguel Martinez III in Deptford.
According to documents filed in this case and statements made in open court: Family members reported Martinez missing on June 15, 2016. For several months detectives investigated, continually checking hospitals, phone records, social media records, and interviewing individuals, but were unable to locate Martinez. In January 2020, a witness came forward with details on how Martinez was killed in 2016, and how the body had been disposed of. With this information investigators applied for and executed search warrants for multiple properties on Fox Run Road in Deptford where they recovered 106 bones, later determined to be human remains.
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by Tyler Rogerson/Consumer Security
If you carry tap-to-pay cards, you could be one of thousands of Americans whose accounts are silently drained every day, while your wallet never leaves your pocket.
A new type of theft is sweeping the country, and most victims don’t realize they’ve been hit until their accounts are empty.
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