A NJ man is accused of impersonating a cop and threatening hookers with jail time if they wouldn't give him free sex. Warren D. Taylor, 32, was caught after police tracked down a cell phone number he had given to one of the women he allegedly attacked; Taylor was allegedly taking a page from real cops, and trying to become her pimp. more ›

The northern New Jersey assistant principal who has been accused of planting a hidden camera to videotape boys showering at a NJ Catholic high school where he volunteered for nearly three years has resigned from his job, more than a month after he was first arrested. Patrick Lott had been placed on an unpaid leave of absence as an assistant principal at the Bernardsville Middle School after being arrested last December, but it took until this week for Lott to officially step down amidst 22 counts of invasion of privacy (one for each victim), and more than two dozen counts of child endangerment. So despite "several" videos of nude teenagers showering being found at Lott's house, he was still given a gentleman's period to gracefully step aside. more ›

Police are searching for a man who allegedly hit his three-year-old daughter with a brick in Brick, NJ. Edward Smith, 25, destroyed the child’s mother’s cellphone and stole her car after the Saturday night incident, and has been on the run since. Authorities believe Smith wasn't intentionally trying to hurt the little girl, who lost a tooth and needed stitches for a cut on her upper lip. more ›

Early Saturday morning, 22 show horses were killed in a massive barn fire in northern New Jersey. Authorities say the fire, which they believe was an accident, broke out at the Heritage Acres farm in Lafayette; by the time firefighters arrived just before 2 a.m., the barn was already engulfed in flames. The owners, who did not have insurance, are devastated: "We’re just going to sell our property. It was our business and we’re too old to start over," 73-year-old Betty Hahn told the Star-Ledger. more ›

NJ Governor Chris Christie discussed the "New Jersey Comeback" during his State of the State today and seemingly laid the cornerstone to his 2016 campaign: He announced that he wanted 10 percent tax reductions for all Garden State residents. more ›

Last week, NJ Governor Chris Christie postponed his State of the State address after a GOP leader and friend died at the Statehouse. Now, he's ready to give his speech at 3 p.m. (you can see it live here), and he's been trying to get people (well, political reporters) excited by sharing his movie trailer about the "Jersey Comeback" which is less amusing than Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City video but possibly as surreal: more ›

Did you know that if you keep your car running while you run into a store, someone might just steal it? This is what happened to a NJ woman who visited a gas station's mini mart in her 2011 BMW. more ›

A week after Philadelphia authorities released a video seeking suspects who beat a Rangers fan, a NJ man has turned himself in. Dennis Veteri, 32 (pictured), was charged with two counts each of aggravated assault, conspiracy aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment, according to Philly.com. more ›

NJ Assemblyman Alex DeCroce died at the NJ Statehouse last night, after participating in the Legislature's final voting session. DeCroce, who represented Morris County and was the Republican minority leader since 2003, "collapsed and died in a bathroom at 11 p.m." according to the Star-Ledger. more ›

NJ authorities say that they arrested a man who forced a woman into prostitution—and they found out because the woman was able to send a Facebook message to her brother for help. The Record reports, "The victim’s smart phone did not have service to call out when she was being held, but she was able to access Facebook and contact her brother when she was in a Wi-Fi hotspot...The brother, who lives in Florida, contacted an agency in Little Egg Harbor, where his family lives." more ›

The National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration are beginning their investigation of the fatal small plane crash that claimed the lives of five people yesterday. Investment banker Jeffrey Buckalew was flying a single-engine turboprop plane, with his wife Corinne, their young children Jackson and Meriwether and the family dog, plus his business colleague Rakesh Chawla, from Teterboro Airport in NJ to Atlanta when their plane suddenly made an "uncontrolled descent," apparently exploding, and eventually hit part of Interstate 287 in Harding, NJ. A nearby homeowner said to the NY Times, "This plane was very loud because it was so close, and its engines would stop and start. And the pilot was trying to rev it to keep the engines going." more ›

Tip this cable guy! NBC New York reports that a Cablevision technician was on a call at a Hopatcong, NJ home when he discovered a bear sleeping in the basement. more ›

The Nets really have the worst luck: first, Dwight Howard reportedly demanded a trade to the team last week, getting everyone excited about the prospect of a truly worthy crosstown basketball rivalry. The Nets understandably put all their other plans and trades in limbo to focus on him. Then the team was accused of tampering. Then the Chris Paul trade blew up, and the Lakers set their sights on Howard. Now, even as Howard has given the Nets hope by listing them as one of the four teams he'll sign a contract extension with, he's reportedly considering staying in Orlando after all. What's next? Is billionaire owner and Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov going to have a mysterious "accident?" more ›

New Jersey police fatally shot an escaped prisoner who broke loose from police custody yesterday afternoon. The suspect, who has not been identified yet, was arrested earlier yesterday in Garfield for domestic abuse. Diana Copin told ABC that her family watched as police chased the prisoner: "They saw the cops chasing someone in the backyard," she said. more ›

A NJ woman who is accused of injecting a young man's penis with silicone as part of a penis enhancing procedure has been charged in his death. Kasia Rivera, 34, was arrested on manslaughter charges and unauthorized practice of medicine in the death of 22-year-old Justin Street. According to the medical examiner, Street died from a silicone embolism one day after the procedure. more ›

When someone posted a subjective map of New Jersey to reddit, it went viral, with its depictions of where "Executives living in mansions with Mercedes Benzes," "Sad black people and corruption," "The Hill People," "Ghetto in the woods," "Pretty Much Alabama" and more were. Then Rutgers University graduate and current part time research assistant Joe Steinfeld stepped up and claimed credit. He tells the Star-Ledger, "I meant it as a joke. It’s tongue-in-cheek. It’s meant to be silly, meant to be fun." more ›

A 64-year-old Bulgarian immigrant and Hoboken, NJ resident is fighting the local bureaucracy over what he calls an "unconstitutional and irrelevant ticket" for disorderly conduct on a PATH train. And it stems from looking at a heavily tattooed woman. more ›

The New Jersey couple who sparked a controversy after they named their kids after famous Nazi leaders say that NJ child welfare officials took custody of their newborn 17 hours after his birth. Nazi-sympathizers Heath and Deborah Campbell say that the doctor who delivered their newborn Hons Campbell late Wednesday called the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), who then took the baby without any court order: "It's basically a kidnapping, but they use different terms," said Heath Campbell. more ›

A NJ mother is extremely unhappy about the hubbub over her middle schooler's suspension, which she believes is related to her child's Confederate Flag clothing. So the next step is obviously threatening a lawsuit: Jane West tells the Times of Trenton that she wants "the school to formally apologize to her daughter, rescind her suspension and grant the teen permission to attend school outside the district." West warns, "If I can’t get those things I’m suing." more ›

A NJ mother claims that her daughter was suspended because she was wearing a Confederate Flag shirt—and now the mother wants to take her child out of the Melvin Kreps Middle School. Jane West told the Times of Trenton that a vice principal asked if she could bring a change of clothes for her daughter, "The Indian kids wear their turbans. The Jewish kids wear their yarmulkes. That’s their birthright. I told him that Torri was born in Virginia. That flag is her heritage and I’m not telling her to take it off. He said ‘I guess she’ll have to suffer the consequences.’" And consequences are not fun—a Staten Island boy who wore a Confederate flag shirt because he loves history was allegedly abused by classmates who thought it was racist. more ›

A gasoline tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of fuel crashed into a minivan and burst into flames last night just after 9 p.m. on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carlstadt. NBC New York reports that the accident occurred near exit 18W in the northbound E-ZPass lane of the Turnpike, and that the tanker caught fire soon after the crash. The ensuing fireball could be seen for miles in the November darkness, but should not be interpreted as some sort of apocalyptic symbolic of America's self-destructive addiction to fossil fuels. Here's video: more ›

Remember Baby Hitler? Then three-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, as well as his siblings JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, were taken from his parents by NJ child welfare officials in 2009 shortly after his parents had tried to get him a personalized birthday cake from ShopRite that read, "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler." Two years later, the Nazi-sympathizing parents are still trying to get their kids back: "The judge and [the Division of Youth and Family Services] told us that there was no evidence of abuse and that it was the names! They were taken over the children's names," Heath Campbell told NBC 10 News in Philadelphia. more ›

Police are searching for four thieves who tried to rob a 7-Eleven in New Jersey Friday morning. And though they didn't pull off stealing the store's ATM machine as they had hoped, they did leave a mark—by leaving the clerk in the freezer. more ›