It has been hailed as a potential model of police reform, a crime-ridden city in southern New Jersey that disbanded its force and rebuilt it from the ground up.The Camden Police Department underwent the unprecedented overhaul in 2013, leading to sharp reductions in crime and a focus on improved community relations. Seven years later, with…
New cases of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania have been traced to people attending house parties at the Jersey Shore, officials said. The Bucks County Health Department in suburban Philadelphia has reported 33 new coronavirus cases, including 11 that can be traced back to one New Jersey resident “who attended multiple house gatherings at the shore during…
After James Micioni died in March at age 97, a collection of rare and valuable sports memorabilia was discovered among his possessions in the attic of his home, including a hand-signed baseball card of former New York Yankees great Babe Ruth.Micioni was from Boonton, N.J., and was known as "Uncle Jimmy." He had a collection of more than 1,000…
A New Jersey corrections officer has been suspended and a FedEx employee was fired Tuesday after video showed them mocking the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis.Footage first surfaced on Monday of the two reenacting Floyd's death as a crowd of protesters marched in a Black Lives Matter…
A New Jersey State trooper fatally shot a black man during a struggle after the man was pulled over for allegedly driving 110 miles per hour, the state attorney general's office says.
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…