A Middletown man shot and killed by police as he was holding his toddler son hostage early Wednesday morning had been arrested last year for a domestic incident involving the child’s mother, police and court documents show. Scott McAllister, 39, was living in Highlands last May when he was charged in an incident that led a… Read the rest of this entry »

MANVILLE — Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday blamed delays in finishing a comprehensive shoreline storm defense program on “extraordinarily selfish” residents who prize their picturesque views over the lives of their fellow citizens. Christie was addressing dozens of homeowners in the process of selling their homes to the state’s Blue Acres program, which uses bond funds… Read the rest of this entry »

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday the only way a Republican presidential contender can be viable in next year’s race will be to win at least one the first contests on the primary calendar, according to a published report. Christie, speaking to GOP donors during a New York City luncheon hosted by billionaire hedge-fund manager… Read the rest of this entry »

A U.S. traveler who recently returned from West Africa has died in a New Jersey hospital of Lassa Fever, the viral hemorrhagic fever rarely seen in the United States, the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced late Monday night. The unidentified traveler landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport May 17, flying from Liberia via… Read the rest of this entry »

And now for a Memorial Day history lesson. The American tradition of treating veterans badly started right here in New Jersey. The Pennsylvania Line of Continental Army — with their enlistments up — were forced to stay in service. When they walked off the job at Jockey Hollow in 1781, citing deplorable conditions and lousy pay,… Read the rest of this entry »

Hamilton Bovine I-295 Police and animal control officers chased a runaway cow through Hamilton and onto I-295 Friday morning before the animal was caught.

TRENTON — The cow that escaped onto Interstate 295 in Hamilton Friday morning – and later died – injured two people in Trenton shortly after escaping a slaughterhouse in the city’s Chambersburg… Read the rest of this entry »

“Colonoscopy” might just be the most uncomfortable yet necessary 11-letter word in the English language. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 132,700 new cases of colorectal cancer are expected this year, and its death toll will reach nearly 50,000. As things stand, it is considered the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men… Read the rest of this entry »