A man who allegedly ripped the head off of a seagull earlier this month at a New Jersey pier has struck a nerve with some people disturbed by the violence of the attack. Franklin Zeigler, 29, was charged with third-degree animal cruelty after witnesses reported the alleged decapitation on July 6 at Morey’s Pier in...
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., will resign from the Senate after significant pressure from Democrats to do so following a guilty verdict in his federal corruption case. A resignation letter from the senator was entered into the congressional record on Tuesday by Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who was acting as chair of the Senate. Menendez informed...
A tractor-trailer explosion and fire that closed lanes of a highway and forced evacuations of nearby homes was caught in wild video recorded by a passerby. The video starts out by showing a Clifton, New Jersey, fire department truck parked, with a firefigher walking away from flames, toward the truck when an explosion occurs, catching...
A Philadelphia mother’s loss of two of her children, who drowned in a pool over Memorial Day weekend, highlights the danger of breath-holding games in the water – even when played by children who are typically strong swimmers. Early last month, Brittney McWhite made the decision to pull 14-year-old Wadale and 11-year-old London Marie off...
A New Jersey 12U softball team’s hopes of reaching the Little League World Series were dashed last week after a controversial state championship game. The state championship between Toms River and Hanover Township was suspended due to lightning with Hanover leading 6-4. The game was stopped at the start of the sixth inning because of...
A kitten from New Jersey may be short one or two of her nine lives after she was rescued from a waste compactor just in the nick of time. Burlington County Regional Recycling Program employee Mark Motta was having a normal day at work on July 8 when he went to check the hydraulics of...
A New Jersey father was arrested for the death of his 8-week-old after the child died after being left in a vehicle on Monday when temperatures reached the mid 90s. Avraham Chaitovsky, 28, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after his daughter was left in the vehicle for “an extended period of...
Embattled Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez was found guilty of all charges in his lengthy corruption trial Tuesday, but that may not be enough to stop him from remaining in office or continuing his campaign for re-election in November. A jury found Menendez guilty of several charges, including extortion, bribery, conspiracy, obstruction of justice,...
The jury in the federal corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and two of his business associates, Fred Daibes and Wael Hana, found Menendez guilty on all charges after a grueling nine-week complex trial in Manhattan. Menendez pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he accepted an array of bribes in exchange for helping...
The Senate has only expelled 15 of its members in U.S. history. In fact the last was Sen. Jesse Bright (D-In.) in 1862. This is why a number of lawmakers are calling on Menendez to resign rather than be expelled. The reason? It ain’t easy. Here’s the process. It ain’t easy. DEMOCRATIC SEN. BOB MENENDEZ...
