New Jersey's best country roads: Route 565
An occasional travelogue of Jersey byways Welcome to "Backroads, New Jersey" -- an occasional photo essay by Star-Ledger columnist Mark Di Ionno. Today, we travel the 17 miles of Route 565 in Sussex...
View ArticleWild West theme park where employee was shot denied gun dealer license
Cowboy theme park was the site of 2006 accidental shooting TRENTON -- The owner of the Wild West City amusement park can't renew a retail firearms dealer's license in the wake of a bizarre accidental...
View ArticleMotive still unclear in shotgun deaths of 3 family members from N.J.
Sandy and Stephenie Mazzella, along with Sandy's mother, Elaine, were killed on March 25, 2016. WAKE FOREST, N.C. - Family and friends of a mother, father and grandmother shot to death by a neighbor...
View ArticleMontague barn fire spurs response from fire companies in 3 states
No one was injured in the blaze. MONTAGUE -- A barn fire on River Road prompted the response of 15 fire departments from New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, New Jersey Herald reported. Assisting...
View ArticleVintage photos of things delivered to your home in N.J.
Home delivery has begun to make a comeback in the 21st century. I was a "paperboy" as a youth. It was a position eagerly sought by many of us in those days; being able to perform what certainly was an...
View ArticleLab tech who faked result in drug case, mishandled 11 other cases, report says
Kamalkant Shah worked as a lab technician for the State Police laboratory in Little Falls for more than a decade. Nearly 8,000 criminal cases are under review after a State Police lab tech was...
View ArticleNo April fool's joke: Stormy weather could bring some snow to N.J.
Wind gusts could get as strong as 60 mph this weekend, forecasters say. Buckle up, New Jersey! April is getting off to a rocky start, with an unsettled weather pattern that's expected to deliver...
View ArticleNew Jersey gun shop owners on front line of debate | Di Ionno
'We're not merchants of death.' One in an occasional series of Mark Di Ionno columns on gun culture in New Jersey When Frank Caso was growing up on Danforth Avenue in Jersey City, his grandfather...
View ArticleN.J. pets in need: April 4, 2016
Thousands of dogs and cats are in need of adoption in northern and central New Jersey. Here is this week's collection of some of the thousands of dogs and cats in need of adoption in northern and...
View ArticleIt's Opening Day ... for the N.J. political season
Democratic and GOP congressional hopefuls have until Monday afternoon to file petitions declaring their candidacy. WASHINGTON -- Democratic and Republican congressional candidates have until 4 p.m....
View ArticleKnow your Jersey geography? Take this quiz
The Garden State is full of quirky, illogical geographical entities South Hackensack, which is located in three different parts of Begen County, is less than three-quarters of a square mile in...
View ArticleDriver flees after high-speed chase ends in Wantage crash, cops say
Cops are looking for a driver who fled after he crashed a stolen vehicle in Wantage during a police chase. WANTAGE -- Police are on the hunt for a driver who crashed a stolen vehicle near the...
View ArticleFranklin man faces drug, endangerment charges
A Franklin man neglected a child while dealing heroin, police say. FRANKLIN -- An investigation into drug dealing near Main Street and Rutherford Avenue led to the arrest of a local man on multiple...
View ArticleRecord cold temp set Wednesday in South Jersey
Weather stations in 13 New Jersey counties hit 20 degrees or below Wednesday morning, and one city in South Jersey broke a daily temperature record. The sub-freezing air that returned to New Jersey...
View ArticleVintage aerial photos of N.J.
Before Google Earth, aerial photos were the only time regular folks got a first-hand, bird's eye view of land and sea without flying. I freely admit that I'm not a frequent flyer. And, I can honestly...
View ArticleTeens get 4 years for plotting to kill teen's mom
The teens were from Montague and Port Jervis, N.Y., authorities said. NEWTON -- Two teenagers were each sentenced to four years in juvenile detention for plotting to kill one of their mothers,...
View ArticleStage set for snow on Saturday as cold air moves into N.J.
A storm system is expected to brush New Jersey on Saturday, bringing some snow and rain to the Garden State and frigid morning temperatures. Watch video The calendar clearly says it's April 8, but...
View ArticleCorrections officer charged in steroid conspiracy gets PTI, resigns position
Sussex County corrections officer Kevin Cole, 41, of Andover, was arrested last year for conspiracy to possess anabolic steroids and possession of a hypodermic needle, authorities said. MORRISTOWN --...
View ArticleWantage man admits fleeing police while drunk, injuring motorist
The 26-year-old Wantage man admitted to fleeing people intoxicated, and injuring a motorist as a result of a crash, the Prosecutor said. NEWTON -- A Wantage man admitted last week that he fled police...
View ArticleVernon man admits robbing gas station, jewelry from parent's house
The Highland Lakes man pled guilty to Tuesday to various crimes, the Prosecutor said. NEWTON -- A Vernon man admitted Tuesday that he robbed a gas station, stole jewelry from his parents home and took...
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