Anyone looking to recover from holiday spending sprees might want to check with New Jersey’s treasury department. The state is holding onto $7 billion in unclaimed funds and property, waiting on their ...

When campaign consultant Sean Caddle pleaded guilty in 2022 to murder-for-hire, he was allowed to remain at home for nearly two years while he cooperated with federal prosecutors on a political ...

A Senate panel in unanimous votes Monday approved bills that would heighten penalties for harassment against public officials and certain politically driven crimes. The legislation advanced by the ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would end municipalities’ ability to charge for public defenders in a party-line vote Monday. The bill would repeal a law that allows ...

Critics say NJ's paid family leave law should not apply to businesses with fewer than 30 workers. Supporters say workers need ...

Top Democratic legislators distanced themselves from controversial new equity rules approved by the State Board of Education this week. The new rules, adopted as part of a required septennial rewrite, ...

On the fifth day of Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial in Manhattan, the Democrat’s name was barely mentioned, as federal prosecutors focused Friday on showing how co-defendant Wael Hana landed a ...

New Jersey was hailed as a model for criminal justice reform nationally when state lawmakers eliminated cash bail more than a decade ago. Supporters of the move cheered that poor defendants would no ...

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation Wednesday imposing civil and criminal penalties on anyone who makes or shares deceptive AI-generated media known as deepfakes. Murphy at an event in Newark said New ...

Blood drawn as part of a mandatory New Jersey newborn testing program could end up as evidence in the hands of law enforcement. The state Office of the Public Defender is alleging law enforcement in ...

A South Jersey state senator’s accusations that Attorney General Matthew Platkin is using his office to pursue political vendettas are “outrageous, totally ridiculous, and wrong,” Platkin said Monday.

The indictment unveiled Monday that accuses insurance executive and Democratic power broker George Norcross III of overseeing a criminal enterprise is replete with accusations of threats, intimidation ...