N.J. congressman holds low-key ‘telephone town hall’
MORRISTOWN -- Following weeks of demands from constituents that he hold a face-to-face meeting in his district, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-11)...
Safety checks in Newark are not part of immigrant crackdown, cops say
NEWARK -- With undocumented immigrants across New Jersey on edge as President Trump promises a more aggressive deportation policy, a...
Three arrested in Morris County drug sweep
PARSIPPANY -- The police department's Special Enforcement Unit spearheaded an investigation into drug trafficking within Morris County, leading to three...
Have you seen this sex offender? Police want to know
A sex offender last known to be living on South Side Bethlehem is wanted by police for allegedly failing to...
May’s Conservatives gain parliamentary seat as rivals suffer election setbacks
Stoke-on-Trent, Whitehaven, England: British Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives secured a landmark victory in a parliamentary by-election on Friday, boosting her hand ahead of...
29 killed, dozens hurt in Syria car bomb attack
A car bomb in a village near Al-Bab in Syria struck Syrian rebels fighting Daesh early on Friday, killing at least 29 people and...
Pittsburgh, developer call truce over East Liberty apartment complex
Sign up for one of our email newsletters.Updated 7 hours ago Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto's administration and a Downtown developer who have battled...
Baldwin man to serve no additional prison time for hate crime beating after Chesney...
Sign up for one of our email newsletters.Updated 7 hours ago A Baldwin Borough man will serve no additional prison time despite pleading...
Treasury's Mnuchin wants 'very significant' tax reform passed by August
Sign up for one of our email newsletters.Updated 7 hours ago Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday laid out an ambitious schedule...
Police dog grant raises eyebrows in Arnold — a city without a police dog
Sign up for one of our email newsletters.Updated 6 hours ago News that Arnold received a grant from the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation for...
Hoosick Falls villagers outraged as PFOA meeting is postponed
CaptionCloseHoosick Falls The Hoosick Falls Village Board felt the outrage of residents when it voted Thursday night to postpone a special meeting on a...
Sheehan launches push for funding
CaptionCloseAlbanyThe city needs the public's help in convincing state lawmakers to provide Albany with permanent funding to help close the $12.5 million 2017 budget...
Lightning point streak ends with loss to Flames (w/ video)
TAMPA — The decision to start Andrei Vasilevskiy over red-hot Ben Bishop in goal Thursday night will understandably be questioned and debated in Lightning...
Food truck rules outnumber patrons in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — For the 23rd year running, Hong Kong is, in the opinion of the conservative Heritage Foundation, the freest economy in the...
Cosmos controversy: The universe is expanding, but how fast?
There is a crisis brewing in the cosmos, or perhaps in the community of cosmologists. The universe seems to be expanding too fast, some...
Old farmstead's history runs from John Brown to James Brown
DARGAN, Md. — From John Brown's raid to James Brown's wail, a stream of hot-blooded American history runs through a 19th century farmstead in...
Readers Write (Feb. 24): Congressional town halls, immigration policy, transgender policy, University of Minnesota...
My husband and I attended U.S. Rep. Tom Emmer’s town hall meeting Wednesday evening in Sartell, Minn., on the condition that we would behave...
Illegal immigrants: We may pay a steep price for this craziness
Now begins the latest chapter in our new president’s dissembling.Before cheering crowds in Florida last weekend, President Trump declared his resolve to deport “gang...
Plymouth meeting without U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen draws hundreds
Frustrated by a lack of town hall meetings on U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen’s calendar, some of his constituents set up a gathering of their...
As U.S. signals reversal on private prisons, Minnesota facility is back in play
Attorney General Jeff Sessions signaled Thursday his strong support for the federal government’s continued use of private prisons — reversing a late-Obama-era directive to...