Mercer County News

In a potential revenge killing that reaches from Trenton to Central America, the man who city police say killed his close friend in September was gunned down in Guatemala two months later, Guatemalan officials ...

Two deer jumped through a window at Faith Baptist School in Hamilton, Mercer County Monday and were contained in a classroom until animal control officers could tranquilize the deer for removal, according to a ...

Lobbyists begged and towns protested, but the state Council on Affordable Housing did not budge from its year-end deadline for receiving updated plans from municipalities.

PAUL MICKLE Staff Writer PRINCETON TWP. - In a case that illustrated the power of money and mindless animal lovers, a German shepherd named Congo dodged the death penalty in April and two months later mauled ...

A judge refused to reduce the $50,000 bail this week for a man who allegedly beat, bit, kicked and repeatedly pinched his girlfriend with pliers after another guy called their house on the eve of Christmas Eve.

New Jersey Senate Republicans sued Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine on Wednesday for refusing to release the financially battered state's budget records, prompting him to accuse them of playing political games.

Republicans in the New Jersey Senate have sued Gov. Jon S. Corzine over what they claim is his refusal to turn over budget documents.

An assemblyman from Mercer County, who drew the ire of Shore legislators with his proposal to consolidate smaller towns with larger ones, is seeking their help passing bills that would merge municipalities in ...

Tormu Prall spent most of 2008 as a fugitive after cops accused him of firebombing his brother to death.

It looks like Gov. Jon S. Corzine's plan that poor children be provided preschool is having unintended consequences.

If Leonor Tapia needed proof that, as the adage goes, "everything happens for a reason," this Christmas week has provided more than enough.

With the economic recession showing no sign of loosening its grip on New Jersey, Gov.

Mercer County Legal Services for the Elderly will be making their assistance available to seniors at a new site beginning next year.

A Brick Township legislator is striking back against a colleague's proposed law that would consolidate a handful of towns in Ocean County.

A city school district supervisor who read the Trentonian's story Tuesday reporting that Sheriff's Officer Vince Piscotta had struck a little dog and kept on going came forth yesterday to admit that he was the ...

The East Windsor man charged with the murder of his live-in girlfriend has admitted he stabbed her nearly 30 times over an argument about a television remote control.

A Mercer County prosecutor is expected to ask a new grand jury to file another indictment against a suspected boyfriend killer whose initial charges were tossed out by Superior Court Judge Thomas P. Kelly.

Many schools in New Jersey are closed or are planning to send students home early in anticipation of a wintry storm that's heading our way from the Midwest.

A city woman was indicted by a grand jury on attempted murder charges after the HIV-positive scrapper allegedly spit saliva and blood on an arresting officer, prosecutors said yesterday.

Michael Torney, former president of Rider University's now-defunct Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to abstain from alcohol in Mercer County Court yesterday in ...