5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (324+ words) I remember growing up going to my uncles house and playing with his train sets. He had it in his basement where there was plenty of space for it to spread out. But this wasn't like any ordinary train set....

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (697+ words) Spring has arrived in New Jersey and with it comes that familiar restlessness. The itch to get outside, go somewhere, do something. The Shore is still a few weeks from peak season. The summer crowds have not arrived yet. And…...

5+ mon, 2+ day ago   (358+ words) If you ever needed proof that New Jersey commuters can turn literally anything into a contest, allow me to present Exhibit A: a dirty mountain of leftover snow in a PATCO parking lot that became a guessing game with actual winners....

5+ mon, 4+ day ago   (387+ words) A New Jersey State Police trooper running in the Republican U.S. Senate primary for the seat currently held by Cory Booker has been suspended. New Jersey 101.5 learned Wednesday afternoon that Richard Tabor was suspended without pay by the State Police. Tabor…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (595+ words) The big Memorial Day Weekend is just around the corner. And then comes June: The start of climatological summer, the end of the school year, and the official grand kickoff of the Atlantic hurricane season. Hurricanes can form in any…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (247+ words) DOVER — Fifteen high-powered agricultural drones capable of spraying chemicals over wide areas in minutes vanished from a New Jersey warehouse in a theft that had authorities on edge over how dangerous they could be in the wrong hands. The $870,000 heist…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (426+ words) NEWARK — A 27-year-old Union County man has been charged with killing a prominent city figure and former lawmaker in a car crash on Sunday. John M. Arango-Taborda, of Elizabeth, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree aggravated manslaughter and…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago   (402+ words) Remember New Jersey's mystery drones? They’re now the subject of a documentary series If you lived in New Jersey during the strange drone sightings that had everyone looking up in the sky instead of down at their phones, you probably…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (640+ words) This week I noticed that my former colleague Toniann Antonelli did something nine years ago I have been thinking about ever since. She asked people from our Townsquare Media sister stations in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Twin Falls, Idaho what…...

5+ mon, 3+ week ago   (264+ words) I grew up in Rahway. Our house was old. We didn’t even own it. My father worked as a letter carrier and my mom worked at the Quinn & Boden book manufacturing plant. We had no air conditioning, not even a…...