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Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli, 60, has been chosen to lead the Roman Catholic Diocese of Paterson. He will succeed Bishop Frank J. Rodimer, 77, who submitted his retirement papers to […]

A car found in a motel parking lot in Atlantic City in early May belonged to a slain computer expert who worked at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, the […]

A few days before he was slain and dismembered, William T. McGuire, 39, a computer specialist at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, told a neighbor that he and his […]

About 425 unionized nurses, pharmacists and mental health and social workers struck the Bergen Regional Medical Center yesterday morning in a dispute over wages, pension benefits and staffing. Nonstriking employees […]

The Vatican has selected a biblical scholar who grew up in Newark and became a seminary professor and skilled speaker as the new bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of […]

Seven animal rights advocates were arrested on Wednesday on charges of trying to disrupt the work of a New Jersey pharmaceutical testing company and threatening its employees and those of […]

Before his unit shipped from Kuwait to Iraq in March, First Lt. Christian Boggiano, 23, made a special appeal to his mother, Mary, by e-mail message. Please, he asked, scrounge […]

The former N.B.A. star Jayson Williams will be retried on the charge of reckless manslaughter that left a jury deadlocked last month after his first trial in the fatal shooting […]

At the start of jury deliberations in the Jayson Williams trial last month, the presiding judge, in a relatively rare move in New Jersey, gave the jury a written copy […]

In a split verdict after a 15-week trial, Jayson Williams was acquitted Friday of aggravated manslaughter and two other serious charges in the fatal shooting of a chauffeur at his […]

The jurors in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial disclosed on Thursday that they had reached verdicts in six of the charges and were deeply divided on the two other counts. […]

On the second day of deliberations, the jury in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial asked for a rereading of testimony dealing with charges that Mr. Williams tried to cover up […]

Wrapping up a three-month trial plagued by delays and charges of prosecutorial misconduct, defense lawyers told a jury on Monday that Jayson Williams should be acquitted of manslaughter in the […]

Testimony in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial ended on Tuesday after a gun expert called by the defense criticized prosecutors for letting a Browning Arms Company executive inspect Mr. Williams's […]

The jury in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial returned to court Monday after nearly three weeks and learned for the first time about the evidence squabble that had led to […]

The judge in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial rejected a defense motion on Thursday that sought the dismissal of all charges because prosecutors failed to turn over photographs and notes […]

Lawyers for Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star, asked a judge yesterday to dismiss all charges against him, saying that the prosecutor in his manslaughter trial had committed […]

A 25-year-old parolee has been arrested and charged with shooting a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University during a brawl at a dance early Sunday. Detectives said that they think the […]

The manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams was suspended for one week on Monday because of a growing controversy about evidence involving a prosecution inspection of the 12-gauge shotgun that was […]

Early in the investigation into the fatal Seton Hall dormitory fire in January 2000, the Essex County prosecutor's office agreed to pay two members of organized crime $60,000 apiece to […]

The aggravated manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams was disrupted on Thursday when the defense accused prosecutors of violating the rules of evidence and interfering with Mr. Williams's right to a […]

Despite an earlier statement from his lawyer that he would take the stand, Jayson Williams said in court on Wednesday that he would not testify in his own defense at […]

A private detective testified on Tuesday that a former teammate of Jayson Williams's who has been a key prosecution witness in Mr. Williams's manslaughter trial asked for money or a […]

A weapons expert testifying in defense of Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star, conceded on Monday that he was unable to say positively that a malfunction had caused […]

The shotgun that discharged and killed a chauffeur at Jayson Williams's country estate two years ago could have malfunctioned because of worn parts and pieces of debris in its firing […]

The defense in the manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams, the former pro basketball star, opened its case on Wednesday with a prominent forensic pathologist who contradicted prosecution testimony about the […]

The judge in the manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star, on Tuesday rejected most of a package of motions the defense had submitted the day […]

The defense in the manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets star, asked the judge on Monday to allow the jury to watch a computerized video suggesting […]

A ring that stole millions of dollars worth of medications, including Zocor, Viagra and Claritin, and resold them on the black market was broken up this week with the arrests […]

The prosecution rested its case yesterday in the manslaughter trial of the former Nets star Jayson Williams, left, after the defense again tried to suggest that the shotgun that killed […]

A State Police firearms expert who analyzed the shotgun used in the fatal shooting of Costas Christofi testified on Tuesday that the gun had no mechanical problems and that it […]

Two members of the Harlem Globetrotters testified Monday that they tried to comfort Costas Christofi after he was hit in the chest by a shotgun blast and lay dying on […]

A transient with a history of aggressive behavior who claimed that he had a bomb took two employees of a limousine company hostage Friday and kept SWAT teams at bay […]

An expert in crime-scene analysis testified on Thursday that he believed that Jayson Williams was standing four to five feet from Costas Christofi when a shotgun Mr. Williams was holding […]

The small, obscure agency that writes New Jersey's hunting laws rebuffed the state's environmental commissioner yesterday and proposed a new black bear hunt this December, similar to last December's controversial […]

The movement for same-sex marriages reached New Jersey yesterday when a gay couple who had been issued a marriage license by the city clerk's office were married in Asbury Park […]

A second former teammate of Jayson Williams testified on Thursday that an open shotgun held by Mr. Williams discharged as he jerked it upward, killing a chauffeur. The witness, Chris […]

A former pro basketball teammate of Jayson Williams testified Wednesday that he saw Mr. Williams's finger on the trigger of a shotgun just before the gun fired, killing a 55-year-old […]

In the hours before a chauffeur was fatally shot at Jayson Williams's country estate in early 2002, Mr. Williams treated five of his friends and four Harlem Globetrotters to a […]

A close friend of Jayson Williams testified on Monday that Mr. Williams called a chauffeur a vulgar name, then pointed a shotgun at him and snapped its barrels shut immediately […]

Five friends and four Harlem Globetrotters were in various parts of Jayson Williams's country home in Alexandria Township, N.J., when a chauffeur, Costas Christofi, was killed two years ago by […]

The Ford Motor Company ceased production at its sprawling assembly plant here on Thursday, ending 56 years as a manufacturing fixture in north-central New Jersey and stripping away yet another […]

A guest at the home of the former basketball star Jayson Williams when a chauffeur was fatally shot provided seemingly contradictory accounts on Wednesday of whether Mr. Williams helped orchestrate […]

Two men who were at Jayson Williams's country estate on the night a chauffeur was killed there testified on Tuesday that they saw Mr. Williams wiping down a shotgun moments […]

A guest at Jayson Williams's estate the night a chauffeur was killed by a shotgun blast testified on Monday that Mr. Williams began organizing a cover-up of his involvement minutes […]

The owner of the nation's oldest nuclear power plant -- Oyster Creek, in New Jersey -- plans to seek a license renewal to operate the plant through 2029. The decision […]

The judge in the Jayson Williams manslaughter trial on Thursday threw out part of a coroner's testimony in which he concluded that the victim was 'in a defensive mode' when […]

Jayson Williams's gun collection and his opulent home were put on display during his aggravated manslaughter trial here on Wednesday. The day's testimony and the introduction of the guns and […]

The jury in the aggravated manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams listened on Tuesday to a tape of a frantic call to 911 in which his brother described the shotgun blast […]

The prosecution in the aggravated manslaughter trial of Jayson Williams opened its case Wednesday with testimony and evidence establishing the fatal shooting of a chauffeur, Costas Christofi, in Mr. Williams's […]