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NJ Spotlight News: July 3, 2024
We bring you what’s relevant and important in New Jersey news, along with our insight. Watch as the NJ Spotlight News team breaks down today’s top stories. Menendez defense rests case without senator testifying. Closing arguments could begin as early as Tuesday. Candidates to succeed Payne line up...
Get Ready For Free Slurpee Day In New Jersey
This super popular convenience store is turning 97!. The one that keeps you cool and refreshed during these hot summer months here in New Jersey. 7-Eleven will soon celebrate its 97th anniversary!. Wow, 97 years it's been around and you can join in on the big celebration by stopping by...
Look for these NJ athletes at the Paris Olympics this summer
New Jersey has been ready — along with the rest of the world — to again cheer on our hometown Olympic athletes. Trials to qualify for various events at the summer games in Paris, France, have now been winding down. Among them, NJ track star Athing Mu suffered...
State protections for domestic workers now in effect
New rights for housekeepers, in-home child care workers, others. New Jersey’s Domestic Worker Bill of Rights went into effect this week, giving landmark protections to some of the state’s most vulnerable workers. The regulations guarantee that people like housekeepers, in-home child care workers and caregivers for the elderly...
N.J. judge drunkenly kissed women at party, made ‘vulgar’ posts online, state claims
A longtime municipal court judge has been charged with ethics violations for inappropriately touching three women at a holiday party last year while he was intoxicated, a state judicial committee announced Wednesday. Richard Obuch is also accused of commenting on sexual social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) and posting...
Former Owner of Brigantine Seaside Market, Tilton Market Dies
Joseph Mazzeo of Linwood, a lifetime owner of South Jersey food markets, died on Tuesday. The former owner of Joe's Seaside Super Market in Brigantine and co-owner of Tilton Market in Northfield was 94. According to his obituary, Mazzeo grew up in Egg Harbor City and was in a US...
3 More Winning Lottery Tickets Were Sold In New Jersey
Buy a huge house? Go on extravagant vacations? Retire?. I'd pay off my house, student loans, and my wife's car and then put the rest in the bank and let it work for me while continuing to work at 105.7 The Hawk. It may not be the craziest thing to...
Summer Olympics New Gymnastics Darling is New Jersey Native Hezly Rivera
A first time Olympian named Hezly Rivera will represent her home state of New Jersey when she visits Paris, France for the Summer Games later this month. Hezly Rivera is a 16-year-old gymnast. Like her predecessor Laurie Hernandez, women's gymnastics champion, Hezly’s a New Jersey native hailing from Oradell, Bergen County.
Safety rules to protect workers during heat waves issued by feds
Biden administration officials rolled out a long-awaited heat standard on Tuesday meant to protect workers from the deluge of heat waves and extreme weather advocates say are becoming more commonplace because of climate change. The regulation would cover an estimated 35 million workers across the nation, though it would not go into effect...
Fugitive NJ truck driver arrested after Route 1 crash killed 3
⬜ Van driver and 2 passengers died in fiery wreck. A New Jersey truck driver was captured in Georgia on charges of a horrific wreck that killed three people in a van along Route 1 in Middlesex County. The April 12 crash claimed the lives of 24-year-old van driver Charisse...
Civil rights group files lawsuit alleging housing discrimination against a DACA recipient
A national Latino legal and civil rights organization is suing a property management company, alleging it a young woman in New Jersey access to rental units based solely on her immigration status as a DACA recipient. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, better known as MALDEF, filed the...
Body Pulled from D&R Canal State Park in Lawrence Township
LAWRENCE TOWNSHIP, NJ (MERCER)–The New Jersey State Park Police report that police, Lawrence Township Fire Department, EMS and the Trenton Fire Department’s Water Rescue Team recovered a body from an area of the Delaware & Raritan Canal in Lawrence Township, Mercer County. A medical examiner responded to the scene. No further details are available at this time. The body was discovered around 9:15 a.m. as reported from an intial call to Lawrence Police Department and was located 1/2 mile north of Whitehead Road.
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