Even before he heard that the suspect in the shooting deaths of 13 people in Fort Hood, Texas, was a Muslim, Morad Abou-Sabe prepared for additional bad news. “Every ethnic group begins to worry when something like this happens, ‘I hope this has no association with us,’” said Abou-Sabe, a Hopewell resident and president of the Arab-American League of... Full story »

TRENTON — Police on Thursday arrested a city man who allegedly tried to hold up a liquor store using a knife and a garbage can as weapons. Muhammad Perez, 18, arrived at the store on the 200 block of Hamilton Avenue around 8:15 p.m., police said. Walking inside, he encountered Kariq Patel, 30, who was working with his father Lalit,... Full story »

TRENTON -- Lawyers for seven state troopers disciplined in a sex scandal argued in a hearing today that the administrative charges should be dismissed, saying the Attorney General’s office withheld critical evidence. The troopers were originally accused of sexually assaulting a Rider University student almost two years ago. Although they were never charged, the troopers were suspended without pay last... Full story »

EWING — The Green Lane Bridge, closed for replacement since early July, will officially reopen Monday. Mercer County officials will hold a ribbon cutting Monday at 12:30 p.m. to celebrate the work completion. The bridge on Green Lane crosses the Shabakunk Creek about one-quarter-mile west of the Ewingville Road intersection. County officials closed the 26-foot span after it was... Full story »

TRENTON — A technological problem did cause a miscount of votes from 97 voting machines Tuesday, but the discrepancy was not the fault of Sequoia Voting Systems machines, county and state officials said Thursday. A day after Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello accused the Sequoia system of causing repeated and "unacceptable" vote-count problems, she reversed herself and said the... Full story »

WEST WINDSOR — A much-debated project to replace a group of dilapidated, two-story brick apartment buildings near the MarketFair shopping center with 204 units of new housing for students at Princeton Theological Seminary is moving forward. The controversial project, which will include the clearing of 8.1 acres of trees, was approved by the West Windsor planning board late Wednesday... Full story »

TRENTON — Police Thursday night were investigating the alleged sexual assault of a 3-year-old girl. Sources said the girl had accused her father of touching her inappropriately and having her touch him. The incident allegedly occurred on Oct. 28. The girl apparently said something to a neighbor near her Dayton Street home that sparked the neighbor’s concern. The neighbor is... Full story »

Authorities arrested 11 people and confiscated more than $10,000 worth of crystal meth, following an investigation that spanned several counties and stretched into Eastern Pennsylvania. Two of the defendants were accused of being the primary suppliers in a crime network that consistently distributed the drugs to individuals throughout Hunterdon, Somerset, Middlesex and Union counties, said Chief Dan Hurley, spokesman for... Full story »

HAMILTON — An elderly woman was killed as a fire raged through her home Wednesday afternoon, officials said. The 83-year-old lived with her daughter and was under the part-time supervision of a health aide, police said, neither of whom were home at the time. Firefighters arrived on the first block of Irving Court to find smoke pouring from the... Full story »

TRENTON — Some votes cast in Tuesday’s election did not appear in initial tallies by the county clerk last night, affecting official vote totals in ten municipalities. Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami-Covello said she thought the errors were caused by the county’s Sequoia Voting Systems machines, which have been blamed for vote discrepancies in the past and are the subject... Full story »

TRENTON -- Attorney General Anne Milgram asked a federal judge today to throw out a lawsuit from seven troopers involved in a sex scandal. The troopers, who have never faced criminal charges in the alleged rape of a drunken college student, are trying to avoid punishment, saying the sex was consensual and should not be regulated. Last month, they were... Full story »

BRISTOL TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Township police reported Wednesday afternoon that two bodies, both with gunshot wounds to the head, were found in the upstairs bedroom of their home in Levittown on Tuesday afternoon. Russell Vender, 54, and his wife Ethlyn, 52, were found at approximately 5 p.m. by a family member who went to visit the house. Police said... Full story »

Voters returned the Democratic incumbents to the Mercer County Board of Freeholders last night. Ann Cannon, Pasquale “Pat” Colavita and Dan Benson bested the trio of GOP freeholder candidates, Cindy Randazzo, Shirley Guerieri and Russell Wojtenko Jr., for three-year terms on the all-Democratic board. With 98 percent of the votes counted, the unofficial results from the Mercer County clerk’s office... Full story »

TRENTON — Retired police officer George Muschal easily won the South Ward council race last night, besting five other candidates including one endorsed by the former councilman Muschal will replace. "I crushed them," Muschal said last night at his business, the Wishie Washie Laundromat on Lalor Street, where his supporters gathered to celebrate. "I knocked at every house in... Full story »

Incumbent District 14 Democrats Linda Greenstein, D-Plainsboro, and Wayne DeAngelo, D-Hamilton, were re-elected Tuesday to their sixth and second Assembly terms, respectively. Unofficial results showed Greenstein and DeAngelo receiving 24,432 votes and 23,161 votes respectively, with their Republican opponents Rob Calabro and William Harvey garnering 20,029 and 19,406 respectively. Greenstein and DeAngelo received 10,297 and 9,376 votes, respectively, in... Full story »