Clark, New Jersey Mayor Sal Bonaccorso appeared in a Union County courtroom Wednesday where the judge said plea talks were ongoing. Bonaccorso is charged with corruption for allegedly using taxpayer ...

A controversial bill pushed by a powerful state senator seeking to gut a corruption-fighting watchdog agency has been abruptly pulled by its sponsor — Senate President Nick Scutari — according to ...

New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin (D) has picked a lot of fights. He’s fought with the president, with state politicians of both parties, and with policing units he oversees. He’s even flipped ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Louis Manzo was preparing to do a radio interview from his family's shore home on the morning of July 23, 2009, when the FBI called. Hours later, he was being led in handcuffs ...

Walsh isn't the only watchdog official sour on the concept of merging watchdog agencies. In September, before the details of ...

PATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- Paterson Mayor Joey Torres is expected to turn himself in for what the state attorney general calls a classic case of "old-school political corruption and abuse of power ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Sharpe James, the charismatic longest-serving mayor of Newark whose political accomplishments were marred by a corruption conviction, has died. He was 89. James died Sunday evening, ...

NEW BRUNSWICK – The family who owns a Sayreville strip club and two associates have pleaded guilty to charges related to running a house of prostitution at the Route 35 establishment and will have to ...

NEWARK Hoboken's newly-elected mayor, Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez were arrested, as was Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Assemblymen Daniel ...