Born and raised in New Jersey, Annette is definitely a Jersey Girl. She even have the big hair to prove it! Through her years at New Jersey 101.5, she's held various roles in the newsroom, including as the department's assignment editor and assistant news director. In her current role as news director, she helps determine the stories that will be the most impactful to our listening and reading audience while always remembering to follow what New Jersey 101.5 was founded on "Not New York, Not Philadelphia ... New Jersey 101.5." Under her leadership, the station has won several journalism awards, including its first National Murrow Award for Newscast from the Radio Television Digital News Association in 2022. Most importantly, she's always looking to hear from the people that live and work in New Jersey. If you have a story you think New Jersey 101.5's award-winning journalists should pursue, please email her at annette.petriccione@townsquaremedia.com.
Annette Petriccione
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 22 (Afternoon)
Two people died in a fiery crash involving multiple vehicles early Friday morning on one of the busiest stretches of roadway in the state.
There are rules in place to maintain a safe environment at hair and nail salons in New Jersey, but many customers and employees are unaware of the risks and are feeling the pain, according to a pair of studies out of Rutgers School of Public Health...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 21 (Afternoon)
Police did not have to go far to respond to a report of a man driving under the influence earlier this week.
It wouldn’t take effect until late next year at the earliest, but lawmakers unanimously advanced a plan Wednesday that could raise electricity costs by around $40 a year for homeowners and a half-million dollars for big industrial customers...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 20 (Afternoon)
An 18-year-old student is one of four teens charged in connection with the assault of a 17-year-old female student at the high school.
A jackknifed tractor trailer on Route 78 created delays for several miles into Pennsylvania on Wednesday morning...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 19 (Afternoon)
An Amtrak overhead wire issue caused delays that grew to at least 90 minutes for NJ Transit riders on Tuesday.
Officials continue to investigate why the Amtrak train that derailed in Washington was speeding.
Law enforcement has been called to the Red Carpet Inn more than 700 times over the past two years...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 14 (Afternoon)
New Jersey is the 12th-healthiest state in the nation, according to new rankings, still finding itself among the bottom half of states on several measures.
A 21-year-old from Fanwood has pleaded guilty to a series of attacks against the university’s servers that may have cost the institution close to $10 million...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 13 (Afternoon)
A month before he takes the oath of office, a new Rutgers Eagleton poll finds Jersey residents are cautiously optimistic about Governor-elect Phil Murphy.
Over the course of five days last week, immigration officials rounded up more than 100 foreign nationals from three dozen counties who they say are in the United States illegally...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 12 (Afternoon)
The Senate Higher Education Committee endorsed bills Monday that would give the state’s higher education secretary until mid-2018 to complete a study of why so many high-school graduates leave New Jersey for college and give the state auditor a year to do performance reviews of every public college and university in the state...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 11 (Afternoon)
A Monmouth County woman arriving at the Port Authority on Monday said she heard screaming and police ordering everyone out in the moments after a pipe bomb explosion.
The circumstances surrounding the death of an 8-year-old-girl found unconscious in an apartment on Sunday afternoon remain unclear...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 8 (Evening)
Ready or not, here it comes — New Jersey’s first accumulating snow of the season arrives this weekend.
A freight train that derailed on a freight line has caused the suspension of NJ Transit’s Raritan Valley Line.
Hospitals across the Garden State are looking to attract more patients, improve the efficiency of the care they provide all while saving money...
New Jersey 101.5 News — Flash Briefing for December 8 (Morning)
A school bus driver in Mercer County was arrested after a student passenger broke his leg.
A bundle of changes to New Jersey’s expungement system was approved Thursday by lawmakers, enabling more people to become eligible more quickly to erase more offenses from their criminal records
A measure now approved by both houses of the New Jersey Legislature would establish standards for operations invol