Crime

Despite staunch opposition from gun rights advocates, the State Senate plans to vote on 14 gun control bills May 13.

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Pretty much everybody has applied for a job at some point and that means pretty much everybody has seen that box on an application that asks you to check it if you have a criminal record.

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Excerpts from Newtown Parents' News Conference in Support of Limiting Ammo Magazine Size (A-1329) from NJ Assembly Democratic Office on Vimeo.

Parents of victims of the horrific Newtown school massacre filled Assembly Democratic Leader Lou Greenwald's State House office yesterday and fought back tears as they pleaded for the legislature to pass a bill to impose a 10-bullet limitation on the capacity of semiautomatic ammunition magazines.

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is proposing a litany of gun control and violence prevention legislation.

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'The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world,' or so the saying goes, and that's the kind of influence Ocean County law enforcement officers are hoping to have by teaching an International anti-gang program in area elementary and middle schools.

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Last week, Governor Chris Christie unveiled his gun control and violence prevention proposals.

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In these difficult economic times, many New Jersey residents are voicing concern about the cost of incarcerating inmates and for good reason.

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Gang activity is a problem that continues to plague New Jersey cities, suburbs and even small towns.

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The Boston Marathon Bombings were "evil" and "cowardly," but they were not a 'wake-up call.'

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Hunterdon County is very affluent and mostly rural, so it's probably not the area of New Jersey that comes to mind when you think about heroin abuse, but maybe it should be.

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