Avalon Zoppo

180 days in jail for mom who had kids in home full of feces and garbage
She was arrested in a hospital after giving birth to her sixth and seventh children.

Everybody was Kung Fu fighting … over a missing PS4 controller, cops say
A fight over the missing controller was taken to the next level.

Good news for gamblers — IRS reporting rule won’t get stricter after all
The IRS saw pushback from the casino industry after proposing to lower from $1,200 to $600 the amount that slot machine players could win before being required to provide their names to casinos.

NJ teen suing after alleged beat-down by undercover cops
Paterson teen says he had never been in trouble with the law or taken drugs.

Gas tax hike will help complete Route 206 bypass by 2020
Work on the bypass, a four-mile highway that takes traffic around Hillsborough and to Montgomery, began in 2011 and was scheduled to be completed in three phases

NJ civil rights group urges Boy Scouts to reinstate transgender child
Joe Maldonado was kicked out of his local Secaucus pack once parents began complaining that he was born a girl.

Indictment: Man who blamed devil for Pennsylvania murders killed 4 more in NJ
West has been sentenced to three consecutive life terms of imprisonment without the possibility of parole on the Pa. charges.

Plainfield loses 3rd victim to gun violence in December
Manuel Berrios, a former South Plainfield High School student, was struck by gunfire on the 600 block of East 3rd Street around 9:40 p.m. on Monday.

Rise and shiner: Trenton woman charged with smashing roommate with full coffee pot
Three roommates had a rude awakening Christmas morning after an argument landed the trio in handcuffs.

NJ man planned to smuggle drugs to his twin brother in jail, officials say
Twin brothers and a 37-year-old Whiting man were caught devising a scheme to smuggle drugs into the Monmouth County jail last summer.