NJSPCA

A New Jersey lawmaker unveils a plan to abolish the NJSPCA, and change how animal cruelty laws are upheld.

The charges came after several inspections this year revealing poor conditions at the shelter in Newark.

Sen. Ray Lesniak says legislation giving counties responsibility for enforcing animal cruelty laws will be ready in a week and pass by January.

The State Commission of Investigation concluded that many problems found in a report 17 years ago have gotten worse at the NJSPCA.

Laura Pople faces charges claiming that healthy dogs died in her care after being saved from a fire in Jersey City.

Officials found about a hundred rabbits inside the home and another hundred outside the home "in cages full of feces," the NJSPCA said.

Two high school students face animal cruelty charges for striking several Canada geese in Woodbridge and killing one, all while capturing the whole incident on video and posting it on the Internet.

The driver of a pickup truck that sank in the Toms River after ice under it gave way March 1 has been charged with animal cruelty and the truck recovered.

HELMETTA, N.J. (AP) — A central New Jersey animal shelter has been quarantined following an inspection by Middlesex County health officials and the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Surveillance cameras were rolling June 5, as a male suspect was seen removing four pit bulls from the back of a truck in a parking lot and then driving off in the Port Reading section of Woodbridge. One of the dogs was injured with a fractured spine and hip.