Stephen Stirling

'They should have done something': Broad failures fueled Wisconsin's absentee ballot crisis, investigation shows

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – In Lodi and Pewaukee, voters were told the system for requesting absentee ballots crashed. In Marshfield, Shorewood and Bristol, voters threw up their hands after spending hours in front of computers trying to request a ballot. In…

Cops cracking down on drunk drivers nab man connected to Newark carjacking, police say

Atlantic City police officers working on a statewide effort to curb drunk driving pulled over and arrested a man wanted in a November carjacking in Newark, authorities said Sunday. Deon Nance, 23, was arrested Friday night after failing to stop at a…

Man, 25, arrested in Paterson shooting

A Paterson man was arrested and charged with aggravated assault after police said he shot and injured another man on Elm Street Friday night. Jessi Mercado, 25, was arrested Saturday after police say he shot and injured a 25-year-old man in Paterson…

Test scores are in for every N.J. school. See how yours compares.

The latest test scores are in for New Jersey’s state exams, showing how every school in the state fared on the standardized math and English tests. Released last week, the scores from 2018-19 reveal how students performed in the first year of the New…

Winter storm watches for parts of N.J.; 4 to 8 inches of snow possible; could wreak havoc on holiday travel

Mother Nature doesn’t always have a great sense of timing. A complex low pressure system is expected to bring a one-two punch of winter weather to New Jersey, just as holiday travelers head back home this weekend. Winter storm watches have been…

4 cops earned $250K last year in one N.J. town. Here’s how they gamed the system.

Four police officers in Somerset County’s largest town earned more than $250,000 last year, using a combination of union work and overtime to swell their salaries to astronomical levels, an NJ Advance Media investigation shows. In addition, 22 other…

Treatment beds are disappearing for kids in N.J. even as opioid deaths are still near record highs

One by one, residential substance abuse treatment centers for teenagers have disappeared across New Jersey, declining precipitously as the opioid crisis reaches new deadly heights. First it was Integrity House. Then Lighthouse in Mays Landing. This…

N.J. promised to treat its dead better. Instead, more bodies are piling up and staff is fleeing.

Things were supposed to get better for the dead in New Jersey. Two years after an NJ Advance Media investigation uncovered failures at nearly every level of New Jersey’s medical examiner system, prompting vows from Gov. Phil Murphy and state…

Jessica Melore had no time for death. There was too much to do.

To me, she’ll always be the girl at the bus stop in the oversized backpack. In my mind’s eye, she rattles into frame on a shaky camera lens. I’m running to catch the bus, late again, and she’s standing there quietly, staring straight down Kiva Place,…

It was hot today in N.J. Here’s why it is and isn’t climate change.

A few years ago on a cold February day, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) threw a snowball onto the floor of Congress as a means of disproving the existence of global warming. He was soundly criticized by climate change experts, because weather…

Powerball lottery: Did you win Saturday’s $60M Powerball drawing? Winning numbers, live results (09/14/2019)

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing is worth $60 million with a cash option of $42.7 million. The winning Powerball numbers drawn Saturday are: 11, 27, 31, 36, 67. Powerball: 11. Power play: 2x. No one hit Wednesday’s $50 million…

Decks collapse at Jersey Shore house during annual firefighters weekend. Multiple injuries reported.

At least 22 people were injured, including several firefighters, when multiple decks collapsed at a residential building in Wildwood. The collapse created a mad scramble to search for victims during the Jersey Shore town’s annual firefighters…

Powerball lottery: Did you win Saturday’s $149M Powerball drawing? Winning numbers, live results (08/17/2019)

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing has climbed to $149 million with a cash option of $103.7 million. The winning numbers were: 18, 21, 24, 30, 60. Powerball: 20. Power Play 3x. Since last being hit July 13, nine drawings have been…

Woman, 83, struck and killed by car in Atlantic City

An 83-year-old woman was struck by a car while attempting to cross the street in the early hours of Saturday morning, police said. The Wallington woman, who was not identified, was taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center where she died from her…

Cops in this N.J. town got paid for vacation and golf on ‘union time’

Dozens of officers at the embattled police department in Franklin Township, Somerset County cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years by misusing an obscure paid time off policy, NJ Advance Media has learned. The policy,…

Democratic presidential debates: Who’s winning fundraising race among N.J. voters?

Let’s be honest, if U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) wasn’t leading the baseball team’s worth of Democratic candidates for president in New Jersey fundraising, it would be pretty embarrassing. And in both the number of contributors and the amount of…

Powerball lottery: Did you win Saturday’s $53M Powerball drawing? Winning numbers, live results (07/20/2019)

The Powerball jackpot for Saturday’s lottery drawing is worth an estimated $53 million with a cash option of $34.3 million. Saturday’s winning numbers were: 05, 26, 36, 64 and 69. The Power Ball drawn was 19. with a Megaplier of 3X. No one hit the…

Bridge gets stuck open due to extreme heat in Monmouth County

It’s no idiom: It’s so hot in New Jersey the bridges won’t even close. A drawbridge spanning the Navesink River between Rumson and Middletown was briefly stuck open after Saturday’s heat caused the metal in it to expand, Monmouth County officials…

N.J. Weather: What was the hottest spot in N.J. today?

Several New Jersey cities broke 100 degrees and Atlantic City set a new record as intense heat simmered across the Garden State Saturday. It felt more like 110 to 115 degrees in many parts of the state when the humidity was factored in, and more more…

N.J. weather: Here’s how miserable it will feel this weekend. This animation will make you sweat.

Temperatures simmered in the low-to-mid 90s Friday afternoon and it felt like nearly 110 degrees in parts of New Jersey today, the prelude to what is expected to be the state’s hottest stretch in several years. The heat index, a measure of what the…