At the Spinning Wheel Diner in Lebanon, N.J., near the epicenter of the earthquake, the servers first heard the china loudly rattling on the metal kitchen shelves. Some customers eating breakfast at the red vinyl booths darted out the double glass doors into the parking lot but found that outside was shaking just as badly…
SAYREVILLE, N.J. — Eunice K. Dwumfour, a 30-year-old councilwoman serving her first term in Sayreville, N.J., was fatally shot on Wednesday night, officials said. Officers with the Sayreville Police Department responded to reports of a shooting at 7:22 p.m. in Parlin, an unincorporated area of Sayreville, and found Ms. Dwumfour in her car with multiple…
A man wearing a ski mask lit the wick of a Molotov cocktail and hurled it at the front door of a synagogue in Bloomfield, N.J., early on Sunday morning, the latest episode in an uptick of harassment and violence targeting Jews and Jewish institutions, the authorities said. The Molotov cocktail’s bottle broke, and the…
Primary voters in seven states, including California and New Jersey, go to the polls on Tuesday to select their party’s candidates for statewide offices, including the governors of New Mexico and South Dakota; mayor of Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest city; and dozens of House seats. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is not…