Katie Kausch

2 days ago | nj.com | Katie Kausch

Teaching isn’t known as a job that makes you rich. But experienced educators can expect to make more than $100,000 in some New Jersey school districts. Public school teachers in New Jersey had median salaries of more than $80,000 during the 2023-24 school year, according to the state Taxpayers Guide to Education Spending. But teachers in the 15 highest-paying school districts earned median salaries in the six-figures.

1 week ago | nj.com | Katie Kausch

Police are asking for help finding a Monmouth County high school student who has been missing since Monday. Aaliyah Jeffrey, a junior at Matawan Regional High School in Aberdeen, was last seen near the school around 2 p.m. Monday, Aberdeen police said. She has not returned home since. Jeffrey is about 5′1″ tall and was last seen wearing “a pink shirt with a cheetah, pink sweatpants, white crocs, pink multicolored head scarf and a grey book bag,” police said.

3 weeks ago | nj.com | Katie Kausch

Stunning photos and videos show the wildfire that ripped through southern Ocean County Tuesday night, cutting power to 25,000 homes and forcing the temporary evacuation of 3,000 residents. The Jones Road wildfire in Ocean and Lacey townships was 8,500 acres and 10% contained as of 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the most recent update on the size. It was unclear how extensive the damage was on Wednesday morning.

3 weeks ago | nj.com | Katie Kausch

An Essex County man was found guilty of murdering a man outside of a bar in Newark in 2021, the prosecutor’s office announced. Isaiah J. Knight, 31, of East Orange, was convicted of murder, weapons charges, and conspiracy to commit witness tampering following a jury trial last week. In a second trial, he was also convicted of having a weapon he was not allowed to possess, and was found to be a “persistent offender.”He faces life in prison when he is sentenced on June 5.

3 weeks ago | nj.com | Katie Kausch

The owners of a New Jersey-based healthcare marketing company were sentenced to prison for operating an illegal kickback scheme and defrauding the federal government out of $127 million. Eric Karlewicz, 46, from Rockland County, New York, and Nicco Romanowski, 33, of Roswell, Georgia, were sentenced in federal court in Newark, a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of New Jersey said. The two men ran Empire Pain Center Holdings, an Eatontown-based medical company.