Katie Sobko

6 days ago | northjersey.com | Kristie Cattafi |Katie Sobko

A jury is now deliberating on the federal bribery and corruption trial of former Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez. The trial began with jury selection on March 18 and stalled with days-long breaks in between testimony including this week, when federal prosecutors and defense attorneys met on Tuesday afternoon and there was no court held on Wednesday. The jury began deliberating after almost three weeks of testimony in the trial that had been expected to last through mid-May.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Katie Sobko

With New Jersey utility rate hikes expected to be rise by as much as $20 each month — or about 17% to 20% — for ratepayers when they go into effect this summer, talk in Trenton has revolved around how the state got here and what can be done to make sure it doesn't happen again. The rate hikes, approved by the state’s Board of Public Utilities in February, go into effect in June because electricity auction prices were higher as a result of higher demand and lower supply available.

1 week ago | northjersey.com | Katie Sobko

3-minute readThis is "Jeopardy!" the campaign edition. Yes, the New Jersey gubernatorial primary might still be months away but anyone who has flipped on America’s most beloved trivia game will have heard by now that Mayor Steve Fulop took a wrecking ball to corruption in Jersey City, that Rep. Josh Gottheimer is going to fight for New Jersey using common sense and that Sean Spiller — teacher’s union president — supports teachers. And that’s just one-half hour on one network five nights a week.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Katie Sobko

New Jersey’s two U.S. senators have called on the Trump administration to investigate the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old New Jersey boy, Amer Rabee, on April 6 in the West Bank. In a letter to President Donald Trump, Sen. Cory Booker and Sen.

1 week ago | njherald.com | Katie Sobko |Colleen Wilson

“If you don’t want to deal with some transportation issues, don’t come to the game," Alex Lasry, CEO of the regional host committee for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, said Thursday during a panel at the Meadowlands Chamber of Commerce’s annual tourism conference after explaining that his family takes no chances with traffic, joking that his father left the 1996 World Series Game 6 in the eighth inning to dodge the traffic.