Kristie Cattafi

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 | Kristie Cattafi |David M. Zimmer

Polls will open at 2 p.m. Tuesday for a handful of New Jersey school districts opting to hold April school board elections. Of the state's almost 600 school districts, 16 hold spring elections, and the others have them on Election Day in November. The districts with spring elections are: Cliffside Park, Fairview, Lodi, Garfield, Irvington, Newark, Monroe, North Bergen, Weehawken, West New York, New Brunswick, Randolph, Passaic, Totowa, Byram and Westfield.

1 week ago | dailyrecord.com | Kristie Cattafi |David M. Zimmer

Polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday for a handful of New Jersey school districts opting to hold April school board elections. Of the state's almost 600 school districts, 16 hold spring elections, and the others have them on Election Day in November. The districts with spring elections are: Cliffside Park, Fairview, Lodi, Garfield, Irvington, Newark, Monroe, North Bergen, Weehawken, West New York, New Brunswick, Randolph, Passaic, Totowa, Byram and Westfield.

2 weeks ago | northjersey.com | Kristie Cattafi

PALISADES PARK — The Board of Education will give an update on teacher contract negotiations at its next meeting, on April 11, the first since getting a vote of no confidence from the teachers' union. The Palisades Park Education Association passed a vote of no confidence in the school board last month after working under an expired contract since June 2024. The majority of the membership approved the no-confidence measure after contract negotiations stalled.

3 weeks ago | northjersey.com | Kristie Cattafi |Katie Sobko

The federal bribery and corruption trial of former Sen. Bob Menendez's wife, Nadine Arslanian Menendez, has been adjourned until Monday, April 7. The prosecution's star witness, Jose Uribe — one of the three businessmen originally indicted along with Menendez — was expected to take the stand this week, but motions and delays in assembling witness lists from both the prosecution and the defense appear to have delayed the trial's progress.