An otherwise “well-maintained” prison in South Jersey was found to suffer from severe overcrowding, overwhelming heat in the summer and no dining area, according to an inspection report published by New Jersey’s Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson.

Bayside State Prison, originally named Leesburg Prison, is a mixed-security prison in Leesburg in Cumberland County originally built in 1971.

Terry Schuster, the New Jersey Corrections Ombudsperson, said that the inspection report for Bayside was...

Nine law enforcement officers in Ocean County were subject to “major discipline” in 2025, according to an annual report the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office updated on June 25.

In this year’s report, situations that prompted major disciplinary action ranged from a sergeant working on a scheduled day off without permission to a patrolman being charged with the sexual assault of a minor. It also included infractions for illegal drug use, falsifying records, harassment of protected classes, sh...

Ever since he learned how to dance, Alfredo Uraga has not stopped.

It’s been 20 years.

Uraga, 55, is a cook from Mexico who lives in Middletown. He said he has danced from place to place — from New York City, to New Brunswick, to Jersey City — he has travelled far and wide to be able to dance salsa and bachata.

“There was no place [nearby] where we could go,” Uraga said in Spanish, chuckling.

That was before he found Jersey Shore Salsa. Now, Uraga attends almost every event they host.

Emily Williams’ father was the best French chef there was, by her standards. Williams’ favorite recipe of his was pulled from a Julia Child cookbook — the tarte aux pommes, or apple tart. It features a shortcrust pastry base, glazed apple slices and lots of butter.

“Every time we make a French dish, I think of him,” Williams said.

Williams’ father died when she was a young adult, after a fall in his rural Maine home. He was 76.

“If you’re an isolated adult and you’re kind of in trouble,...

Ten-year-old River Bernstein owns a car. 
It’s a classic 1906 Orient Buckboard – manufactured by the Waltham Manufacturing Company under the leadership of Charles Herman Metz – and a recent gift from his grandparents, Frank and Linda Bernstein. 
But the sixth grader at Gideon Welles Middle School in Glastonbury, Conn., says his classmates are skeptical of his story. “So I say, I have a car. They say, ‘No, you don’t, you’re too young to have a car.’ And I say, ‘Look, I’ll show you a picture...