2+ week, 1+ day ago (197+ words) Here's a closer look at the best Group 1 players in New Jersey high school girls volleyball. We're turning to readers to decide which outside hitter, opposite is the best of the best in Group 1 in 2025. Ramapo is looking for its 14th consecutive victory. Watch the NJSIAA Group 3 boys soccer playoffs here. From Bogota senior Emma Fowler to Rutherford senior Mackenzie Vellis, Group 1 is loaded with big-time hitters. Defending Group 2 state champion Rumson-Fair Haven barely survived the first round of the 2025 NJSIAA playoffs. Mount Olive shut out Nutley in the first round 40-0 behind a remarkable performance from running back Brayden Longo. Democrats recorded sweeping victories in New Jersey, New York City, California, Virginia and other races. Here are the best Group 2 girls volleyball players, as voted by fans. Northern Highlands has posted 12 consecutive shutouts and is one of just two unbeaten teams…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago (404+ words) A New Jersey man whose teeth were knocked out by corrections officers at the Monmouth County Jail four years ago was awarded $525,000 on Monday following a two-week civil trial, his attorney said Tuesday. Kavan Costello, now 23, of Ocean Township, was arrested Feb. 17, 2020, when police found a handgun and Xanax in a vehicle in which Costello was a passenger, according to court papers. After arriving at the jail, Costello said four officers attacked him, knocking out two of his front teeth. Costello also suffered a black eye, con cussion, and "marks and bruises all over," his attorney, Brooke Barnett, of Newark, said Tuesday. Jailers dressed Costello in a pink jumpsuit, taunted him, and held him in an unheated cell for three days, according to his lawsuit, filed in state court on Aug. 5, 2021. Before trial, attorneys for the corrections officers offered Barnett…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago (407+ words) New Jersey's vibrant music and arts festival North to Shore is back for its third year. After two successful events in 2023 and 2024, the lineup for the enormous music and comedy fest was announced Tuesday during a press conference at Newark's Prudential Hall where festival organizers, politicians and fans gathered. North to Shore 2025 will run from June 14 through June 29 and take place in Atlantic City, Asbury Park and Newark. The festival will include performances from acts like Bleachers, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Jon Stewart, John Mulaney and Pete Davidson, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Jack's Manequinn, Stone Temple Pilots and more. North to Shore, which organizers call "the festival only Jersey can handle," was brought about by Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy. Newark-based Prudential Financial is returning as the lead sponsor. "Now for a third summer, we…...

7+ mon, 5+ day ago (415+ words) The star's mother reportedly spent all the money from the show Alana Thompson, known to many as Honey Boo Boo, is exposing her mother June "Mama June" Shannon in a new biopic on Lifetime.Courtesy of Lifetime A former child reality television star is slamming her mother in a new biopic surrounding her rise to fame. Alanah Thompson, known to many as Honey Boo Boo, is exposing the truth behind her family's fame during the run of its TLC reality show "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo." In the upcoming Lifetime biopic "I Was Honey Boo Boo," Thompson, now 19 years old, revealed that her mother, June "Mama June" Shannon, spent all the earnings from the reality show. The movie is set to air on May 17 at 8 p.m. on Lifetime. "You spent all the Honey Boo Boo money, $10,000 an episode just gone," Thompson's…...

11+ mon, 4+ day ago (44+ words) 3h ago Nyah Marshall Blaze destroys bayfront Jersey Shore mansion. Worker injured during cleanup. UGG just launched a huge "Holiday Sale" with up to 50% off popular styles, like the Classic ... New newsletter: The hot topics and hot takes we're DM'ing about IRL....

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9+ mon, 5+ day ago (422+ words) The Bergen Tech girls bowling team celebrates winning the NJSIAA North Jersey, Group 4 championship in North Brunswick on Feb. 25, 2025Steven Bassin | NJ Advance Media The morning session of Championship Tuesday saw eight sectional champions be crowned across the N.J. girls bowling landscape. In the North Jersey section, Bergen Tech, Holy Angels, North Arlington and Woodbridge all won a sectional championship and will compete in the group finals this afternoon at Bowerlo-North Brunswick. Below, is a quick recap of the sectional finals in the North Jersey section. Bergen Tech, the No. 3 ranked team in the NJ.com Top 20 ranking, got redemption from last year's loss in the sectional final last year to No. 11 Passaic Tech, with a 2-0 victory to win the sectional title. The top-seeded Knights tallied a two-game total of 1,641 to beat the two-seed Passaic Tech. Sophomore Kaitlyn Zenz led Bergen Tech…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago (414+ words) A member of a wildly popular "90s girl group recently revealed she has spent the last several years living out of her car. Dawn Robinson, founding member of the famed R&B group En Vogue, posted a YouTube video Tuesday explaining that hard times have forced her to live in her car. "For the past three, almost three years I have been living in my car," she said in the video. "I said it, oh my gosh, it's out." The singer, famous for En Vogue hits like "Free Your Mind" and "Hold On," said in the video she was living with her parents in Las Vegas back in 2020 before she ended up living in her car for a month. The Connecticut native said her co-manager then invited her to live at his place in Los Angeles, but that didn't work out…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago (419+ words) New Jersey's premier coffee shop just opened the doors on a new location. Treehouse Coffee Shop, the burgeoning Jersey City cafe that claimed the No. 1 spot on NJ.com's coffee shop ranking, just opened its third location. The new Treehouse shop, also known as "Treehouse 3" is located at 75 Bright St. in the Van Vorst Park neighborhood of Jersey City's historic downtown. The shop's soft opening, which included its full menu, took place on Aug. 15. A grand opening ceremony is expected to be held sometime in September, although an exact date has yet to be determined. Treehouse's first shop opened on Jersey City's West Side back in 2019. A second shop with a larger seating area opened downtown on Brunswick Street in 2023. Owner Frank Young told NJ Advance Media the company's success and expansion has come out of necessity. "We felt like…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago (425+ words) The chain las landed on multiple best of the best lists from NJ.com. One of New Jersey's fastest-growing Mexican restaurant chains is preparing to enter uncharted territory. Tacoria Mexican Street Kitchen, the burgeoning fast-casual eatery, plans to open in Cherry Hill this summer. This new location will mark the company's first Camden County outpost and its second restaurant in South Jersey. The acclaimed taco and burrito joint will open in the Park Place at Garden State Park shopping center, taking over the space that formerly housed &pizza. Tacoria is eyeing a June opening, although an exact date has yet to be determined. The Mexican chain will join brands like Shake Shack, Trader Joe's and Chopt Creative Salad Company in the shopping complex. The new location is the latest expansion for Tacoria. The New Brunswick-based chain ventured south of Mercer…...