New Jersey

Koiari Rugby Team Boosted

The club is a select side from the Koiari rugby league and participates in the Southern Super League Port Moresby second-tier competition.

A recent launch and presentation of the new jerseys was witnessed by chairmen of various traditional landowner groups, Water PNG senior executives. The support is part of an ongoing sponsorship arrangement worth about K45,000 per season.

The event reaffirms Water PNG’s significant commitment and partnership with the land and water resource owners of Koiari.

Rapper Fetty Wap injured after motorcycle crash in New Jersey

Paterson Police Director Jerry Speziale told NBC New York that the 25-year-old entertainer was said to be in stable condition at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center where he was being treated for undisclosed injuries after his motorcycle collided with a car.

While Wap's injuries are not considered life-threatening, police said he was ticketed for unlicensed and uninsured operation of a vehicle and with failure to produce a vehicle registration. E! News has reached out to the rapper's rep for comment.

Man charged with killing 7 in 2 states is due in court

Twenty-two-year-old Todd West and two co-defendants face a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on homicide and robbery counts.

Police have said West confessed to the July 5 shooting deaths of a man and a woman in Allentown.

West, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, is charged separately with four homicides in Elizabeth and a fifth homicide in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Twin brothers found shot to death inside car in New Jersey

Police found 26-year-old Markice and Maurice Harper dead in Camden just after 7:30 a.m. Friday.

The Camden County prosecutor's office says the brothers were from the Fairview section of Camden.

The vehicle has been identified as a silver 2011 Jeep SUV.

Authorities believe the brothers were shot hours before a passing motorist called 911.

Man gets 15 months in prison for carving swastika into lawn

Scott Cooney of Lakewood was sentenced Friday. He had pleaded guilty in June to bias intimidation.

The judge said Cooney had written threatening and bias letters to the victims despite an order not to have contact with them.

VIDEO: NJ Governor Christie announces 2016 run

The Republican governor launched his campaign at his former high school in the town of Livingston, New Jersey.

Christie enters a Republican presidential field that already has more than a dozen candidates.

Christie says he's running in 2016 to 'change the world'

The Republican governor formally announced his plans in a Tuesday morning event in the gymnasium of his old high school.

He says both political parties "have failed our country" in an announcement speech calling for more compromise in politics.

Christie was once thought to be a leading White House contender, but his star has faded over the last year. He's been hurt by a traffic scandal involving senior aides and a lagging state economy.

He joins a GOP field that already includes more than a dozen candidates.