A three-alarm fire on March 14 above Chris’s Family Diner on South Orange Avenue damaged the diner itself, the apartments above it and nearby businesses, including Ambiance Jewelers and Gladys’s Nail Salon. The damage forced the businesses to temporarily close as owners assess next steps and begin recovery efforts.
The College of Arts and Sciences has unveiled a new Social Sciences Hub in Jubilee Hall, creating a centralized space designed to foster collaboration, connection and academic support for students across disciplines.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D) and Rep. Tom Kean, Jr. (R), who represent New Jersey’s 5th and 7th congressional districts, respectively, introduced the Seton Hall Fire Victims Remembrance Act of 2026 on Jan. 22 in commemoration of the 26th anniversary of the fatal Boland Hall fire at Seton Hall.
A three-alarm blaze at Chris’s Family Diner on East South Orange Avenue Saturday afternoon burned for more than two hours, damaging the diner and nearby businesses as firefighters worked to contain it.According to officials, the fire started on the second floor of the building around 3 p.m. The structure houses Chris’s Family Diner on the ground floor with apartments above. Flames quickly spread to the adjoining building where Ambiance Jewelers and Glady’s Nail Salon are located.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed lawsuits against five states, including New Jersey, on Feb. 26, alleging the states failed to comply with federal requests to provide voter registration records.
Social media has changed the way we talk about food, bodies, and health. On TikTok and Instagram, trends like “girl dinner” and “what I eat in a day” videos turn eating into performance and discipline into identity.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the federal government’s plan to convert a newly acquired Roxbury warehouse into an immigration detention center in a letter to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Feb. 27.
An internal Department of Justice (DOJ) review led by Jordan Fox, associate deputy attorney general and chief of staff in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, found that federal authorities violated more than 50 immigration-related orders from federal judges in New Jersey over a 10-week period.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing New Jersey over Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s executive order that prohibits U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from making arrests on nonpublic state-owned property.
Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel to Barack Obama and current top lawyer at Goldman Sachs, was brought in by the law firm Latham & Watkins in 2018 to review investigations into allegations that former Archbishop of Newark, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, had sexually harassed seminarians at Seton Hall’s Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology (ICS). At the same time, and for years prior, Ruemmler was in frequent communication with convicted sex offender, human trafficker and financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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