In 1997, Tom Foley was trying to carry a man from a burning building when he fell down the stairs.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jersey City library is cutting back on hours, with most branches open only two Saturdays through end of year The Jersey City Free Public Library is scaling back hours and closing most of its branches on Saturdays due to budget cuts.

The Hudson County Board of Freeholders spent over an hour tonight debating whether to renew Arakmark's contract to provide food to inmates and staff at the Hudson County Jail in Kearny.

JERSEY CITY - A power failure on Truck Routes 1 & 9 at Charlotte Circle is causing a 15-to-20 minute traffic delay in the northbound lanes, according to a report on 511nj.org , the Department of Transportation's traffic website.

Mary DiNardo and her daughter, Gwen, 5, attend the Legacy of Heroes commemorative event honoring Detective Marc DiNardo at Liberty State Park in Jersey City on July 21.

Five people have now been charged in conspiring to steal $420,000 from New Jersey City University.

Jersey City artist Vincent Zambrano's first Hudson County exhibit, "The Sleep of Doubt," is opening in town on Thursday, Sept.

Three people are charged as co-conspirators in an alleged scheme that authorities say bilked more than $400,000 from student government funds at New Jersey City University.

According to columnist Earl Morgan, decades of tax abatements handed out to developers in Jersey City shortchanged the municipal coffers and its residents.

Belinda Mays Stokes, former principal of Liberty High School, will head Jersey City's Snyder High School this year.

Jerry Herman, Jersey City-born Broadway composer and lyricist, will join Oprah Winfrey, former Beatle Paul McCartney, country singer-songwriter Merle Haggard and dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones as the honorees in the Kennedy Center Honors.

Residents Can Live the Good Life Without Leaving Home Trump Plaza Residences in Jersey City, a luxury residential high-rise, offers residents all of the advantages of resort living without leaving home.

In the latest development over the no-kill saga surrounding Liberty Humane Society , the Jersey City animal shelter has filed a lawsuit over comments on a Facebook fan page.

Jersey City Deputy Mayor Rosemary McFadden will take on an additional role as Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy's chief of staff when Dominick Pandolfo leaves next week to become director of special projects in the Business Administrator's Office.

A Jersey City floater found in the Newark Bay over the weekend was shot dead with a shotgun, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said today.

Jersey City Ward E Councilman Steven Fulop is not mentioned by the letter author but it seems obvious that he is the target.

A 30-year-old man was shot to death in his Jersey City apartment on Tuesday morning, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.

Members and supporters of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests , from left, Kevin Waldrip, Lou Serrano, Mark Crawford, Kerri , of Bergen County Rape Crisis Center, and Stephen Marlowe, pose outside the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart before delivering a letter to the Archdiocese of Newark last month.

Taylor Siebel looks at the Bayonne 9/11 memorial during the memorial service on Friday, Sept.

"Clear Blue Tuesday," a rock musical film chronicling nine New Yorkers' lives after 9/11, is screening at New Jersey City University at 6 p.m. tonight.