Welcome to The LaRuelist Report website. This site was founded by Jeannine Frisby-LaRue in 2001 and pretty much focuses on human interest, political, and social media news.

LaRuelist Report tends to veer away from the traditional smut political article...   Read More >>

More than 500 friends, family members, former colleagues and admirers paid their last respects to former police chief and director Ernie Williams at Galilee Baptist Church yesterday, recalling his service to the city across five decades and his deep commitment to the community.

TRENTON — New Jersey’s standards for eyewitness testimony in the courtroom is unreliable and can encourage police misconduct, the state Supreme Court said today in ordering a revision of investigative and court practices.

Two days before the deadline for a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached agreement Sunday on a legislative package that would extend the federal debt ceiling while cutting spending and guaranteeing further deficit-reduction steps.

The proposed deal, which still requires congressional approval, brought some immediate relief to global markets closely watching the situation play out and to a...   Read More >>

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority settled at least seven lawsuits in the last year and a half — amounting to nearly $1 million in payouts to plaintiffs — rather than take its chances on long, costly court battles.

Among them was a $60,000 settlement with a man left with chronic back, hip and leg pain after a fall at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. In another case, the authority agreed to pay up to $150,000 for the legal fees of a parapleg...   Read More >>

The state must pay thousands of corrections officers back pay for their participation in a pilot program that lasted 10 years beyond its experimental phase, a Superior Court judge says.

If the ruling is allowed to stand, the state will be responsible for millions of dollars in compensation for new corrections officers whom the court said worked under a job title that didn’t officially exist from 1999 to 2009 during a 14-week training period.Read More >>

New Jersey’s public worker pension and health benefits increases should be revoked for state judges because they unconstitutionally slash their salaries and undermine judicial independence, a state Superior Court judge claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The complaint, filed Thursday by Superior Court Judge Paul DePascale, who sits in Hudson County, is the first legal challenge to the landmark health and benefit law enacted last month. State p...   Read More >>

An ordinance that would require eateries in Newark to hire armed guards if they want to remain open after 9 p.m. has been vetoed by Mayor Cory Booker.

Booker said the restaurants are only linked to 2 percent of all violent crime in Newark, and the ordinance would leave the city vulnerable to lawsuits and force restaurants to incur extra costs.

"There are many businesses that would be caught up in these extreme costs associated with a...   Read More >>

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday said he will order state officials to quickly implement New Jersey’s medical marijuana program, a move growers say could allow the drug to be sold to chronically ill patients by the end of the year.

Christie said the state health department should “move forward as expeditiously as possible,” lifting a three-month hold he imposed while waiting for federal law enforcement officials to tell him whether state...   Read More >>

Four inmates from Middlesex County Jail sat quietly in a courtroom jury box on a recent afternoon, waiting to face the judge. One by one they stood up, rejected the prosecutor’s plea offers and requested trials.

Unable to hide his frustration, Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz turned to the criminal case manager and the two looked over his trial calendar.

It was booked solid through October. But these inmates had been languishing in ja...   Read More >>