I'm a Princeton-born and raised New Jersey native. I spent four years covering local news in Lower Bucks County PA before coming to New Jersey 101.5. When I'm not in the Newsroom, there's a good chance my neighbors can hear me playing electric bass through the walls.
Rick Rickman
Tensions boil over at RWJ strike as nurses and security clash
Three people have filed police reports after striking RWJ nurses and a hospital security guard got physical on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023.
NJ is training Black men to become teachers for $500K a year
The state of New Jersey has budgeted $500,000 each year since FY 2022 to fund its MOCHA pilot program to train men of color to become teachers.
New Jersey’s first wine school, brewery hit by early morning fire
A fire that broke out around 1:30 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2023 has temporarily closed Toms River Brewing and the Bacchus School of Wine in Ocean County, NJ.
Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites soar over Jersey Shore
New Jersey had 22 bright Starlink satellites travel across the night sky Saturday around 8:45 p.m. after they were launched from Florida.
Masks back at South Jersey hospital — are COVID mandates returning?
One NJ hospital, Cape Regional Medical Center in Middle Township, is mandating masks again in September 2023 amid a small increase in COVID-19 cases.
NJ nonprofit caught sneaking gender lessons into schools so parents can’t opt out
A Princeton non-profit HiTOPS has been caught sneaking gender, sex, and LGBT lessons into Mercer County, NJ schools, according to a Project Veritas video.
NJ woman paid teen $5,000 in revenge plot to shoot her stabber
Rashanah Camper of Atlantic City has pleaded guilty to attempted murder for a 2019 revenge plot in which she paid a 16-year-old to shoot another woman.
Ex-Christie aide paid for sex with 6-year-old girl, cops say
Former Gov. Chris Christie staffer Kevin Tomafsky of Washington Township (Gloucester) is charged with child sex crimes involving a dad of a six-year-old girl, officials say.
Watch out for wild alligator loose in NJ brook
An alligator is loose in Ambrose Brook in Middlesex Borough and police are warning that people should not approach it.
NJ crypto bro charged in $600K scam targeting cops & firefighters, feds say
Former NJ corrections officer John DeSalvo is facing federal charges for two scams involving his Blazar Token cryptocurrency, federal prosecutors say.