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Sources tell News10NBC that Assemblyman Bill Nojay has committed suicide. Officers were called to the Riverside Cemetery on Lake Avenue around 9:20 Friday morning for reports of shots fired. Sources say Nojay, 59, was found dead due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The New York Daily News reports Nojay was at his family burial plot. Investigator Frank Camp says officers saw a man shoot himself. At this time investigators are not making a connection to Bill Nojay. The investigation is ongoing. We're told Nojay was supposed to turn himself in on Friday for fraud charges. According to a report from...

The approval comes one year after Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill into law allowing certain undocumented immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates. In 2013, Christie and Democratic leaders reached a compromise to remove a clause in the bill that also would have offered the same undocumented immigrants state aid to help pay for their higher education.“We have the opportunity to allow all children in this state now to go to college and to go to college in an affordable manner. It provides opportunity and it makes New Jersey the kind of place that all of us want to...

In this video, NY Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin is asked to keep quiet a proposal by Democrats to confiscate guns:

State Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina) was driving a state car away from the Sacramento area without the required permission when he was arrested last month on suspicion of drunken driving, officials said Friday. Hernandez was stopped by police in Concord at 2 a.m. on March 27 after officers saw his car weaving between lanes. At the time, Hernandez was driving a Toyota Camry owned by the state and assigned to the Assembly’s vehicle pool. Such vehicles are not supposed to be driven out of the Sacramento area without permission, which Hernandez failed to get for his Concord trip, .....

New York - In a letter to Brooklyn College President Dr. Karen L. Gould, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) decried the recent appointment of Adjunct Professor Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton who was hired to teach a Politics of the Middle East graduate course this spring at the College. Several concerned Brooklyn College political science graduate students, including Dina Kupfer, contacted the Assemblyman who, in turn, wrote to Dr. Gould after reviewing the grossly biased course syllabus and researching Petersen-Overton’s professional background and published works. Mr. Petersen-Overton has authored a number of anti-Israel papers, including one entitled, Inventing the Martyr: Martyrdom as Palestinian...

Veterans In Politics Talk Show Introduces Trudy Platzer and Assemblyman Hambrick LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net January 24: Trudy Platzer CEO/Founder for the Las Vegas Railroad Society: John Hambrick Nevada State Assemblyman District 2: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson and Co-Hosted by Jilrean "Sage" Bocook. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and hosts at (702) 942-7371.

In the latest public flaring of labor-management tensions at state prisons, the head of the California Department of Corrections on Wednesday called for Assemblyman Rudy Bermúdez, D-Norwalk, to step down from a position overseeing the department's budget. In a letter to Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, Corrections Director Jeannie Woodford charged that Bermúdez has a conflict of interest because he is on leave from a job as a state parole officer. At a hearing Tuesday, Bermúdez, who chairs the Assembly's budget subcommittee on prisons, complained about the department's investigation into the slaying of a correctional officer by an inmate last month...

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - A state Assemblyman has sent a letter to the adult entertainment industry asking it to adopt safe-sex measures or face the possibility of a state law that would push performers to use condoms. Assemblyman Paul Koretz, chairman of the Labor and Employment Committee, said adult film stars should receive workplace health-and-safety protections, just like other Californians. "I strongly encourage and fully expect the adult entertainment industry to require the use of condoms," said Koretz, a Democrat from West Hollywood, in a letter mailed to 185 porn producers and publishers Monday. "Failure to do so is irresponsible...

Assembly speaker tries to get abortion issue on November ballot By John P. Mcalpin, Associated Press, 11/29/2001 14:52 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) New Jersey voters might get their say next November on a plan that could require parents be notified before their underage daughter gets an abortion. Outgoing Assembly Speaker Jack Collins, R-Salem, is trying to force the parental notification measure through the lame duck Legislature. Lawyers are screening state laws to see if a vote in December and then another in January meet a requirement that gets the constitutional amendment before voters in the next general election. Collins vowed Thursday ...

Senate candidate's exposure brings party disapproval By Monica Yant Kinney Inquirer Columnist With all due respect to my good friend Boss Norcross and the no-show job scandal rocking the South Jersey machine, the hottest political story in the state involves male genitalia from way up north. I speak of Jim Morrison, the Sussex County lawyer/helicopter pilot/TV personality running for state Senate - not the dead guy from The Doors. Morrison, some of you may know, achieved fame as an openly gay finalist on the ABC reality show The Mole a couple of years ago. He became such a household name...

<p>The former Fresno-area lawmaker provided a key Republican vote for last year's budget, which was two months overdue.</p> <p>A former Republican assemblyman who delivered key state budget votes for Democrats the last two years has surfaced as a paid horse racing consultant to the Assembly's top Democrat.</p>