Dan Alexander

Ever since he was a precocious 5 year old who read the Bergen Record and then published his own neighborhood newspaper, Dan Alexander has always had an interest in the news. Alexander says he learns something new on this job everyday and that's what keeps it interesting. Alexander has been with New Jersey 101.5 for the past 10 years on the digital team writing news and working behind the scenes on a variety of projects.

NJ high school graduate killed in New Orleans terror attack

Billy DiMaio, 25, a graduate of Holmdel High School was in New Orleans to celebrate New Year's Eve and see friends who planned to go to the Sugar Bowl, according to his parents.

Former Princeton Tiger football player dies in New Orleans attack

Kim Broussard, the athletic director at St. Thomas More Catholic High School in Lafayette, Louisana, told KLFY TV and other outlets that Tiger Bech was taken to a hospital after the attack where he was kept on life support until his family arrived.

6-year-old dies after getting trapped in burning Ewing high-rise

The first arriving police officers at the fire at an apartment building in Ewing went inside after residents told them a child was trapped by smoke and flames in a fourth floor unit.

Stolen gun from NJ found on terror driver who killed 14 in NOLA, report says

A .308 rifle stolen in New Jersey was found in the pickup along with a Glock pistol, a high level New Orleans police source told Fox News.

NJ sex offender proposes on video before murdering fiancee, cops say

Jose Melo, 52, was charged with one count of first-degree murder a day after posting video of his marriage proposal to the victim.

NJ high school student, ‘remarkable young man,’ dies in holiday crash

Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolonda Ciccone said 15-year-old was the front seat passenger in a 1998 Buick that hit a utility pole along the southbound lanes of Route 130 around 7:25 a.m.

NJ borough put on lockdown as man is charged with attempted murder

Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago said a manhunt started after investigators determined Daniel Williams, 52, was responsible for the shooting of a woman at a home in Allentown the afternoon of New Years Eve.

NJ county runs out of money, can’t pay public safety workers this week

Workers in the public safety director's office, Office of Emergency Management and Emergency Medical Services were told their paychecks were delayed by a week.

Amid NJ drone sightings, alarming increase in laser attacks on airplanes

Laser incidents reported by pilots have increased 269% over the same period last year, according to the FAA.

More alarmist NJ drone theories floated by lawmakers turn out to be a dud

The White House says it can explain the drones that Rep. Chris Smith says trailed a Coast Guard ship as police search for a drone that reportedly crashed.

Radioactive waste that went missing from NJ is found — without drones

The small pin has been located and the the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) hasA minuscule amount of radioactive waste that went missing on Dec. 2 — reports of which prompted theories that the drones were secretly searching for radioactive substances or a dirty bomb — has been found. And no drones were used in the process.

Amid drone frenzy, nuclear agency says radioactive object missing in NJ

Belleville Mayor Michael Melham joined a long list of mayor disappointed in the information coming from state and federal agencies about the drones.