Nov. 05, 2024 21:02 PM EST
Democrat LaMonica McIver won election to a U.S. House seat representing New Jersey on Tuesday. McIver defeated Republican Carmen Bucco and a handful of third-party candidates. The victory in the 10th Congressional District is her second in two months; she won a special election in September for the seat, which...
Sep. 18, 2024 21:20 PM EDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Democratic Newark City Council President LaMonica McIver has defeated Republican small businessman Carmen Bucco in a contest in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District that opened up because of the death of Rep. Donald Payne Jr. in April.
McIver will serve...
Sep. 13, 2024 09:06 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in New Jersey’s 10th Congressional District will choose a successor on Wednesday to the late Democratic U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr., who died in April after more than 11 years in office.
Running to replace him are Democrat LaMonica McIver, president of the...
Aug. 22, 2024 00:02 AM EDT
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., a 14-term incumbent and a fixture in his hometown of Paterson for more than four decades, died Wednesday. He was 87.
Pascrell had been in and out of the hospital with an illness recently. He died Wednesday morning...