Werner Foerster Archives - New Jersey Globe

Joanne Chesimard, convicted in infamous murder of NJ trooper, dies in Cuba

September 26, 2025 10:39 amSeptember 26, 2025 7:47 pm

Cuba’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Joanne Chesimard, a member of the Black Liberation Army convicted in the 1973 murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, died Thursday at age 78. She became one of the state’s most infamous...

Rabner exhorts governor, legislature to address Supreme Court vacancies

May 20, 2022 10:44 amMay 20, 2022 12:49 pm

With one seat on the seven-member New Jersey Supreme Court vacant, another occupied by a temporary replacement judge, and a third held by a permanent justice who will hit the mandatory retirement age in seven weeks, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner...

Temporary Supreme Court Justice who was deciding vote on cop killer release got to the bench as part of an old-fashioned political deal

May 16, 2022 12:40 amMay 16, 2022 5:12 pm

When the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the release of a notorious cop killer last week, the deciding vote was cast by Jose L. Fuentes, a onetime Hudson County political insider with ambitions for high public office, who is on...

State Police mourn Werner Foerster

May 2, 2019 5:00 amMay 2, 2019 9:43 am

On May 2, New Jersey’s state troopers mourn the death of Trooper Werner Foerster. “The lasting wounds of the assassination of Trooper Werner Foerster #2608 on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike forty-six years ago today are far from...

Group seeks end to trade, travel restrictions with Cuba

March 26, 2019 8:00 amMarch 26, 2019 7:05 am

A group of New Jersey political and business leaders will push for statewide support to lift trade and travel restrictions on Cuba. New Jersey will become the 19th state to join Engage Cuba, a Washington-based lobbying group that advocates pro-engagement policies on...

Hugin says U.S.-Cuba relations starts with Chesimard return

May 2, 2018 4:45 pm

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Hugin marked the 45th anniversary of the death of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster with a statement calling on Cuba to return his killer, Joanne Chesimard, to the United States. “It is with sadness...