Emergency services were called to the maximum security facility in Canning Vale about 8am on Thursday, after the 40-year-old was found unresponsive. Prison staff performed first aid before Paramedics ...

PERTH AMBOY — Joseph Vas, the once-powerful state assemblyman and Perth Amboy mayor, was sentenced today to serve six-and-a-half years in federal prison for corruption charges. U.S. District Court ...

PERTH AMBOY - Former Mayor Joseph Vas has returned to New Jersey, but he remains incarcerated, this time at a state Department of Corrections processing facility as he waits to serve the remaining ...

OHIO — Former assemblyman and Perth Amboy mayor Joseph Vas has a new address--the Elkton federal prison in Ohio. The former four-term mayor surrendered this morning to begin his 6 1/2 year federal ...

An inmate being held in custody while waiting for his next day in court has died after a fire in his cell at a prison in Perth. Authorities said staff were alerted to the blaze at Hakea Prison about 6 ...