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- Jersey City police have arrested and charged a 19-year-old Bayonne man in connection with the gruesome June 13 hit and run on Marin Boulevard at 6th Street. Meanwhile, the 52-year-old victim of the incident has come out of his induced coma, and is now considered in stable condition.

- If you live at 317-343 Fairmount Ave. or 62 Kensington Ave., be prepared for a likely rent increase. The buildings, which are reportedly 80 percent occupied, were recently sold for $12.5 million. The buyer is planning “comprehensive renovations,” which, as GlobeSt.com notes, usually leads the owner to “reposition the property and leverage higher market rents.”

- The biggest problem for Liberty Humane Society’s “Single, Mingle and Bark” singles networking fundraiser? Women outnumbered men by a seven to one ratio. Other than that, LHS officials say, the event was a success.

- A Jersey City man has pleaded guilty to bilking investors of nearly $1 million by persuading them to invest in a business that was not in operation.

In statewide news:

- The Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee has approved a bolstered version of the 2009-10 state budget that restores property tax rebates for households with an annual income of $75,000 or less.

- The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Supreme Court Justice Barry T. Albin’s bid for tenure on the state’s highest court.

- Lawmakers have scaled back an open-space borrowing proposal that is likely to be on the November ballot from $600 million to $400 million.

- State Sen. Loretta Weinberg says lawmakers should act on the bill she introduced last year to strengthen the state’s Open Public Meetings Act. The legislation is stuck in committee.

- As part of its FIOS TV service, Verizon is launching a hyperlocal news channel covering New Jersey.

- A Florida-based financial firm has agreed to pay 14 states, including New Jersey, $9 million to help them oversee the company’s mortgage lending practices.