Garden State Parkway lane closed indefinitely for emergency bridge repairs

MONMOUTH COUNTY — One northbound local lane on the Garden State Parkway will be closed “indefinitely” for emergency bridge repairs, officials said. The closure north of exit 109 is necessary because the…

Report: Police called 750 Times to Troubled Downtown Motel

TOMS RIVER — Police have filed a public nuisance complaint against a motel after police have been called to more than 750 times in less than three years to the business. Toms…

Author Says “Trump is One of Us”

President Donald Trump was not born in the conservative movement, but he is doing conservative things, says Lee Edwards, a fellow in at the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government. Edwards, a…

Millionaire Murphy Leading Guadagno by 14 points in Polls

TRENTON — Democrat Phil Murphy is holding steady with a 14-point lead over Republican Kim Guadagno with less than a week left in the race to succeed Chris Christie as New Jersey’s…

Phil Murphy: Terrorist “Jerk” No Reason to End Immigration Amnesty Program

TRENTON — The “jerk” at the center of the deadly New York City bike path attack that killed eight people and left at least 11 injured should not automatically put an end…

Houston Astros beat LA Dodgers 5-1 to win World Series

The Houston Astros did it. They beat the LA Dodgers to win the 2017 World Series. After enduring devastating floods from Hurricane Harvey, it could not have come at a better time.…

4 more charged in Lakewood fraud sweep seek pre-trial program

TOMS RIVER – Four Lakewood residents accused of wrongfully collecting thousands in public benefits appeared in Superior Court in Ocean County on Wednesday, and their cases will proceed to a grand jury.…

At Least 8 Killed by New York Motorist in ‘Cowardly Act of Terror’

At least eight people were killed Tuesday and more than a dozen others were injured when a man drove a rented truck onto a busy bike path in New York City. “Based…

Mom gets $2.5M settlement from crash while dropping daughter at school

HOWELL — A Howell woman badly injured when her car was rear-ended while she dropped her daughter off at school three years ago has settled her lawsuit for $2.5 million, her attorney…

Did this NJ Township Try to Ban Orthodox Jews?

A New Jersey town discriminated against Orthodox Jews when it barred them from a specific religious practice as part of an “archaic, fear-driven and discriminatory mindset,” a lawsuit charges. The State of…

3 New Jersey towns sued for laws banning eruv construction

Three New Jersey towns are being sued for legislating against the construction of an eruv in their borders. The frontrunner in the state”s gubernatorial race also criticized the towns” actions in an…

These 3 things are stressing Jersey out the most, poll says

NEW BRUNSWICK — What frays New Jerseyans’ nerves the most? Parkway traffic? Trenton politics? Family woes? No, it’s money. A new poll by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy found 27…

Hardest hit Sandy victims unhappy with N.J. recovery 5 years later, poll says

More than half of the Superstorm Sandy victims that have been tracked in the five years since the storm decimated New Jersey are still dissatisfied with the state’s recovery efforts, a new…

Five Years After Sandy, Superstorm Continues to Punish Survivors

When the eye of Sandy made landfall just north of Atlantic City five years ago this Sunday, Fran Baronowitz’s neighborhood – which was a few miles away in Ventnor – suddenly turned…

Jersey Shore condo group is latest to push back against dune plans

TOMS RIVER — Trying to beat back the state’s ongoing push for a continuous dune along New Jersey’s Atlantic coastline, a condominium association outside of Island Beach State Park is suing to…

‘I just want justice,’ says husband of woman fatally struck by off-duty cop

LONG BRANCH – When Karen Borkowski was fatally struck by a car driven by an off-duty Long Branch officer last month, she was attempting to cross the street to purchase bandages at…

New Report Shows New Jersey Is Still on the ‘Long Road Home’ After Sandy

On Oct. 29, 2012, hurricane Sandy devastated many communities along New Jersey’s coast. Five years later, many families have yet to recover from the storm and are still not back in their…

N.J. has lots to do to avoid another Sandy catastrophe | Editorial

If the back-to-back-to-back hurricanes that slammed parts of the country earlier this autumn taught us anything, it’s that that next major storm is not a matter of if, it’s a matter of…

Monday commute looks ugly after flooding and heavy winds

Forecasters are advising drivers to avoid standing water left on roads Monday after a coastal storm making its way up the East Coast unleashed heavy rainfall in New Jersey. The National Weather…

Driver dies in head-on crash after fleeing other collision, police say

LAKEWOOD – A man was killed in a head-on collision Saturday night after he had fled the scene of another crash, according to police. German Alonso Velasquez Gonzalez, 41, of Toms River,…

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