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If you live in these towns, you need to get your COVID-19 vaccine, commissioners say

Featured News·New Jersey News·U.S. News by State

If you are not yet vaccinated, the Ocean County Board of Commissioners (formerly Freeholders) want you to know that it’s time to do so, now. The county has begun the transition from…

July 1, 2021

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Sussex County Man Admits Fraudulently Obtaining $5.6 Million Loan Meant to Help Small Businesses During COVID-19 Pandemic

New Jersey News

NEWARK, N.J. – A Sussex County, New Jersey, man today admitted fraudulently obtaining a federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan of over $5 million, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. Azhar…

July 1, 2021

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Former FEMA Employee Pleads Guilty to Fraudulently Obtaining the Proceeds of Covid-19 Paycheck Protection Program Loan

Breaking News

Baltimore, Maryland – Tyrese Carter, age 21, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, in connection with a scheme to obtain the proceeds of a COVID-19 Paycheck Protection Program Economic…

June 30, 2021

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Two felons sentenced to prison for scheme to steal thousands in COVID-19 unemployment insurance funds

Breaking News

SAVANNAH, GA: Two Florida residents who crashed their car while fleeing from a traffic stop have been sentenced to federal prison for colluding in a scheme to steal pandemic unemployment funds. Malik…

June 29, 2021

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Study suggests 5x more people had COVID-19 than were reported

Health and Wellness

For every person who had a positive COVID-19 test, researchers are now saying five times that amount probably had the virus and either had no symptoms or were ever diagnosed. In a…

June 26, 2021

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Nigerian National indicted in Washington State for fraud on COVID-19 economic relief programs

Breaking News

Seattle – A Nigerian citizen has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and multiple counts of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced…

June 25, 2021

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New Jersey COVID-19 Corps to knock on doors of the unvaccinated at the Shore this week

Atlantic County News·Cape May County News·Community News·Jersey Shore News·Monmouth County News·New Jersey News·Ocean County News

TOMS RIVER, NJ – We’re from the government…and we’re here to help you…get vaccinated. If you haven’t been vaccinated and you live at the Jersey Shore, you can expect a state official…

June 22, 2021

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Jury Convicts San Antonio Man for COVID-19-Related Hoax

Breaking News

SAN ANTONIO – A federal jury today convicted 40-year-old Christopher Charles Perez, aka “Christopher Robbins,” with perpetrating a COVID-19-related hoax in April of last year. Jurors convicted Perez on two counts of…

June 22, 2021

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Jerome M. Cruz Sentenced to Prison for Unemployment Fraud Charge Related to COVID-19 Pandemic

Breaking News

Hagatña, Guam – SHAWN N. ANDERSON, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant Jerome Michael Cruz, age 26, from Barrigada, Guam, was sentenced…

June 21, 2021

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As America investigates origins of COVID-19 China says Wuhan “Bat Woman” deserves a Nobel Prize

Breaking News

After giving the world a novel coronavirus, China now says the Wuhan Institute of Virology deserves a Novel Prize for medicine. This comes as President Joe Biden and his administration are counting…

June 21, 2021

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2,745 New Jersey contact tracers being retrained for non-COVID-19 tracing state says

Government News·New Jersey News

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy hired 2,700 contact tracers during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and their efforts essentially hit a brick wall. New Jersey wasn’t answering their calls. Murphy…

June 17, 2021

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Phil Murphy has deleted 43,000 COVID-19 positive case records from the state database

Featured News·New Jersey News

TRENTON, NJ – Over 43,000 positive COVID-19 cases have been deleted from the state’s official database of COVID-19 since early March. The Murphy administration has identified these cases as duplicates and errors.…

June 17, 2021

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‘As Long As You’re Not White, You Qualify’: Farmer Suing Biden Admin Over COVID-19 Relief Speaks Out

Politics

Jon Stevens, the owner of Maple Grove Farms in Minnesota, is suing the Biden administration over a loan forgiveness that is only available to minority farmers. Stevens spoke with the Daily Caller…

June 16, 2021

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Is a seven day NY transit bus pass enough to push you to get a COVID-19 vaccination?

New York News·Travel

ALBANY, NY – Are you on the fence about getting your COVID-19 vaccine shot? New York Governor Andrew Cuomo might have what it takes for you to roll up that sleeve and…

June 15, 2021

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Vermont reaches 80% vaccination rate, drops all COVID-19 restrictions

Cuomo: There will be unvaccinated people, that’s their problem if they catch COVID-19

New Jersey had 260 new COVID-19 positives today, all unvaccinated cases Murphy says

Featured News·New Jersey News

TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey reported a record low 260 new COVID-19 cases on Monday and Governor Phil Murphy said all of them were unvaccinated individuals. The governor said that since December…

June 14, 2021

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Two Charged as Co-Conspirators for Nearly $1 Million COVID-19 Relief Fraud Scheme and Money Laundering

Breaking News

A New York man and an Oklahoma woman were arrested Wednesday in Buffalo, New York and Altus, Oklahoma, respectively, on a criminal complaint filed in the Western District of New York charging…

June 14, 2021

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Trump was right: Hydroxychloroquine increases COVID-19 survival rate 100% study finds

Featured News·New Jersey News

Donald J. Trump was scorned by the media and disavowed by social media fact-checkers when on July 28th, 2020, he touted hydroxychloroquine after studies were showing the drug worked to help critical…

June 12, 2021

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Murphy has $11 billion in Trump COVID-19 funds, but no plan to use it to help New Jersey

Featured News·New Jersey News

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is under fire for once again refusing to release his plan for what to do with the $11 billion in COVID-19 recovery funds he was given by…

June 10, 2021

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