NEWARK, N.J. — New state Treasury Department data shows that retirements in New Jersey's police and firefighter pension system have swelled by 48 percent over the past two years.
We don't know if we'll see Cameron Diaz feeding popcorn to A-Rod in a luxury box at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis Sunday night like she did last year, but we do know that Gov. Christie will be there.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Gamblers at Atlantic City casinos may someday be able to place bets while standing in line for dinner, in a lounge, or beside a swimming pool.
In 1966, Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, gas cost 32 cents a gallon and Americans competed to be the first on their block with a color TV. And in Trenton, lawmakers introduced a bill to make Red Mascara's "I'm From New Jersey" the official state song.
Senate Democrats will ask state Supreme Court nominee Phillip Kwon to turn over tax documents from his family's New York wine and liquor store, which recently forfeited nearly $160,000 to settle federal civil charges over more than $2 million in illegal bank deposits, sources said Friday.
We've seen it over and over: A sex assault allegation is made on a college campus. The school does its own internal investigation — without notifying outside law enforcement. It's all very hush-hush and nobody is charged.
What if they gave an election and nobody came? That is nearly true of school elections in New Jersey, which typically cost between $7 million and $9 million to arrange. And they draw just 10 to 15 percent of registered voters to the polls.
As a transportation bill, it's already being called "the worst bill ever." House Republicans in Washington have taken a critical bill, which funds federal transportation projects for five years, and slashed money for bike paths, Amtrak and clean air protection, while opening virtually all U.S. coastlines and Arctic preserves to oil drilling.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
