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Byline: MATT FRIEDMAN and STEVE STRUNSKY, STATE HOUSE BUREAU With Democrats poised to introduced gay marriage legislation as the first bill of the upcoming legislative session, advocates say the chances [...]

Byline: STEVE STRUNSKY and CHRIS MEGERIAN, STATE HOUSE BUREAU In his rookie year in office, Governor Christie has treated the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey as if [...]

JERSEY CITY - Sixty years after the 10th Armored Division helped defend the Belgian city of Bastogne, Louis Cerruti is still fighting for more recognition of his unit's pivotal role [...]

NEWARK - A former nurse who claims to have killed more than 40 patients at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering a Jersey City judge [...]

NEWARK - Marshaling hip-hop's influence on young listeners, a city official and youth activist joined celebrities of the rap and mainstream entertainment worlds Wednesday in announcing a nationwide initiative to [...]

NEWARK - A former nurse who claims to have killed more than 40 patients at hospitals in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is expected to plead guilty Thursday in the 1988 [...]

Like something out of a Disney film, the story of Paco the python is a serpentine tale of a pet snake missing in Missouri for more than a month until [...]

BAYONNE - Researchers are making progress in developing 'smart gun' technology, but it will still be at least five years before a New Jersey law requiring it can take effect, [...]

NEWARK - As many as 1,000 geese, ducks and gulls may have perished in the Delaware River after a Greek-owned tanker leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil, the state Department [...]

NEWARK - Two potential rivals in next year's Democratic gubernatorial primary, acting Governor Codey and U.S. Sen. Jon S. Corzine, ladled soup and spooned potatoes for some of their neediest [...]

NEWARK - The state and Atlantic County have agreed to pay $2.46 million for the development rights to a 1,448-acre tract in Atlantic County that includes the state's largest blueberry [...]

JERSEY CITY - Councilman Jerramiah Healy was declared mayor of the state's second-largest city Friday, 10 days after a special election that drew 11 candidates. Healy led the field in [...]

JERSEY CITY - Jerramiah Healy was leading in a special election for mayor of Jersey City on Wednesday, but election officials said about 10 percent of the vote could not [...]

JERSEY CITY - Residents were to choose a new mayor in a special election Tuesday to fill the unexpired term of Glenn D. Cunningham, the city's first black mayor, who [...]

JERSEY CITY - City Councilman Jerramiah Healy declared victory Tuesday night in the race for mayor, but county elections officials left for the evening without announcing an official winner. Healy [...]

JERSEY CITY - From the photo seeming to show one candidate passed out naked on his front stoop, to the convicted felon advising another candidate's campaign, the special election for [...]

NEWARK - Two Montclair High School varsity football players accused of raping a 15-year-old schoolmate surrendered to police Friday, authorities said. The two players, ages 15 and 16, were charged [...]

SOUTH BRUNSWICK - A South Brunswick middle school teacher was reassigned Friday after district officials concluded that she was using her classroom to show support for President Bush in next [...]

NEWARK - Hoboken residents will not have to use a second voting machine to cast ballots on a local ordinance to ban the practice called pay-to-play - the awarding of [...]

Lourdes Dos Santos, who sells sunglasses from a cart in front of the New Jersey Turnpike's Thomas A. Edison Service Area, finished her Diet Pepsi and threw the plastic bottle [...]

KEARNY - Studies have found that contaminants leaking from an uncapped landfill in the Meadowlands are threatening wetlands once labeled 'the best freshwater marsh in New Jersey.' The New Jersey [...]

NEWARK - The head of the city's Housing Authority, under federal review after reports of excessive spending, on Monday defended his agency's office renovations and the award of a contract [...]

NEWARK - Four companies that run multiplex cinemas in New Jersey have agreed to install captioning equipment for deaf or hearing-impaired moviegoers in theaters throughout the state, the state Attorney [...]

NEWARK - State regulators on Monday adopted new rules requiring cable television companies to report customer complaints. The reporting requirement and a rule on how complaints are defined were approved [...]

NEWARK - Straddling the New Jersey Turnpike are one of the nation's busiest passenger airports and one of its busiest shipping ports. With major land, sea, and air hubs running [...]

JERSEY CITY - Raisa De Los Santos paid the farmer and left the booth with several bags of zucchini, cabbage, tomatoes, and peaches, as she shopped at the farmer's market [...]

NEWARK - The state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a civil rights suit charging that two Manalapan police officers detained and searched three black youths they [...]

NEWARK - The Rev. Frederick Boyle lost his New Jersey ministry, half his pay, and 25 pounds, all for his opposition to the war in Iraq. The pacifist Methodist could [...]

HOBOKEN - The Clam Broth House, a local icon second only to Frank Sinatra, which for a century attracted longshoremen, movie stars, and tourists, could be demolished within weeks. The [...]

WANTAGE - A dormant Sussex County farm where scientists did pioneering research on dairy cow breeding in the 1930s faces an uncertain future as state officials discuss whether it should [...]

WEEHAWKEN - Responding to rapid development and increased use of Hudson County's northern waterfront, the area's regional fire and rescue squad has christened its first fireboat. For years, New Jersey [...]

ASBURY PARK - Two days after rocker Joe Grushecky played a tribute concert to Bruce Springsteen, The Boss returned the favor by joining Grushecky onstage for an hour and a [...]

Staring up at the famous patina of the Statue of Liberty, 10-year-old Brent Coats was green with envy. His big sister Megan was allowed to go inside the statue in [...]

NEWARK - A concert promoter and Democratic activist is gathering signatures in an effort to draft Bruce Springsteen for a benefit concert to oppose President Bush's reelection bid. Andrew Rasiej [...]

JERSEY CITY - When an internationally known Russian sculptor offered last year to erect a 100-foot-tall Sept. 11 memorial on the waterfront opposite the World Trade Center site, the mayor [...]

The Army broke ground Monday on a laboratory at Picatinny Arsenal intended to develop a new generation of propellants for firing bullets and shells at enemy targets. Some 45,000 square [...]

NEWARK - In the shadow of this week's glowing headlines that New Jersey accounted for two-thirds of the region's recent job growth there lurked much darker news for the state's [...]

RIDGEFIELD PARK - Soda bottles sold inside the Vince Lombardi rest area ask consumers to 'Please recycle.' But that's difficult at the rest area because, like all the others on [...]

NEWARK - The union representing some of the baggage screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport says there has been a chronic shortage of latex gloves used for baggage searches. The [...]

NEWARK - On Wednesday, a retired New Jersey standardbred will replace Smarty Jones as the most-watched horse in the country. Sergeant York, the name the 13-year-old horse has gone by [...]

NEWARK - The FBI's Newark field office denied mishandling a British Muslim who told agents he had been trained as a hijacker for Osama bin Laden. Niaz Khan, a Briton [...]

There didn't used to be resident Canada geese in New Jersey, fouling parks, ponds, and the soles of golf shoes with their cylindrical green calling cards. In fact, before the [...]

NEWARK - BMW, Volkswagen, Deutsche Bank, and 14 other German companies withheld $100 million from a fund for victims of Nazi-era forced labor, a lawyer for the victims said during [...]

ROSELLE - A New Jersey man confirmed Wednesday that his son is one of six U.S. soldiers charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners in a military prison but insisted that his [...]

JERSEY CITY - One father shot and critically wounded another, then fatally shot himself, authorities said, after the wounded man broke up a confrontation early Saturday evening involving his teenage [...]

NEWARK - Schering-Plough Corp. said it has received a second subpoena in an investigation into its sales and marketing practices. The Kenilworth-based drug maker noted in a quarterly report filed [...]

NJ Transit has decided not to reactivate commuter rail service on a branch of the Montclair-Boonton Line, after canceling the service in September 2002, when a rail link was completed [...]

NEWARK - Kathleen Halo, who shoots in the low 100s as a twice-a-week golfer, bent over the ball, drew back her putter, and sank her putt. Finishing the 12th hole [...]

NEWARK - A civil rights suit filed against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. by Mexican immigrants has been expanded to include plaintiffs from Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic - and to [...]

JERSEY CITY - Highlighting an ongoing power struggle between Jersey City's maverick mayor and Hudson County's traditionally dominant Democratic organization, the mayor filed a lawsuit Tuesday to oust a county [...]