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The article discusses how suspected bomber Ahmad Khan Rahami was shot and arrested in Linden, New Jersey on September 19, 2016 after participating in a gun battle with police officers, and it mentions how authorities believe that Rahami is responsible for the terrorism-related bomb attacks that took place in New Jersey and the Chelsea section of Manhattan, New York. According to the article, Rahami and his family have traveled to Pakistan in the past.

The article discusses investigations into the administration of New Jersey governor Chris Christie and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey regarding possible securities law violations surrounding a repair of the Pulaski Skyway bridge. Topics addressed include the alleged use of Port Authority funds for the project despite the fact that the bridge is owned by the state of New Jersey, as well as attempts to portray the project as improving access to the Lincoln Tunnel.

The article discusses allegations that a closing of road lanes in Fort Lee, New Jersey was ordered by aides of New Jersey governor Chris Christie as political retribution against Fort Lee mayor Mark Sokolich, who did not support Christie's 2013 reelection campaign. Topics addressed include Christie's denial of knowledge of email messages sent by his deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, as well as the alleged involvement of Christie staff members Bill Baroni and David Wildstein.

The article reports on the arrest of Ahmad Khan Rahami after a gun fight with the police in Linden, New Jersey on September 19, 2016. It states that Rahami is responsible for the explosion in Manhattan, New York City and bombing in New Jersey on September 18. Captain James Sarnicki of the Linden Police Department also mentions some details regarding the incident.

The article reports on the shutdown of the busy port system ground in New Jersey and New York since longshoremen walked out from their job, threatening to disrupt the delivery of goods in the region.

This article presents information about the arrest of a fourth man allegedly involved in a bank robbery and the shooting death of an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Francisco J. Herrera-Genao was arrested after spending a night hiding in the woods in Readington Township, New Jersey. Herrera-Genao had been one of a gang of bank robbers that the F.B.I. had been following. When the robbers stopped at a bank, the agents approached and Agent Barry Lee Bush was shot in the confrontation.

The article reports on a terrorist plan to bomb train tunnels that run under the Hudson River and connect Manhattan to New Jersey. Three suspected suicide bombers are being held overseas after an investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York City police. Assem Hammoud was arrested and identified as the main suspect after the investigators monitored Internet chat rooms frequented by Islamic extremists.

The articles focuses on builder Bernard B. Kerik, owner of Woods Restoration Services. It explores allegations of New Jersey officials that he tried to help a mob-connected company, Interstate Industrial Corp., while it paid for renovations to his apartment. Claim of Kyle B. Watters, a lawyer for the builder who did the work, that Kerick should have known the labor and materials he received were worth tens of thousand of dollars more than he paid. A lawyer for Kerik has asserted that his client was unaware that anyone else paid for the work.

The article reports that Bernard B. Kerik abused his position as New York City correction commissioner in the late 1990's by accepting tens of thousands of dollars from a construction company that he was helping to pursue business with the city. According to New Jersey officials, the company has long had ties to organized crime. The article reviews how the State Division of Gaming Enforcement is seeking to the keep the construction company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, from doing work on Atlantic City casinos.

The article reports on the 18 new subpoenas issued by New Jersey legislative committee on February 10, 2014 as part of their investigation on the lane closings issue at the George Washington Bridge in January 2014.

An inquiry into possible cheating on the sergeants' exam at the Port Authority Police Department is leading investigators to scrutinize why several supervising officers failed to take appropriate disciplinary action or address concerns that the test's questions may have been leaked. The inquiry has prompted the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to begin proceedings to fire a police captain after determining that he used his cellphone to take pictures of questions on the exam last June, shortly before it was administered, authority officials have said. Now, the authority's office of the inspector general is investigating why the captain's superiors initially did little to address the matter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The director of the Passaic County Sheriff's Department motor pool, which has been the focus of a criminal investigation into whether mechanics there repaired vehicles for a former sheriff's political donors, was charged Tuesday with stealing $100,000 in drug money and a sport-utility vehicle engine, the authorities in New Jersey said. Charges of official misconduct against the head of the motor pool, Paolo Mariano, 52, were contained in a criminal complaint filed in Paterson Municipal Court by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

City officials late Friday suspended the license of the master rigger who was overseeing the dismantling of a tower crane on West 42nd Street on Thursday when a man working to lower it plunged 40 stories to his death. An investigation found that the master rigger, Gene J. Altobelli, 56, failed to supervise the operation and that unsafe conditions existed at the site, where two residential towers overlooking the Hudson River are being built, city officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports that in June 2000, two months before Bernard B. Kerik was appointed police commissioner, New York City's top investigative agency learned that he had a social relationship with the owner of a New Jersey construction company suspected of having business ties to organized crime. Kerik's relationship with Frank DiTommaso, owner of Interstate Industrial Corporation; How DiTommaso's disclosures, although they did not indicate Kerik did anything illegal, prompted city investigators to formally interview Kerik; Suggestion that the White House was unaware of the findings before it nominated Kerik to head the Department of Homeland Security, a nomination that has been withdrawn; Comments of former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

Reports that New York City police have found the decomposing body of a missing New Jersey man in a wooded area on Staten Island. Robert Hopkins of Paramus, New Jersey; Absence of any signs of foul play.

Presents news briefs on social and political issues in New York City and New Jersey as of December 2002.

Presents news briefs on metropolitan areas in the United States (U.S.) as of August 2, 2001, including the program approved by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to prevent problem gamblers from gambling legally in New Jersey casinos.

Focuses on the conviction of Allied International Manufacturing Stationery Co. Ltd., a Chinese company based in New Jersey, which pleaded guilty over charges of forced prison labor.

Reports on the arrest of three members of the DeCavalcante crime family, speculating on the possible impact on the family's grip on businesses and labor unions in New York and New Jersey. Origin of the family, which was founded by Sam 'the Plumber' DeCavalcante in New Jersey; Ties between the DeCavalcante and New York's Gambino family among the other five mob clans; Belief that the DeCavalcante's were the inspiration for the television program 'The Sopranos.'

Presents news briefs from metropolitan areas in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey as of June 30, 2000. End of the hunger strike by janitors at Brooklyn Renaissance Plaza in New York City, New York; Appointment of Karen L. Suter as New Jersey's commissioner of banking and insurance; Dismissal of a prison guard at the Cheshire Correctional Institution in Hartford, Connecticut for beating an inmate.

Presents news briefs from metropolitan areas in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as of June 22, 2000. Plans to introduce a resolution seeking health benefits for domestic partners of Suffolk County, New York workers; Reason for the drop or delay of state automobile inspections in New Jersey; Jail sentence given to three people convicted of being part of Russell Peeler Junior's drug ring in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The article discusses lawyer Randy M. Mastro's internal investigation of a political corruption scandal involving lane closures on the George Washington Bridge in New Jersey. Topics addressed include former New York and New Jersey Port Authority official David Wildstein's allegation that New Jersey governor Chris Christie was aware of the closures while they were happening, as well as the report's findings on the involvement of Bridget Anne Kelly, Christie's former deputy chief of staff.

The article discusses former New Jersey Port Authority official David Wildstein's allegations that New Jersey governor Chris Christie had knowledge of politically motivated lane closings at the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey as the closings were occurring. Topics addressed include Christie's assertions that he believed the lane closures were part of a traffic study, as well as Christie's personal relationship to Wildstein.

For Christopher J. Christie, it was inescapably an uncomfortable family connection. Tino Fiumara, the brother of his aunt's husband, was a fearsome and ranking member of the Genovese crime family: twice convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 years in federal prison, and linked by investigators to several grisly murders, including one in which a victim was strangled with piano wire. Mr. Christie, 47, who rose from a boyhood in Livingston to become a corporate lawyer, then United States attorney in New Jersey and now the Republican candidate for governor of New Jersey, does not appear to have talked much about Mr. Fiumara over the years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A contrite Christopher J. Christie, the Republican former prosecutor running for governor on a platform of corruption busting and ethical reform, apologized Tuesday for failing to report a $46,000 loan to a top aide on his tax returns and financial-disclosure forms. ''When I make mistakes, I'm going to admit them,'' he said, adding that he had already amended some of those filings and would finish the rest by Friday. ''It was certainly nothing that I was trying to conceal or hide.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports on the investigation of the bombings carried out by naturalized U.S. citizen Ahmad Khan Rahami in New York and New Jersey in September 2016. Topics covered include his personal background,the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) dismissal of him as threat after his father tipped about his involvement with terrorism in 2014, the planning of the bombings, his endorsement of jihad, and the federal charges filed against him.

The article reports that Hoboken, New Jersey Mayor Dawn Zimmer met with U.S. federal prosecutors on January 19, 2014 regarding allegations that New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno threatened to withhold federal funds designed to help Hoboken recover from Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. According to Zimmer, Guadagno indicated that in order to receive federal aid the mayor would have to support a real estate project proposed by Governor Chris Christie.

The article discusses allegations that a 2013 closure of traffic lanes on a road in Fort Lee, New Jersey leading to the George Washington Bridge was due to political retribution against Fort Lee mayor Mark Sokolich by the administration of New Jersey governor Chris Christie. Topics addressed include the role of Christie staff members David Wildstein, Bridget Anne Kelly, and Bill Baroni in the scandal, as well as Sokolich's refusal to support Christie's 2013 reelection campaign.

The article discusses New Jersey governor Chris Christie's response to a scandal in which his aides ordered lane closures on a road in Fort Lee, New Jersey as political retribution for Fort Lee mayor Mark Sokolich's refusal to support Christie's 2013 reelection campaign. Topics addressed include Christie's apology at a news conference, his decision to fire his deputy chief of staff Bridget Anne Kelly, and the involvement of Christie staff members Bill Baroni and David Wildstein in the scandal.

The article reports that prisoner Edwin B. Spears, a "five-star general" of the Nine Trey Gangsters faction of the Bloods street gang, worked with Joseph M. Perna and Michael A. Cetta, two Luchese crime family members, to smuggle drugs and prepaid cellphones into the East Jersey State Prison in Rahway, New Jersey. A senior prison guard, Michael T. Bruinton, was paid $500 each time he allowed smuggled goods to pass through. New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram comments on the case.

It sounded as if a disaster were unfolding in the Atlantic Ocean off New Jersey, with injured pleasure-boat passengers piling into life rafts after an explosion. An emergency radio transmission said that a yacht had blown up and sunk, that 21 people aboard had made it into life rafts and that 7 were hurt. That distress call, at 4:20 p.m. on Monday, set off an extensive search. Six rescue vessels headed to the location the call had mentioned, some 17 miles off Sandy Hook, N.J. Three helicopters from the New York Police Department were sent to join the search as emergency workers from numerous New Jersey fire departments converged on Sandy Hook, ready to treat the injured passengers or rush them to the closest hospital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Roughly 30 people were injured on Sunday as their PATH train in Hoboken, N.J., hit a rubberized barrier at the end of the line, said a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the line. A passenger aboard the train said that the first car crumpled part of the platform and hit three turnstiles before stopping. The train pulled into the station at normal cruising speed, almost as if the brakes were not being applied, said the passenger, Mahoud Metwali, a 26-year-old resident of Jersey City who had been returning from his job operating a food cart in Midtown Manhattan. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two New Jersey men who were arrested as they prepared to begin what prosecutors said was a carefully thought-out journey to an Islamic insurgent group in Somalia made their first public appearance on Monday since being taken into custody. The men, Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, were shackled at the wrists, waist and ankles as they went before Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in federal court in Newark. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]