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For weeks now, the students of Russ Patane's sixth-grade science class at Lodi's Thomas Jefferson Middle School had been preparing for their visit today to the Buehler Challenger and Science [...]

Vincent James Landano, who fought a successful 22-year battle to clear himself in the 1976 murder of a Newark policeman, died on Monday at a hospital in Toms River, N.J. [...]

A German container ship was allowed to dock in Port Newark today after more than two days of inspections determined that the radioactive readings that it registered were emanating from [...]

For a second day, investigators and technicians just outside New York Harbor pored over a ship and its cargo today, concerned about low-level radiation readings detected the day before the [...]

Department of Energy technicians and F.B.I. agents continued today to pore over a German container ship that raised security concerns when its cargo showed traces of radioactivity after it steamed [...]

A Jordanian native who lives in Clifton, N.J., was arrested yesterday on federal charges that he falsely obtained Virginia identification documents -- ID's that list him as living at the [...]

When bioterrorism concerns and the perennial Halloween hoaxing season coincide, the results can be disconcerting. That was the case last Wednesday, when a man described by a sales clerk as [...]

STATE Senator Bernard F. Kenny Jr., the former Hudson County Democratic Party chairman, Senate majority leader and chairman of the powerful Budget and Appropriations Committee, has had his name appear [...]

Only weeks after New Jersey adopted a ban on holding more than one elective office at a time, effective next year, a research organization said on Thursday that there was […]

Despite warnings from suburbanites who vowed not to venture into this scarred city at night, Sharpe James enlisted the help of a succession of four governors and oversaw the construction [...]

UNITED States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg had had a busy day by the time he returned calls Wednesday. He had just met privately with the Bush administration's nominee to head [...]

In the city he led as mayor for 20 years, it was called a coincidence, a conspiracy, a shame or simply about time that Sharpe James was indicted Thursday, the […]

A black driver who was stopped, detained and extensively searched by state police on the New Jersey Turnpike last year and was given a warning for a faulty tail light […]

EVEN before Gov. Jon S. Corzine called Republican opponents demagogues late last month for their attacks on his proposal to somehow repackage state assets like toll roads or the lottery [...]

At the request of most members of the New Jersey Congressional delegation, the Government Accountability Office says it will look into whether faulty cost and savings estimates played a role […]

MUCH has been made of Christopher J. Christie's broad condemnation of 'the typical rotten politics of Trenton.' The comments by Mr. Christie, the United States attorney for New Jersey, on […]

For the better part of a year, Gov. Jon S. Corzine has promised to produce a plan to solve some of New Jersey's fiscal difficulties by raising billions of dollars […]

It was like the Legislature's version of speed-dating. About 30 minutes into the Assembly debate on a measure that would make New Jersey the second state to set ambitious goals […]

In another setback for the death penalty in New Jersey, the State Supreme Court established ground rules yesterday for how a defendant, after being convicted of a capital crime, could […]

CHANGE is difficult. In politics, perhaps the most recent example is New Jersey's almost tortuous march to so-called ''clean elections'' by trying to provide public funds for state legislative races [...]

If last year's budget process in New Jersey ended with a bang -- as in a costly seven-day shutdown of the state government -- then this year's is ending with […]

As part of the effort to bring greater transparency to the state's budget process and reduce the potential for corruption, the Legislature on Wednesday released for the first time a [...]

Gov. Jon S. Corzine and the Democratic leaders of the Assembly and Senate said Tuesday afternoon that they had reached ''broad agreement on the framework'' for a new state budget [...]

A standoff over a 1-cent property tax increase led to a government shutdown last year. But on Monday, the Assembly voted 79 to 1 to allow voters to decide whether […]

GOOD luck in any search for a grand unifying theme in the results of primaries last Tuesday in northern New Jersey. The lessons were as varied as the races. In [...]

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated the murder conviction and death sentence of a Pennsylvania man imprisoned since 1994. The court ruled that the trial judge and two [...]

When Gov. Jon S. Corzine officially nominated Attorney General Stuart Rabner on Monday as the next chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, he said he expected Mr. Rabner, [...]

The New Jersey health commissioner erred in 2005 when he allowed nine hospitals without cardiac surgery units to perform elective angioplasty, the State Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The commissioner of […]