It has been over three decades since a Republican carried New Jersey in a presidential election. One has to go back to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, who carried the state in the 1988 election on his way to winning the White House. Since then, Democrats have won the state eight straight times in presidential elections. However, former President Donald …
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New Jersey lawmakers pushed ahead Thursday with legislation overhauling the state’s public records access law, reigniting debate over the revisions that stalled earlier this year amid vocal opposition from civil rights and other groups. The Democrat-led state Senate’s budget committee approved the amended legislation Thursday, with its Assembly counterpart set to take up the bill on Friday. The bill’s revival …
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An eight-year New Jersey State Police (NJSP) veteran died during training for an elite team at headquarters over the weekend. The loss of Trooper II Marcellus E. Bethea was announced Sunday night, but details surrounding exactly what happened at NJSP headquarters in Ewing at the time of his death have not been released. He was found in the division’s swimming …
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John Smith, convicted of murdering his first wife and suspected in the disappearance of his second, had charges against him dropped in exchange for details about her death a former FBI agent investigating the case says are likely untrue. Smith, 73, was sentenced in 2001 to life in prison in Ohio for killing his first wife, Janice Elaine Hartman, days …
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After a show of patriotism on the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus earlier this week when students prevented an American flag from hitting the ground and sang the National Anthem, students at Rutgers University followed suit. Rutgers students on Thursday waved American flags and chanted “USA!” amid anti-Israel protests on Voorhees Mall at the New Brunswick, New Jersey, university. …
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Anti-Israel protesters on campus at Rutgers University were countered by a large group of patriotic students waving an American flag and chanting “USA!” on Thursday. Video from Thursday afternoon showed a large gathering between the two chanting groups on Voorhees Mall at the New Brunswick, New Jersey, university. As the anti-Israel group yelled “Free, Free Palestine!” and “From the river …
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Three anti-wind power groups are suing New Jersey to overturn a key environmental approval for a wind energy farm planned off the coast of Long Beach Island. Save Long Beach Island, Defend Brigantine Beach and Protect Our Coast NJ filed suit in appellate court on April 26 challenging a determination by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection that the …
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Atlantic City’s main casino workers union and the New Jersey attorney general on Monday asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a different union that seeks to ban smoking at the city’s nine casinos. Local 54 of the Unite Here union said in a filing in state Superior Court that a third of the 10,000 workers it represents …
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A small 2.9 magnitude earthquake rattled New Jersey on Saturday morning, just three weeks after a more forceful 4.8 quake hit the Garden State and surrounding regions. The natural phenomenon hit near Tewksbury this morning at around 9:49 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Tewksbury is located in Hunterdon County, which is about 35 miles west of New York …
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A long-running sandstorm at the Jersey Shore could soon come to an end as New Jersey will carry out an emergency beach replenishment project at one of the state’s most badly eroded beaches. North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the …
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