New Jersey News

The Garden State has grown racially and ethnically in the last decade, and according to the results of a Monmouth University/NJ Press Media Poll, New Jerseyans are showing an increased level of comfort with that diversity.

At the New Jersey church where her singing career first took flight, fans and admirers gathered on Sunday to celebrate the life of Whitney Houston and mourn her passing a day after the pop music diva died in a Beverly Hills hotel.

New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney said Friday that the state legislature would pass a bill to legalize same sex marriage despite a veto threat from Republican Gov.

Governor Christie 's new state budget will likely feature a down payment on his signature income tax cut - but he also needs to pay for other promises, including more money for transportation, public employee pensions and last year's business tax cut.

Shade Tree Garage was recently awarded "green" re-certification by the New Jersey Green Automotive Repair Program .

With the Obama administration waiving New Jersey from No Child Left Behind, the state was in effect given the green light for its own plan for how public schools will be monitored, assisted, and in the case of those that don't improve, overhauled and potentially shut down.

The South Jersey Traffic Safety Alliance presented 'Belts on Bones' recently at Downe Township School to help children learn about the lifesaving importance of properly buckling up and using a booster seat when riding in a vehicle.

A New Jersey man who was high on heroin when he violently shook and dropped his 7-week-old daughter... ATLANTIC CITY - Coast Guard crews have rescued two men who were hospitalized after being hurt in unrelated incidents aboard fishing vessels off the southern New Jersey coast.

Amanda Ross, 16, a Gloucester County Institute of Technology student and Galloway Township resident, was crowned Miss New Jersey's Outstanding Teen, Jan.

Work by Miriam Untoria is titled aA AoeHands of TimeaA A and is part of the aA AoeCelebrationsaA A exhibit at the Monroe Arts Center Tonight Hoboken cooperative gallery, hob'art, opens its doors to the public, unveiling its new, permanent home inside the Monroe Arts Center.

The restaurants featured in the trailer are Flirt Sushi Lounge in Allendale , Bibi'z in Westwood and Masina Trattoria Italiana in Weehawken.

Jeffrey S. Chiesa, Attorney General, attorney for respondent . Appellant Larissa A. Gethard contests a final agency decision of the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission suspending her driver's license for ninety days because she had been convicted in the State of New York for operating a vehicle while her driving ability was impaired.

Here are some old New Jersey maps, available online. Take a look at this map of southern New Jersey made by Dutch settlers in 1669 .

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A Thursday was a very special day at Demarest Elementary School in Bloomfield, when Miss New Jersey USA herself, Michelle Leonardo, came to visit.

By Colleen O'Dea, NJ Spotlight Often, the decision to place a loved one in a nursing home is difficult and fraught with emotional and financial considerations.

As previously outlined , legislation that would allow New Jersey to join a small list of states as well as the District of Columbia in allowing gay marriage is slowly rebuilding.

On Sunday, NJEA executive director Vincent Giordano told NJTV that 'life's not always fair' when discussing how poor families can't afford to pay to send their children to better schools.

MORRISTOWN - The so-called "office creeper" - a Georgia man suspected of taking cash and computers from businesses in five states - has been nabbed in New Jersey, authorities said today.

TRENTON - The Obama administration has freed New Jersey and nine other states from the requirements of a sweeping federal education law that was widely criticized for labeling some of the state's top school districts as "failing." To win the reprieve, the state submitted a detailed blueprint on how it would boost student achievement without the ... (more)