New Jersey News

Jean Pudder, 75, a resident of Dailey, passed from this life late Sunday, March 9, 2014, in United Hospital Center in Clarksburg.

New Brunswick, N.J., March 11, 2014 - Marking a decade of supporting research at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the Century for the Cure charity bike ride is gearing up for another successful year.

The office of Rep. Frank Pallone on Tuesday announced $27 million in reimbursement to the state Department of Environmental Protection for post-Superstorm Sandy waterway cleanup.

Tesla Motors Inc said New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's administration was pushing forward with a regulation that would hamper sales in the state by forcing the electric-car company to use dealers instead of selling directly to customers.

Tesla has run into more than a few roadblocks with its direct-sales business model, having previously fought battles with the Texas Automobile Dealers Association .

Kathy Clark of the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife and Sarah Tegtmeier of Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc. carry an adult bald eagle to be released in Winslow Township, Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

New Jersey may not be a sprawling land mass, but it probably has more municipalities than your favorite Midwestern state .

Drug users in suburban New Jersey aren't necessarily heading to Paterson, Newark, Camden or Atlantic City for drugs, but are getting high courtesy of a new breed of suburban dealer .

It's called the Garden State and in earlier days was known for the many vegetable farms in its rural central and southern counties.

Earlier this week, a New Jersey appellate court heard oral argument in BIS LP, Inc. v.

Even a 'pro-gun' Democrat might very well prefer that she be raped.and/or murdered to her being adequately armed to prevent it Even a 'pro-gun' Democrat might very well prefer that she be raped.and/or murdered to her being adequately armed to prevent it Last April, New Jersey State Senate President Stephen Sweeney , representing one of the state's ... (more)

Cherry is back with her first proper solo album in 16 years after coming in from the cold with "The Cherry Thing," a 2012 collaboration with Swedish free jazz band the Thing .

Federal prosecutors have opened an inquiry into Port Authority chief David Samson, a close ally of Gov. Chris Christie.

And the New Jersey Osprey Project and the Friends of Island Beach wants to make sure they come home to clean nests.

A Deptford convenience store sold one of the seven third-place winning tickets in the March 7 New Jersey Mega Millions lottery drawing.

Authorities say five people were injured when an alleged drunken driver traveling on the wrong side of a northern New Jersey roadway crashed into another vehicle.

New Jersey residents oppose increasing the gas tax, something Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto has said he's open to, according to a new Rutgers-Eagleton Poll.

VHS Music Director Erik Lynch, Seamus Elliot, Eric Foy, Chris Buneo, Skyler Fortgang, Dustin Nguyen, Michael Lipsey , Ryan Lavoie, Al Cerulo .

New Jersey is still the butt of jokes for the late night comics, but the people who live here think the Garden State is a good place to call home according to a new Monmouth University-Asbury Park Press Quality of Life Index survey .

Walt Hohman, shovels the front of his business, Wards Pastry, along Asbury Avenue, in Ocean City, NJ, during a snowstorm Monday, March 3, 3014.