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Last week, Governor Chris Christie signed into law a $32.5 billion state budget for New Jersey - but not before using his line-item veto to cut back significantly on scheduled pension payments and strike down a pair of temporary tax increases.

Polar vortex in NJ soon? Nope, expert says Is the polar vortex, which often brought frigid air to New Jersey this winter, planning a mid-July invasion? Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1m0QynJ But the summer jet stream will be a little wavier than usual, dipping a little farther south than normal in the Midwest area, he said.

Chris Christie pulled New Jersey out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in 2011.

United Way of Northern New Jersey announced it moved into a new home in Warren County on July 1. United Way's office is now located in Hackettstown at 699 Washington St. Area residents are invited to attend an open house to celebrate the move on Tuesday, July 29, from 4-5:30 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

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Danielle Heil of Pennsville represented Salem Community College at the 20th annual Phi Theta Kappa Day celebration in Trenton.

On Saturday, April 5, 2014, members of the New Jersey State Police Fugitive Unit arrested James Wade Barclay, ending the hunt for one of New Jersey's top 12 fugitives that spanned for more than two decades.

New Jersey asked a federal appeals court Thursday to block a seismic research plan involving blasting the ocean floor with loud sound waves.

New Jersey Acting Attorney General John Hoffman today announced new guidelines requiring prosecutors to keep forensic evidence from rape cases for a minimum of five years.

Top New Jersey officials may be moving toward letting voters decide whether to expand casino gambling beyond Atlantic City a few years earlier than expected.

JUNE 20: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's 'Road to Majority' Policy Conference at the Omni Shoreham hotel June 20, 2014 in Washington, DC.

The deficit in pension liabilities for public employees is the "big elephant in the room" for New Jersey's state budget, according to Montclair Republican Club President John Van Wagner.

Egg Harbor Township Police Department is advising motorists of increased penalties to the state law prohibiting the use of cell phones while driving.

In a career spanning 50 years, Patricia Dell has done a little bit of almost everything, playing everywhere from carnivals to opera halls, to main stages across the US.

It's the game that's sweeping the ten o' clock hour! Play Trevia tonight with Steve Trevelise and win tickets to Catch A Rising Star comedy club in the Princeton Hyatt Regency or a Dennis Malloy DVD from when we toured New Jersey together performing standup.

A proposal to award a multinational manufacturing company $260 million in tax breaks - one of the largest such subsidies in recent years - could produce more than 400 jobs in Camden, individuals familiar with the deal said Wednesday.

In honor of New Jersey's 350th Anniversary, Westfield will be a stop on the New Jersey 350 Pop-Up Store tour.

The former public works inspector for a northern New Jersey town who admitted stealing $460,000 in quarters over two years has been spared a prison term.

New Jersey's top Democrats are pressing the Port Authority to scrap a little-known program that gives the governors on both sides of the Hudson River partial control over $950 million for pet projects in each state over the next decade.

North Jersey still has the "lion's share" of bears , but animal experts claim bear sightings are bound to become more common for residents in the central and southern portions of the state.