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Federal funding for an armed forces training facility in Camden has been approved by a congressional committee, officials said yesterday.

Sirdeaner Walker was cooking dinner on April 6 when she went upstairs to check on her 11-year-old son, Carl Walker-Hoover, who'd gotten into a fight that day at school and seemed upset.

Federal stimulus money has been pouring into New Jersey health care clinics in response to increased demand for care.

After 401 investors lost billions in last year's downturn, the Department of Labor, which regulates retirement plans, is looking into ways to give 401 recipients more access to investment advice.

A House committee yanked a pension bill provision safeguarding existing investment advice arrangements for DC plans - jeopardizing employer support for a package that also provides critical funding relief for DB plans.

A newly established four-year medical school in downtown Camden, jointly run by Rowan University and Cooper University Hospital, will expand both the South Jersey medical community and Camden's educational hub, officials said yesterday.

Yesterday's decision by the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy board of directors to resist external pressure to change the TFD's management and curb its regional efforts to promote democracy and respect for human rights merits affirmation and encourages hope that the foundation will be able to continue to effectively and independently promote ...

House Democrats want to dramatically reduce the costs of health care by establishing competition in the market place between private and public insurers while expanding coverage across the United States.

Herndon resident W. Scott Loper claims to have been falsely imprisoned and tortured.

Democratic leaders, worried that high price tags might derail their health care plans, are looking at a raft of ideas both old and new to salvage their legislation.

TAIPEI a ' The board of the Taiwan Democracy Foundation reelected its top officials Tuesday amid concerns that the government of President Ma Ying-jeou was trying to influence personnel changes.

GOING TO THE TOP: A White House official said the US president would give every consideration to a letter appealing for support for the pro-democracy organization By William Lowther STAFF REPORTER , WASHINGTON Monday, Jun 22, 2009, Page 3 A congressman has asked US President Barack Obama to become directly involved in the growing controversy over ...

A House subcommittee voted today to move forward to with two 401 bills. The 401 Fair Disclosure for Retirement Security Act would require fee disclosure for all 401 investment options.

A U.S. House subcommittee voted Wednesday along party lines to require greater disclosure of fees that are charged to retirement plan participants.

Burlington County qualifies to receive just short of $40 million worth of financing help from the federal government, a New Jersey congressman announced Friday.

Swine flu was designated Thursday as the first global pandemic in 41 years, as the number of cases in Ocean County rose to seven, officials for the county health department confirmed.

Single payer health care supporters held a hearing yesterday at the Committee of Education and Labor to testify on the need for health care reform.

A senior Democrat on the U.S. House of Representatives' Ways and Means Committee introduced legislation that would require managers of 401 retirement plans to provide plan participants with detailed fee and investment disclosures.

The Pentagon could achieve better contracting outcomes if Congress removed burdensome layers of bureaucracy, former top Defense Department officials told a House panel on Wednesday.

Rep. John McHugh, R-Pierrepont Manor, smiles as President Barack Obama hands a ceremonial pen to Rep.