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New Jersey governor signs law aimed at protecting poor from pollution
A landmark environmental justice bill stalled for over a decade became law in New Jersey on Friday.
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High School Seniors Wake Up at 4am So They Can Shovel Neighbor’s Driveway Before Her Dialysis
Rather than sleeping in on a snow day, a group of high school students got together at 4:30AM so they could make sure that an elderly woman could get to her dialysis appointment. Brian and Patrick Lanigan are both students at Parsippany High School in New Jersey. They also live next to an older woman who relies on ambulance transportation to bring her to her dialysis treatments.
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Police Use Fake Amazon Boxes to Catch Thieves
Police in New Jersey teamed up with Amazon to install porch cameras and add GPS trackers to fake boxes so they could easily locate and arrest thieves when a box gets stolen. The first theft happened just three minutes after a fake box delivery was made.
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$1m lottery break for US hip patient
A man who fell and broke his hip while on his way to buy a lottery ticket in New Jersey has scooped the $1m jackpot - after buying a ticket at the hospital he was taken to for treatment. Earl Livingston, 87, from Blackpool, was given the chance to join Jefferson Stratford Hospital's lottery pool. He entered the state's Mega Millions pool with 141 other people.
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New Jersey cracks down on events hosted by microbreweries
When lawmakers passed a law six years ago allowing microbreweries to serve their products in-house and sell more beer to go, they hoped to give New Jersey’s fledgling craft beer industry a boost. But microbreweries in the state have now become too active in the eyes of some, prompting the state to crack down on the number of events they can host each year.
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Woman on oxygen dies hours after electric company shuts off power
A New Jersey woman on oxygen died just seven hours after her electric company shut off the power to her home. The incident happened Thursday in Newark, New Jersey. Electric company Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) cut off the power to 68-year-old Linda Daniels' home around 10 a.m. By 5 p.m., Daniels was dead.
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New Jersey governor refuses to ban child marriage because 'it would conflict with religious customs'
A high profile Republican governor has declined to sign into law, a measure that would have made his state the first to ban child marriage without exception. Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey and someone who has been a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, said such a ban would conflict with religious customs. He did not specify what religions he was referring to.
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Traumatic License: An Oral History of Action Park
From 1978 to 1996, New Jersey hosted a ride-at-your-own-risk water park that earned it the nickname “Class Action Park.” By Jake Rossen.
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Trapping Foxes to Save Plovers Sets Off Showdown at Jersey Shore
Wildlife officials have used snare traps to protect the endangered birds. It’s ruffling more than feathers in a town where the fox is the unofficial mascot.
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Jersey City, Polish officials trade barbs over massacre statue
The statue was unveiled at Exchange Place in 1991. By Terrence T. McDonald.
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New Jersey arrests more people for weed than almost any other state. See the list
New Jersey may be closer than ever to having legal weed, but people in the Garden State are more likely to be arrested for marijuana than almost anywhere else in the country. A recently published analysis of marijuana arrest data shows that in 2016 New Jersey was third in the nation in total marijuana arrests -- after Texas and New York -- and second only to Wyoming in marijuana arrest rate.
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Direct Eye Contact
The most sophisticated, most urban, most reproductively fruitful of bears. By John McPhee.
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Off-duty N.J. State Police trooper saves choking infant
An off-duty State Police trooper saved the life of a choking newborn over the weekend, officials said Monday. Trooper Robert Meyer was asleep at his Piscatwaway home Saturday afternoon when the grandmother of a two-week-old girl rushed to his house in search of help for the baby who was blue and struggling to breathe, police said.
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New Jersey Is Last State to Insist at Gas Stations: Don’t Touch That Pump
As of Jan. 1, the only other holdout, Oregon, allows people in certain counties to fuel up their cars themselves.
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16-year-old allegedly killed parents, sister, family friend minutes before new year
Minutes before midnight on New Year's Eve, a 16-year-old boy allegedly used a semi-automatic rifle owned by a family member to shoot and kill his parents, sister and a family friend inside the parents' home in a coastal city in southern New Jersey, the county prosecutor said.
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79 charged in child predator, pornography operation in New Jersey
Authorities in New Jersey have announced the arrests of several dozen alleged child predators and child pornography offenders. The announcement follows the conclusion of Operation Safety Net, a month’s long investigation targeting alleged sex offenders online and on social media with undercover operations. "The 79 men that we arrested lurked in the shadows of the internet and on social media," NJ Attorney General Christopher Porrino said at a Friday press conference.
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'Secret Santa' Pays For Layaway Orders At New Jersey Toys“R”Us
A Secret Santa in New Jersey is making sure kids’ Christmas wishes get fulfilled this year. Charlie K says he woke up bright and early Friday to shop for his son when he was inspired to give back to the community that has given him so much. So, Charlie headed to the Cherry Hill Toys“R”Us and paid for items people had on layaway. “I’m trying to bring some happiness to people, to the community that brought happiness to me and my family,” said Charlie K. “I love this community and I am trying to provide back to it.”
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Lester Crenshaw is Still Dead: Don’t Die in the Pines
Visit the post for more.
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Warning of marijuana Halloween candy derided as scare tactic
New Jersey is warning parents to look out for people slipping their kids marijuana-laced candy while trick-or-treating. But with no apparent evidence that's ever happened, advocates for legalizing the drug say it's nothing more than a Halloween scare tactic. The state attorney general's office published a document being shared by law enforcement agencies around New Jersey and beyond, including a warning about a "significant presence of marijuana candy and other edible forms in New Jersey and nearby states."
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N.J. Gov. Christie spotted on beach closed by government shutdown
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was spotted soaking up the sun on a beach off-limits to the public during the state's government shutdown.
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