August 19, 2013
Officials in New Jersey have closed five home improvement companies accused of shoddy or nonexistent work and their principal owner has been ordered to pay more than $300,000. Acting Attorney General John Hoffman announced the settlement Thursday against Sulejman Lita …
July 31, 2013
The new mayor of New Jersey’s second largest city wants to merge the police and fire departments as a way to cut costs and streamline services. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop’s ordinance will be introduced during a hearing on Wednesday. …
July 30, 2013
An internal investigation has found the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey paid millions of dollars in excessive insurance premiums for construction projects. Chief investigator Michael Nestor tells The Star-Ledger of Newark the agency is looking at it …
July 26, 2013
Officials believe a gustnado damaged two homes as thunderstorms moved across New Jersey. The low-powered tornado, packing winds of 60 to 80 mph, struck Monday on Vath Street in Jackson Township. National Weather Service meteorologist Valerie Meola tells the Asbury …
July 18, 2013
Picture two residential beach communities on the New Jersey shore: Bay Head and Mantoloking, which side-by-side in Ocean County on a narrow barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and Barnegat Bay. Before Hurricane Sandy landed on Oct. 29, 2012, …
July 17, 2013
Federal officials are investigating why a Jersey shore house damaged by Superstorm Sandy collapsed while being jacked up, injuring three workers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has sent three investigators to Little Egg Harbor Township. OSHA spokeswoman Joanna Hawkins …
July 16, 2013
With all the fears that Superstorm Sandy created, here’s one that never materialized: huge tax increases to make up for property destroyed along the coastlines of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. Waves of federal aid, some strategic borrowing, lowered …
July 12, 2013
The buzz came mostly by word-of-mouth but also from flyers circulated among New Jersey’s homeless Medicaid recipients and drug addicts. It told them where to get pain pills – and fast – prescribed by corrupt doctors who then bilked government …
July 11, 2013
New Jersey residents will begin hearing this week whether they’re getting money to rebuild badly damaged homes or stay in their communities after Superstorm Sandy. State Community Affairs Commissioner Richard Constable tells The Associated Press that 3,500 households will be …
June 28, 2013
New Jersey is stiffening the penalties for motorists who use handheld cellphones to talk or text. A bill signed into law Thursday increases the fine to a minimum of $200 and a maximum of $400 for a first offense. A …