As cities and states wonder whether their starved pension funds will dry up and force them to use budget money to pay the annual cost, retiree health care benefits are already draining state coffers.
Venezuela will give a 300-acre island in the Delaware River to the state of New Jersey, the governor's office announced.
The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday night for four boaters who disappeared after a fishing boat sank off the New Jersey coast on Tuesday.
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like smell that has periodically blanketed New York is not a particularly aromatic pancake house but a New Jersey factory involved in the processing of fenugreek seeds, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday.
Since the beginning of the year the family clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey has seen an influx of young children coming in for flu shots.
At 21 landfills in New Jersey, methane gas produced by decomposing garbage is used as fuel to generate electricity
In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law
For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows
A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor who was known for portraying Santa Claus
"Kristen" and her mom spend a low-key day bonding over massages
As cities and states wonder whether their starved pension funds will dry up and force them to use budget money to pay the annual cost, retiree health care benefits are already draining state coffers.
Venezuela will give a 300-acre island in the Delaware River to the state of New Jersey, the governor's office announced.
The Coast Guard suspended its search Wednesday night for four boaters who disappeared after a fishing boat sank off the New Jersey coast on Tuesday.
The source of a mysterious maple syrup-like smell that has periodically blanketed New York is not a particularly aromatic pancake house but a New Jersey factory involved in the processing of fenugreek seeds, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday.
Since the beginning of the year the family clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey has seen an influx of young children coming in for flu shots.
At 21 landfills in New Jersey, methane gas produced by decomposing garbage is used as fuel to generate electricity
In five years, New Jersey residents seeking driver's licenses will have to decide whether they want to become organ donors under a new first-of-its kind law
For the first time, it appears that more than half of all insured Americans are taking prescription medicines regularly for chronic health problems, a study shows
A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor who was known for portraying Santa Claus
"Kristen" and her mom spend a low-key day bonding over massages
Breaking a sweat over tanking in the NBA -- that is, some lottery-bound teams' bad form of doing less than their best to win late in each regular season -- is so 2007.
As anyone who's been to the gas station or supermarket lately knows, the prices of fuel and food are on the rise.
"I support her 100 percent," says the older brother of Ashley Alexandra Dupré
An alleged plot hatched by a high school student to murder his classmates and teachers in New Jersey was foiled early this week, police told CNN Thursday.
St. Peter's College locked down its campus Wednesday after receiving e-mails saying bombs were planted in campus buildings, authorities said
While California enjoyed a full slate of top competition at the Nike Extravaganza in Santa Ana last weekend, the nation turns its eyes to New Jersey this weekend for the Primetime Shootout.
Dear FSB: What's the best way to pass my construction business on to my son?
New Jersey officially said Monday that it has "profound regret" for practicing slavery, and became the first state north of the Mason-Dixon line to pass such apologetic legislation.
A committee of the New Jersey Assembly on Thursday approved a resolution that would make the state the first north of the Mason-Dixon line to apologize for slavery.
Legislators in New Jersey are debating whether to apologize for slavery.
A day after New Jersey banned executions, newly released figures show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13-year low.
Before we ring in the New Year, there are some things we can do NOW that will help us out come tax time. Here's what you need to know.
The man who raped and killed 7-year-old Megan Kanka -- the 1994 crime that inspired "Megan's Law" -- is one of eight men whose sentences were commuted to life in prison this week as part of New Jersey's new ban on execution.
New Jersey becomes the first state in modern times to abolish capital punishment, as momentum builds nationwide to reconsider seldom-used death-penalty statutes
New Jersey lawmakers have voted to abolish the death penalty in the state, sending the governor a bill he has already said he will sign. The measure will make New Jersey the first state in more than 40 years to outlaw capital punishment.
A fire in a two-story house in Union, New Jersey, Wednesday morning killed four members of a family -- a grandmother, the father, the mother and a 13-year-old daughter, the fire department said.
BIGGEST CLIMB: New Jersey (16 to 6) BIGGEST FALL: N.Y. Rangers (3 to 11)
BIGGEST CLIMB: Nashville (17 to 13), N.J. (20 to 16), Toronto (27 to 23) BIGGEST FALL: Columbus (14 to 18), Calgary (24 to 28)
Lower-income Americans spend eight times more of their disposable income on gasoline than wealthier residents do.
Rodolfo Godinez, one of six suspects charged in a triple slaying in a Newark, New Jersey, schoolyard, pleaded not guilty Wednesday at Essex County Veterans Courthouse, the county prosecutor's office said.
Charlotte's Independence is back in the rankings, just in time for a battle with Butler (Matthews, N.C.). The Patriots, who had their 109-game winning streak snapped when they lost their opener to Elder (Cincinnati) at the Herbstreit Challenge in Ohio, have regrouped to win eight straight.
"As a business owner, I feel good coming to work every day," says Sara Kubersky, 32. She and her sister, Erica, 27, co-own Mooshoes on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Started in 2001, the company sells shoes and accessories that she refers to as "vegan." But their office is also entirely green. Kubersky says this fosters a sense of solidarity and loyalty in her staff. "They actually care," she notes.
There are 98,000 people in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut who wish Glenn Cohen would go away. They are the area's Realtors, and for the past three years the company that Cohen runs, Foxtons, has given them roughly $36 million worth of aggravation. With that sum, he has blanketed the region with advertising for his discount residential real estate brokerage, and he has no plans to stop. Foxtons ads are everywhere--television, radio, newspapers, billboards, buses, subways, hot dog-cart umbrellas, commuter ferries--all accusing Realtors who collect 6% commissions of overcharging for their services. "Overthrow the overpaid," screams one ad. This summer airplanes buzzed New Jersey beaches towing banners that read, beware of Sharks charging 6%.
Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., struggling like other home builders, is offering six-figure discounts on some of its properties this weekend as it attempts to draw interest in a slumping market.
Happy birthday, boomer. If you're among the 4.3 million Americans born in 1957, when the baby boom hit its peak, you're turning the big five-oh this year.
The FBI arrested 11 public officials, including a mayor and two state lawmakers, Thursday in a federal corruption probe that spread across the state
Two mayors and two state legislators are among 11 public officials arrested in New Jersey as part of a corruption investigation, the U.S. attorney's office in Trenton announced Thursday.
With more ill and injured people unable to speak English, hospitals, clinics and rescue squads are turning to picture boards to bridge the communication gap with easily understood images.
A day after searching for the body of a woman missing since August 19, Emerson, New Jersey, police ended their efforts, saying Wednesday they're "reasonably certain" she wasn't in those areas.
Police on Tuesday scoured a wooded area surrounding a large reservoir in New Jersey, trying to find any evidence of a woman who has been missing for more than a week, police said.
Last Sept. 9, as evening burned into night, Will Hill III, the do-everything quarterback and free safety from St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City, N.J., sunk his cleats into the Giants Stadium FieldTurf for the second time in nine months.
New Jersey law enforcement was ordered Wednesday to notify federal immigration officials whenever someone arrested for an indictable offense or drunken driving is determined to be an illegal immigrant.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- Rutgers University reportedly is looking to spend $116 million to add more than 12,000 seats and luxury boxes to the football stadium.
Patricia Pasechnick was sailing to some of the most romantic ports in Europe, but she'd left her husband home in New Jersey. Instead, she was sharing Rome, Tuscany and the French Riviera with her mother-in-law and 13-year-old daughter.
You can do it without knives or needles. It's the list you've been longing for -- the fives ways to slow time and stay fabulous.
New Jersey became the first U.S. state on Friday to mandate sharp greenhouse gas reductions by 2050 in an effort to fight climate change.
We've all seen them. The "No Blood for Oil" bumper stickers on the Grand Cherokees, "Save the Whales" pasted on the back of an old, smoke-belching '77 Volvo.
Smokers have seen even more of their money go up in flames as state cigarette taxes continued to rise over the last year, according to a new survey.
AS THE OWNER AND OPERATOR OF BLUE-SKY Solutions (blue-skysolutions.com), a graphic design and tech-support shop in New Jersey, I spend hours on my cellphone, usually in the car, client offices, restaurants, and anywhere else I can get a signal. Recently, wireless Bluetooth headsets have taken a stylish turn. I tested a few to see if they offered as much function as form.
A New Jersey importer of Chinese-made automobile tires has asked the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for help in recalling about 450,000 of the light truck tires because they lack an important safety feature, lawyers said.
Seton Hall Prep (West Orange, N.J.) won its third consecutive Non-Public A group and North Jersey titles to cap the season as the No. 1 team in the Top 25. No. 17 Norwell (Ossian, Ind.) is the only team in the rankings that hasn't finished its season.
When it was all over, Seton Hall Prep (West Orange, N.J.) coach Mike Sheppard Jr. was left to worry about his star pitcher's arm breaking.
At 4:41 p.m. on Thursday, the waiting finally ended for Rick Porcello.
It's a bit of a paradox, but the way Brayan Martinez of West Orange (N.J.) plays the game is the antithesis of American-style soccer at the highest levels. Be that as it may, he's now the American high school game's brightest star -- today the recipient of Gatorade National Player of the Year honors.
Seton Hall Prep (West Orange, N.J.) remains in the top spot in this week's rankings after capturing its 10th Greater Newark Tournament title.
Gas prices hit record highs for the 12th straight day Thursday, as drivers prepared to hit the road for the Memorial Day holiday and the start of the summer driving season.
The 11th straight day of record high gas prices Wednesday resulted in a new measure of pain for the nation's drivers -- the longest stretch of time with gas above $3 a gallon, according a closely-watched daily survey.
With gasoline prices setting new records every day, the only state in the country where the average price for gas is still under $3 a gallon is New Jersey.
Gasoline prices broke a record Tuesday for the 10th day in a row as every state except for New Jersey now has an average price above the $3 a gallon mark in AAA's daily survey.
A flare dropped from an F-16 jet fighter during a training exercise may have caused a wildfire that has burned 14,000 acres since Tuesday afternoon in southern New Jersey, according to the state's National Guard.
"If we don't rebound we can't win."
The federal government has charged five alleged Islamic radicals with plotting to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
SI.com's Ian Thomsen interviewed four NBA advance scouts -- two from each conference -- to break down the first round of the playoffs. For analysis of the West series, click here.
Had they lived, they might have gone on to change the world as teachers, military officers or engineers -- but the killer who cut so many lives short at Virginia Tech snatched all that away.
As an oncoming nor'easter dumped heavy rains along the mid-Atlantic coast, Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged New Yorkers to use mass transit Monday and take other precautions.
Measure the return of April with three consistencies: leaves are coming back (hooray), the taxman is back (ah, crud) and the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings are back in the playoffs.
If you were one of the smart ones who laid out the $159 for the NHL's Center Ice package, this is the week your investment pays off. With seven teams contending for three playoff spots in the East, and with crucial seeding battles going down to the wire in the West, it's time send the wife and kids to the in-laws, set the TiVo to record your other favorite shows, settle onto the couch and see who wants it the most.
When it comes to how U.S. states are adapting to an evolving economy, not all are created equal, according to a study released Tuesday.
New York officials evacuated a number of buildings and shut down some trains after a mysterious gaslike odor was reported Monday.
Facing pressure from the state's top court, the New Jersey Legislature voted Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the rights and privileges of marriage, while using the term "civil unions" to describe the partnerships.
A mob of angry bargain-hunters chanted, "Open the doors!" as they waited to enter a Wal-Mart in Union, N.J., a few minutes after the 5 a.m. opening deadline passed Friday morning.
In a decision likely to stoke the contentious election-year debate over same-sex marriage, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that state lawmakers must provide the rights and benefits of marriage to gay and lesbian couples.
Four more years in the classroom should be looking pretty good to high school graduates if future salary is important to them, according to new Census data released Thursday.
Considering a remodeling project to boost the value of your home? Before you drop $40,000 or more on a new kitchen or master bath, consider the newcomer on the renovation block: a rooftop solar-power system that not only will lower your overhead costs and insulate you from a volatile energy market but will likely add just as much to your home value over the long haul.
New Jersey and New York homeowners face the highest property taxes in the United States, according to a report released Tuesday by the Tax Foundation.
Advances in the construction of metamaterials will allow us to build composites with properties unlike anything offered by nature, creating the prospect of invisibility technologies. What are the practical and ethical considerations we need to consider in developing such materials?
Who wouldn't want to help the environment while increasing the value of their business and lowering their expenses?
You really love the house, the half acre lot and the great neighborhood. The price is right, your offer has been accepted, financing is in place and you're ready to close...almost.
Wish you could sever the ties to your electric company? With alternate energy it may just be possible.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Do you live in a "donor" state?
Passaic County, New Jersey, led the United States in wage growth during the 12 months ended Sept. 30, 2005, according to a report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The state of New Jersey and its local towns lavish more money on public school systems than anywhere else in the United States. In 2004, $12,981 was spent per pupil there, according to the latest Census Bureau report on public school education funding.
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New Jersey residents have the biggest nest eggs in the nation, while Mississippi residents have the smallest, according to an index compiled by retail stock broker A.G. Edwards.
The National Republican Senate Committee is backing Tom Kean Jr., the son of a former governor, in its quest to capture New Jersey's open U.S. Senate seat next year.
New Jersey has moved closer to passing legislation to discourage the type of gasoline price gouging seen after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
CEOs from the nation's biggest oil companies face a grilling in Congress Wednesday before a joint Senate committee hearing on energy prices and record industry profits.
Lawyers for four New Jersey boys allegedly starved by their adoptive parents have agreed to a $12.5 million dollar settlement from the state of New Jersey, a spokesman for the Division of Youth and Family Services said Friday.
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There's a political scandal waiting to explode.
They want to tax my Who. And my 3 Doors Down. And my Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show.
At 8 o'clock on a Sunday morning, New Jersey's Ocean City boardwalk is humming. Bikes and surreys, their striped awnings fluttering, coax a percussive tune out of the weathered boards.
Q Technology stocks have been a big disappointment. But the shares of those companies are cheap. Isn't the time to buy now? --Kate Zhang, Los Angeles
Pennsylvania is a state rich with history -- and golf is no exception. It's the birthplace of Arnold Palmer (Latrobe, in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains), and home to two of the most storied courses in the world, Oakmont (closer to Pittsburgh) and Merion East (near Philadelphia).
Q. Technology stocks have been a big disappointment. But the shares of those companies are cheap. Isn't the time to buy now?
If President Bush's plan to reform Social Security is enacted, a lot of retired people will get a significant fraction of their retirement income from selling their investment holdings. How would such sales affect the stability of the stock market, particularly during market declines?
Gasoline prices continued to climb Wednesday, extending a trend that has seen record prices every day for almost two weeks.
Gasoline prices kicked off the workweek with another record setting day despite an ease in the cost of crude, which has fallen more than three dollars a barrel since the middle of March.
My son is 23 years old and has about $14,000 to invest. He is open to some risk, but isn't particularly aggressive. What kind of asset allocation would you recommend for him? And would it make a significant difference to his overall growth if he stuck to index funds with low expenses?
It's never easy to forecast the future. Consider the U.S. Department of Labor's rosy proclamation in 1929 that "1930 will be a splendid employment year." Or Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's ...
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