Thu Dec 22, 2011 1:11 PM EST
A former church janitor was convicted Thursday of murdering a New Jersey priest who was stabbed more than 30 times while brewing a cup of coffee in his kitchen, wearing his clerical robes.
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Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:51 PM EST
Not quite the "War Of The Worlds" broadcast of a Martian invasion in New Jersey, a Verizon "emergency" alert Monday that the company texted to its wireless customers still jangled some nerves and triggered hundreds of calls from concerned residents to local and state offices.
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Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:30 PM EDT
New Jersey will host its first-ever Formula One Grand Prix race in 2013 on a course that winds along the Hudson River waterfront and offers striking views of the Manhattan skyline.
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Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:28 PM EDT
The former president and CEO of a New Jersey-based company surrendered Thursday to face charges of overcharging the U.S. government for overseas reconstruction projects, including in Afghanistan.
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Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:14 PM EDT
Federal prosecutors say the former president and CEO of a New Jersey-based company has surrendered to face charges of overcharging the government for overseas reconstruction projects, including Afghanistan.
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Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:55 PM EDT
The former president and CEO of a New Jersey-based company surrendered Thursday to face charges of overcharging the United States government for overseas reconstruction projects, including in Afghanistan.
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Wed Sep 7, 2011 12:36 PM EDT
Former junior welterweight champion Arturo Gatti was murdered two years ago in Brazil, a panel of forensic evidence experts said Wednesday as it presented the results of a 10-month investigation initiated to challenge the official version that Gatti committed suicide.
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Fri Sep 2, 2011 4:07 PM EDT
Newark Liberty International Airport became the first New York-area airport to install body scanning technology that will replace a system that was harshly criticized for invading travelers' privacy by displaying naked images.
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Tue Aug 30, 2011 1:22 PM EDT
A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering five teenagers in 1978 in what was one of the state's longest-running cold cases.
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Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:14 PM EDT
New York commuters complained they are getting stuck with the bill for the new World Trade Center and post-9/11 security projects as authorities moved Tuesday to double the cost of entering the city from $8 to $17 per car.
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Wed Jun 22, 2011 2:56 PM EDT
A federal appeals court hearing arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of last year's U.S. health reform law focused primarily on whether plaintiffs need to demonstrate they are suffering economic harm now or will when the part of the law mandating that everyone have health coverage takes effect.
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Sat Jun 4, 2011 12:46 PM EDT
This time the river crossing was a lot slower, and a lot drier.
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Thu Jun 2, 2011 5:45 PM EDT
Accusations of greedy motives and arguments over visitation rights made it easy to forget that the court hearing Thursday centered not on the child of warring parents but on a four-legged animal, albeit one with his own Facebook page and thousands of fans worldwide.
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Sun May 15, 2011 12:13 PM EDT
They ranged in age from 24 to 70 and are linked solely by the way their lives ended, in gunfire on Newark's streets.
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:29 PM EDT
A longtime New Jersey mayor and an aide have been sentenced to prison on corruption charges for the second time this week.
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Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:28 PM EDT
To stand inside the cabin of the US Airways jet that crash landed on the Hudson River is to imagine, even briefly, some of the terror that must have overtaken the 155 people aboard as the plane descended onto the icy water.
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Sat Mar 19, 2011 12:02 PM EDT
There's a new kid on the block in this year's NCAA Tournament, a scrappy underdog looking to compete with the big boys and grab a piece of March Madness for its own.
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Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:17 PM EST
An Arkansas man accused of stealing more than 100,000 e-mail addresses of Apple iPad users last year was released on bail Monday and will be prohibited from using the Internet except for work — which in his case means a job as a computer consultant.
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Tue Dec 21, 2010 3:01 PM EST
Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill Tuesday that caps increases to police and firefighter pay awarded through arbitration, a measure he called the most important of the proposals in his so-called toolkit to help towns control costs.
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Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:23 PM EST
Six lenders who have combined to file nearly 30,000 foreclosure actions in New Jersey this year face the possible suspension of their operations next month under a court order announced Monday by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner.
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Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:01 AM EST
For air passengers already fed up with being hauled off to the side of the security line for a pat-down or facing aggressive questions about bulky clothing or odd items in their luggage, advocates for the disabled have this to say: Welcome to our lives.
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Fri Nov 12, 2010 11:20 PM EST
A judge on Friday delayed the scheduled layoffs of more than 150 police officers in New Jersey's largest city for 10 days in a ruling he said was a difficult balancing act between public safety and fiscal responsibility.
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Thu Oct 21, 2010 4:25 PM EDT
New Jersey's governor wants to kill a $9 billion-plus train tunnel to New York City because of runaway costs. Six thousand miles away, Hawaii's outgoing governor is having second thoughts about a proposed $5.5 billion rail line in Honolulu.
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Fri Sep 17, 2010 6:07 PM EDT
With a massive earth mover idled atop a pile of dirt as a backdrop, Democratic leaders assailed Gov. Chris Christie Friday for halting work on an $8.7 billion rail tunnel into New York and accused him of playing politics with a project whose costs he has been aware of for months.
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Fri Aug 13, 2010 1:46 PM EDT
Already facing decreasing revenue along with Atlantic City's other gambling halls, Donald Trump's three casinos there lost an appeal Friday to recover nearly $3 million from the state in overpaid utility taxes.
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