All the headlines from our New Jersey Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 22 2025 // New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has filed a lawsuit against Discord, Inc. alleging that the messaging app provider is exposing kids to violent and sexual content and predators and has violated the...
Apr 22 2025 // Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage, Inc. (S&S) has acquired AiK2 Insurance Services, a New Jersey-based firm specializing in business insurance for wealth and asset managers.As part of the acquisition, AiK2...
Apr 14 2025 // A fire that raced through a southern New Jersey neighborhood, killing two young sisters and burning six homes, apparently started in a duplex where the girls’ family lived, authorities said Friday.The cause of the...
Apr 8 2025 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law setting tougher penalties for retail theft and calling for a dedicated effort to combat organized retail theft.The new law establishes and upgrades certain crimes...
Mar 14 2025 // A plan to rescue three troubled New Jersey hospitals from bankruptcy is being challenged by their former owners, who claim mismanagement and an unfair land deal have tainted the reorganization.The bankruptcy-exit plan for...
Mar 12 2025 // A school bus carrying 31 people overturned on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey, sending more than a dozen people to hospitals, officials said. New Jersey State Police said 15 people, including the driver and 14 young...
Feb 26 2025 // In a prosecution that local news outlets had called “stunning,” a New Jersey judge has made an equally stunning dismissal of corruption and racketeering charges against insurance executive and Democratic power...
Feb 11 2025 // A section of a major New Jersey highway has been closed due to a sinkhole for the second time in less than two months.Crews are working to repair a sinkhole on the Eastbound side of Interstate 80 in Wharton. The lanes...
Feb 4 2025 // A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 57 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to receive, retitle, and “re-VIN” stolen vehicles.According to Acting U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna, Nathaniel Bell of Linden...
Jan 21 2025 // The New Jersey attorney general’s office cleared state law enforcement officials of wrongdoing in a corruption case involving former US Senator Robert Menendez, who awaits sentencing after his conviction last year.AG...
Dec 23 2024 // The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it was temporarily barring drone flights over dozens of critical infrastructure sites in New Jersey and New York.A frenzy of concern about drones in New Jersey and...
Dec 20 2024 // Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement...
Dec 19 2024 // The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday said it was temporarily barring drone flights over 22 utility locations in New Jersey amid public concern.The FAA said the decision to bar drones for 30 days at the sites was...
Dec 19 2024 // It’s not an accident that “The Sopranos,” the quintessential show about New Jersey, opens with its main character driving past gasoline and oil storage tanks along the New Jersey Turnpike.From the...
Dec 16 2024 // NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey and Minnesota sued Glock last Thursday, calling on the gunmaker to stop selling firearms that can be adapted with dime-sized switches to fire up to 1,200 rounds a minute.New Jersey Attorney...
Dec 11 2024 // Horace Mann Educators Corp., which targets teachers and others in education, announced its expansion into New Jersey.Already serving educators in more than 40 states, Horace Mann will offer its suite of financial and...
Dec 4 2024 // A decadelong conflict over the condition of a New Jersey resort town’s beaches, involving tens of millions of dollars in litigation and fines, could come to an end soon.Patrick Rosenello, the mayor of North Wildwood,...
Dec 2 2024 // New Jersey is using a mix of buyouts and barriers to tackle flooding in two vulnerable locations.Officials this week announced funding to buy and demolish homes in flood-prone sections of Cranford, a Union County community...
Nov 25 2024 // Afore Insurance Services, LLC has added BCA Insurance Group (BCA) of New Jersey to its platform as a partner in the Mid-Atlantic region.The acquisition allows BCA to expand its footprint by continuing to operate under the...
Nov 22 2024 // A New Jersey commercial baker in Paterson faces $385,221 in federal penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found the employer failed to correct workplace safety hazards identified in 2023.The...