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Oct 23 2025 // The state of New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, accusing the company of unlawfully refusing workplace accommodations to warehouse employees who have disabilities or were pregnant and firing some who asked for...
Sep 2 2025 // New Jersey’s governor is asking federal officials to impose restrictions on nonessential helicopter flights in his state after a New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair in April, killing six...
Sep 12 2025 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a New Jersey law that barred carrying firearms in so-called sensitive places like schools and public gatherings.The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 139-page opinion, recounted...
Jun 19 2025 // New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday, after a Catholic diocese that had tried for years to block such proceedings recently...
Aug 1 2025 // Thunderstorms disrupted New York City transit and inundated roads just as workers started their the home-bound commute Thursday, but conditions were improving into the night and Friday morning commuters can likely expect...
Nov 18 2025 // The New Jersey NAACP and two Latino groups last week filed suit against the state Department of Banking and Insurance, charging that the agency encourages discrimination in auto insurance rates by allowing insurers to use...
May 1 2025 // Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times Monday about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state from empaneling a grand jury to investigate clergy sexual abuse allegations.The high...
Sep 19 2025 // Transportation company Lyft has paid the state of New Jersey $19.4 million to settle a case involving misclassification of more than 100,000 drivers as independent contractors.According to the New Jersey Department of...
Sep 23 2025 // Students should be banned from using cell phones in school, parents should delay their child’s access to social media, and social media companies should restrict access for users younger than 16.Those are among the...
Nov 10 2025 // New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Division of Criminal Justice (DCJ) reported that four men were charged in a 61-count indictment for their respective roles in an auto theft and home invasion ring.The...
Jul 18 2025 // A lightning strike at an archery range in Jackson, New Jersey killed a man and injured 13 others Wednesday evening, according to police.Around 7:15 p.m., police were notified that multiple people were struck by lightning...
Nov 26 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor has cited a fresh-cut vegetable processing company for willfully and repeatedly violating safety requirements after a worker was fatally injured while cleaning and sanitizing a machine.The...
Nov 14 2025 // New Jersey officials announced five new environmental enforcement actions in communities considered overburdened under New Jersey’s Environmental Justice Law and the settlement of two previous environmental justice...
Jul 7 2025 // The pilot of a skydiving team encountered mechanical issues that prompted an emergency landing at a small New Jersey airport but could not get the plane stopped at the end of the runway, the company said in a statement...
Apr 25 2025 // New Jersey sued the property management software company RealPage, accusing it and 10 of the state’s largest landlords of conspiring to drive up residential rents, violating federal and state antitrust laws and New...
Nov 17 2025 // Authorities in New Jersey are investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was reported to have fallen from a 20th-story window.Newark police were called to a high-rise apartment building at 7 a.m. Saturday on the...
Jun 26 2025 // Tesla was sued on Monday by the estates of three people killed last September when their 2024 Model S equipped with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features crashed on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway.The wrongful...
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...
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...
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...