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New Jersey’s Supreme Court is considering whether an Atlantic City casino can get payouts from business interruption insurance for losses during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey has announced that he will run against Sen. Robert Menendez in the state’s Democratic primary for Senate next year, saying he feels compelled to run against the three-term senator after he and his wife were indicted on sweeping corruption charges.

The sweeping bribery case brought against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez includes allegations that he took cash and gold in exchange for interfering in a criminal case against a New Jersey real estate developer.

Governments, organizations and businesses have set ambitious goals to combat climate change.

Labor officials in New Jersey have lifted a stop-work order that had temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in the state.

Commercial casinos in the U.S. had their best July ever this year, winning nearly $5.4 billion from gamblers, according to a national gambling industry group.

A scathing federal report has found New Jersey's two state-run veterans homes were unprepared to keep residents safe during the COVID-19 outbreak, violating their constitutional rights to reasonable care while in state custody.

The Boss is taking an unexpected breather and postponing his September shows, citing doctors’ orders.

Lionel Messi did not speak with reporters after his Major League Soccer debut, a violation of the league’s media rules.

Fox News reached an estimated 12.8 million viewers on two television channels and its streaming network for the first GOP presidential primary debate of the 2024 season, even though former President Donald Trump skipped it.

It’s almost time for the first Republican presidential debate.

On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, host Glenna Milberg is joined by Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried, author and educator Marvin Dunn, attorney and political analyst Rafael Yaniz, attorney Loreal Arscott, journalist and political analyst Anne Geggis and attorney Marili Cancio.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run for president in 2024, sat for a one-and-one interview on Friday with This Week In South Florida’s host Glenna Milberg after participating in a town hall in Miami-Dade County.

Former President Donald Trump now says he won’t be holding a press conference next week to unveil what he claims is new evidence of fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia, citing the advice of lawyers.

A church associate charged with gunning down a New Jersey councilwoman has been indicted on murder and weapons charges.

State labor officials have temporarily shut down more than two dozen Boston Market restaurants in New Jersey.

New Jersey has accepted a revised settlement over chemical dumping that turned a Jersey Shore community into one of America’s most notorious toxic waste cleanup sites.

Authorities say the body of a fourth victim has been found following an explosion and fire that destroyed a New Jersey house and seriously injured two children.

An explosion has destroyed a house in southern New Jersey and left three people dead and two children seriously injured.

Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver, who rose to become one of New Jersey’s most prominent Black leaders and passionately advocated for revitalizing cities and against gun violence, died Tuesday after a sudden illness.

New Jersey is pushing an ambitious agenda to move its 9 million residents away from natural gas and gasoline to heat their homes and power their cars, in favor of electricity to do the job of both.

New Jersey has filed a federal lawsuit aimed at stopping New York’s plan to charge big tolls to drive into the most visited parts of Manhattan.

Taco Bell has rung up a win in its quest to make “Taco Tuesday” free of trademark restrictions.

Illinois became the first state in the nation to eliminate cash bail as a condition of pretrial release from jail on Tuesday.

Extreme rainfall accompanied by deadly flooding hit the United States and several other countries, causing submerged and damaged roads and other destruction that has raised concerns about growing impacts of climate change.

Extreme weather conditions enveloped the U.S. Monday as the East Coast recovered from flooding, sizzling temperatures beset the West and several northern states contended with unsafe air quality from Canadian wildfires.

A New Jersey fire chief says two firefighters were killed and five others injured battling a blaze inside a docked cargo ship carrying more than a thousand vehicles.

The federal government has given the go-ahead for New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm to begin construction.

The future of a bill that would let Danish offshore wind developer Orsted keep tax credits that it otherwise would have to return to New Jersey ratepayers was uncertain Friday afternoon after it failed to gather enough support in the state Senate.

Internet gambling would be allowed to take place for at least five more years under the latest proposal by New Jersey lawmakers.

A Belgium-based chemical company will spend nearly $393 million under a settlement to clean up contamination from its so-called forever chemicals in New Jersey’s drinking water and soil and to compensate for the environmental damage they caused.

Leona Maguire of Ireland birdied four of her final six holes for a 3-under 68 and a one-shot lead over three players Friday at the halfway point of the KMPG Women’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol.

The voice is familiar to many millions of New York City subway riders.

New Jersey’s casinos, horse tracks that take sports bets and the online partners of both types of gambling won nearly $471 million in May, an increase of 9.4% from a year earlier, according to figures released Monday by state gambling regulators.

Opponents of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey are gathering force legally and politically as they seek to snuff out the new industry.

Jurors in federal court in New Jersey have awarded $25.6 million to a former regional Starbucks manager who alleged that she and other white employees were unfairly punished by the coffee chain after the high-profile arrests of two Black men in 2018 at a Philadelphia location.

Christie is vying for the nation’s top office after he served as governor of New Jersey from 2010 to 2018.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is expected to launch his second campaign for the Republican nomination for president next week in New Hampshire.

New Jersey prosecutors say they have arrested a Virginia man on murder and gun charges in the February killing of a local councilwoman who was found fatally shot in her SUV outside her home.

Businessperson Karrin Taylor Robson says she won't run for the Arizona Senate seat now held by independent Kyrsten Sinema.

The failure of several large lenders earlier this year and the banking turmoil that followed have fueled worries for owners of office space.

Heavy equipment crews are moving sand along a stretch of badly eroded beach in North Wildwood where a bitter fight over how to protect its rapidly shrinking beaches has led to $33 million worth of litigation.

New Jersey environmental officials will allow a shore town to carry out emergency repairs to its badly eroded beachfront, even as the two sides continue a years-long fight over how best to protect the popular Jersey Shore resort’s fragile coastline.

The Justice Department has reached a settlement with a New Jersey county over language barriers for Spanish-speaking voters, emphasizing a growing challenge for certain minority communities nationwide.

A metallic object believed to be a meteorite punched a hole in the roof of a central New Jersey home.

The U.S. Secret Service says it blocked a Muslim mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, from attending a White House celebration with President Joe Biden to belatedly mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Dougie Hamilton scored 11:36 into overtime and the New Jersey Devils beat the New York Rangers 2-1 to cut their series deficit to 2-1.

New Jersey is changing its gambling regulations to set advertising standards, making it easier for people with gambling problems to exclude themselves from casinos and marketing from the gambling houses, and creating a position to monitor how well the state’s problem gambling outreach efforts are working.

While two-thirds of the country now offers legal sports betting, only six states offer online casino gambling, confounding industry hopes that the rapid growth of sports betting would also bring internet casino betting along with it.

New Jersey residents looking to buy or lease an electric vehicle won’t be able to get a government rebate — at least temporarily.

Rutgers University and union representatives have announced an agreement on a framework for new contracts with several faculty unions, allowing a halt to a five-day strike that was the first such job action in the 257-year history of New Jersey’s flagship university.

Firefighters in New Jersey confronted 200-foot high flames as they battled a wildfire in the state’s Pine Barrens.

Three years after the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Atlantic City’s casinos are collectively struggling to get back to where they were before COVID-19 in terms of profitability.

Thousands of professors, part-time lecturers and graduate student workers at New Jersey’s flagship university have gone on strike.

A Miami couple and five other people faced multiple federal charges after authorities accused them of running a telemarketing ring targeting seniors who owned timeshares.

The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge slowed sharply last month, an encouraging sign in the Fed’s yearlong effort to cool price pressures through steadily higher interest rates.

The 6-year-old son of South Florida rapper Flo Rida has been in the ICU for several weeks after falling from the window of an apartment building, Local 10 News learned Thursday.

A career criminal whose rap sheet includes bank robberies and a murder conspiracy was sentenced to 16 years for killing a New Jersey political consultant in exchange for money in 2014.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who is mulling another presidential run, says Republicans need a candidate who can execute a quick takedown of Donald Trump.

New Jersey’s attorney general says his office has taken control of the police department in the state’s third-largest city, Paterson.

Add Fairleigh Dickinson to the list of giant-killing New Jersey colleges in March Madness.

Bruce Springsteen's show Tuesday in Albany, New York, has become the third concert in a week postponed by the New Jersey rocker for illness reasons, a month into his first major tour in six years."

Coastal communities around the world are adding a tropical twist to shoreline protection, courtesy of the humble coconut.

As dead whales continue to wash ashore on the U.S. East Coast, officials and academics in New Jersey, New York and elsewhere are planning a wide array of monitoring and research aimed at preventing harm to the animals during construction and operation of offshore wind farms.

Residents of low-income New Jersey communities that would get a second gas-fired power plant are urging the governor to stop the project.

The Supreme Court is hearing a dispute between New York and New Jersey over New Jersey’s desire to withdraw from a commission the states formed decades ago to combat the mob’s influence at their joint port.

A felon faces two charges after federal agents say he tried to board a plane with three guns, ammunition and a fake U.S. marshal's badge.

A felon faces two charges after federal agents say he tried to board a plane with three guns, ammunition and a fake U.S. marshal's badge.

A family birthday celebration in Miami turned tragic for a father and his sons from New Jersey.

The sandstorm being waged between New Jersey environmental officials and a defiant shore town bolstering its dunes without state permission is intensifying.

In New York, far from her home in northern Ukraine, Valeriya Roshkovan has tried to do what she can to bring an end to Russia’s invasion of her country.

A trial of a four-day workweek in Britain, billed as the world’s largest, has found that most employees are less stressed, burned out and have better work-life balance.

New Jersey utility regulators have used a controversial law enabling them to bypass local authorities and grant approvals needed for an offshore wind project to proceed.

Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state’s environmental law _ signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago _ to take full effect.

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy is expanding Advanced Placement African American Studies courses from one school to 26 in New Jersey.

A beloved kindergarten teacher disappears in Jersey City, N.J., and her estranged husband, suspected in her murder, is picked up in a Miami motel on Biscayne Boulevard.

The gambling industry's national trade group predicts that 1 in 5 American adults will make a bet on Sunday's Super Bowl between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.

Authorities say a 29-year-old woman used false documents to enroll as a New Jersey high school student and attended some classes over a four-day period before her scheme was discovered last week.

Federal environmental and energy officials say there is no evidence that work done by the offshore wind power industry is killing whales in the northeastern U.S. On Wednesday, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management addressed the controversy surrounding a spate of whale deaths on the East Coast that some groups suspect may have been caused by site preparation work for offshore wind farms.

Americans cut back on spending in December, the second consecutive month they’ve done so, underscoring how inflation and the rising cost of using credit cards slowed consumer activity over the crucial holiday shopping season.

Officials say the most recent whale found dead on a New Jersey shoreline had apparently been struck by a vessel.

An art teacher from New Jersey is scheduled to appear in court next month, months after he was accused of overdosing on fentanyl in front of a group of middle school students.

Environmental groups and opponents of offshore wind energy want a federal investigation into the deaths of six whales that have washed ashore in New Jersey and New York in little over a month.

A New Jersey woman who pleaded guilty to helping her boyfriend spread a feel-good story that garnered more than $400,000 in online donations has been sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges.

The Colonial Pipeline says a diesel fuel leak in Virginia has shut down part of the nation’s largest fuel pipeline, but it is expected to restart Saturday.

Netflix says it plans to build a state-of-the-art production facility at a former Army base at the Jersey Shore that will cost more than $900 million, and create thousands of jobs.

Amid a planned journey to the Florida Keys, two men and a pet dog were rescued from a sailboat without power or fuel more than 200 miles off Delaware, 10 days after friends and relatives had last heard from them, the U.S. Coast Guard said Tuesday.

Gas prices have again dropped sharply in New Jersey and around the country as demand remains slow and supplies continue to increase.

Brock Nelson scored twice, Cal Clutterbuck had a goal and an assist and the New York Islanders beat New Jersey 6-4, handing the first-place Devils just their second regulation loss in 21 games.

Federal courts in Brazil have ordered a New Jersey-based fishing tour compay operating in the Amazon to cease and desist.

Two Philadelphia developers want to build a $3 billion housing, office and retail project on the site of a historic former airport in Atlantic City.

The offshore wind power energy has ambitious plans for generating electricity for millions of American homes.

Jesper Boqvist scored the tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and the New Jersey Devils beat the Arizona Coyotes 4-2 Saturday night for their ninth straight win.

The second game of the season for new Seton Hall coach Shaheen Holloway is his old team, Saint Peter's.

A law enforcement official says that federal agents have identified the man they believe posted a broad online threat against synagogues in New Jersey.

The FBI said on Thursday it had received credible information about a “broad” threat to synagogues in New Jersey, a warning that promoted some municipalities to send extra police officers to guard houses of worship.

The rate of deaths that can be directly attributed to alcohol rose nearly 30% in the U.S. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Survivors of storms that pounded several U.S. states say the nation’s disaster aid system is broken and they want less red tape to get relief money.

The iconic getaway town of Atlantic City is known to some people for its casinos, others for its amusement park and boardwalk.

Irate that a session to discuss a proposed smoking ban during a casino industry conference was canceled, casino workers and patrons opposed to smoking in the gambling halls held a noisy protest outside the meeting Thursday in New Jersey.