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Egg Harbor Cool With Medical Marijuana

Egg Harbor Township in New Jersey is just the second municipality to OK a medical marijuana facility since the state legislature passed a measure two […]

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Governor Christie Live-Tweets Bruce Springsteen Concert

Governor Christie Live-Tweets The Boss. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was at the Springsteen show at the Well last night and live-tweeted the whole thing. […]

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Report: The DRPA Has Wasted Millions of Your Toll Dollars

Jersey’s comptroller has slammed the Delaware River Port Authority for misuse of toll payers’ money. Matthew Boxer scolds the DRPA for “economic development” spending and […]

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Convicted Rutgers Roommate Dharun Ravi’s First Interview

Dharun Ravi gave his first interview after being convicted on 14 counts of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation to ABC. In it, he speaks […]

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No Hugging at This Jersey Middle School

No touching! A Jersey middle school has banned hugging. The school’s principal informed his 900 students that hugging is simply forbidden after numerous “incidents of […]

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Does the Punishment Fit the Crime in the Rutgers Webcam Case?

The unprecedented verdict in the Rutgers webcam case has unleashed all manner of ethical dilemmas, none of which can be neatly resolved. The most pressing […]

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Jersey Top State for Government Integrity

The State Integrity Investigation awarded Jersey a “B+” after determining 330 “corruption risk indicators.” Jersey earned “A’s” in a number of categories including “internal auditing” […]

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Guilty Verdict in Rutgers Webcam Case

A jury has found former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi guilty of invasion of privacy, witness tampering, tampering with evidence and bias intimidation. Ravi’s roommate at […]

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Autistic Student From South Jersey Headed to Scripps National Spelling Bee

A Roland Rogers Elementary School sixth-grader is headed to Washington DC to participate in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Ebose Eigbe won the Regional, South […]

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Tourists Dropped $38 Billion in Jersey Last Year

That kind of money buys a lot of beach passes and pancakes at Uncle Bill’s. A recent report shows that tourists spent $38 billion in […]

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Rutgers Webcam Spying Case Handed to Jury

The fate of former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi is in the hands of a jury after two weeks of testimony. Ravi is charged with […]

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Wild Turkey Flew Through School Bus Windshield

Today in bird suicide news, a wild turkey flew through the windshield of a school bus in South Jersey. The bus was on the way […]

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Chris Christie Is Governor, So Just Shut Up for a Second

Things got a little tense at Chris Christie’s town hall-style appearance in Burlco yesterday. A 34-year-old law student at Rutgers-Camden. The man was urging Christie […]

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New Jersey Representative Donald Payne Dead at 77

Democratic Representative Donald Payne passed away in Essex county this morning at the age of 77. The first black congressman to represent New Jersey, Payne […]

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Chris Christie Won’t Help Romney Much Against Obama in New Jersey

A new Quinnipiac survey indicates that a GOP ticket with Chris Christie as the vice president wouldn’t do much good for Mitt Romney in New […]