New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie Announces Expansion Of Port Newark
With New Jersey's unemployment rate outpacing the nation, Gov. Chris Christie visited Port Newark on Wednesday to tout a $500 million deal that could lead to 800 new jobs.
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With New Jersey's unemployment rate outpacing the nation, Gov. Chris Christie visited Port Newark on Wednesday to tout a $500 million deal that could lead to 800 new jobs.
The agency's board eliminated giving a day's pay for every two consecutive months that workers showed up no more than 30 minutes late. The board also ended the 40-year practice that allowed workers to convert vacation and sick days to cash.
William Simkins' lawyer says the 31-year-old was chasing three teens on bicycles when 16-year-old Jason Broschard swerved into the car's path. Broschard was thrown from the bike and died at the scene.
Continental Airlines canceled 24 flights Wednesday, most of them out of Newark Liberty International Airport, due to "crew availability'' problems.
In some ways, Hoboken is a victim of its own success. A thriving nightlife means healthy businesses and a robust tax base but there's a price to be paid and it's meausre in decibels.
The Newark 50 Project is seeking to provide housing and comprehensive services to 50 people by December 2012.
Kevin Fernandez, 16, said he thought the modeling agency would get him work, but instead it allegedly charged his mom $1,000 for a photo shoot and asked for hundreds more to promote him.
The robbers got away with cellphones, wallets and other items, according to police. No one was injured.
That question evoked a wide-range of answers from people who took a Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind phone survey as well as people who called into the WCBS 880 talkback line.
Dharun Ravi is accused of remotely activating his webcam to spy on a same-sex encounter between his roommate Tyler Clementi and another man.
A legal battle may be brewing in Livingston over the issue of whether a resident has the right to erect a cross on his property.
Prosecutors said the men and several co-conspirators used personal information of hundreds of identity theft victims to create false income tax returns and generate refund checks. The checks were deposited into two dozen bank accounts the conspirators controlled.
Residents, business owners and lobbyists can comment on the plan at a hearing Tuesday afternoon at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark.
Citing an estimated $7.5 million in losses in New Jersey from health care fraud in 2010, the FBI's Newark office unveiled a series of digital advertisements that will be placed in shopping mall kiosks and on highway billboards across the state.
During one of the winter storms this past season, Long Beach Township sent out a reverse 911 advisory on conditions, but was short some 2,500 homes.
