Hero Cocker Spaniel, Oscar, Alerts Sleeping NJ Couple To House Fire
Laurie and Alex Esarco, who have two dogs, are praising their Cocker Spaniel, Oscar, who got their attention when flames engulfed the front of their Flemington home.
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Laurie and Alex Esarco, who have two dogs, are praising their Cocker Spaniel, Oscar, who got their attention when flames engulfed the front of their Flemington home.
It's a big step forward for a historic and controversial adoption bill. Lawmakers approved a plan Tuesday to unseal birth records for adoptees in New Jersey.
Authorities say an SUV going the wrong way down a New Jersey highway slammed head on into another vehicle, killing two people.
Police were investigating whether a driver from Switzerland ran a stop sign and slammed into a school bus, causing the bus to roll on its side in Lakewood.
Those for lifting the moratorium say increasing oil supplies will help lower gas prices, but the Sierra Club's Jeff Tittel says it's not worth threatening beaches.
Coughing, sneezing and itchy eyes are all signs that allergy season has hit New Jersey with a vengeance. Holy Name Medical Center allergy director Dr. Theodore Falk said tree pollen "just exploded" a week ago because it has been a cool spring.
It hardly seems like the time to be shutting up the house, but for allergy sufferers, that may be precisely the ticket for surviving this pollen-coated spring.
"I'm a kid from Jersey who has people asking him to run for president. I'm thrilled by it," he said. "I just don't want to do it."
New Jersey's American Civil Liberties Union chapter in September called for federal oversight of the city's 1,300-officer department.
The Big Apple has been granted a chunk of $2 billion that was rejected by the Sunshine State for three projects that will advance New York's high-speed rail plans.
Sixteen months after 9-year-old Sean Goldman was led through a crush of journalists and onlookers on a Rio de Janeiro street to return to his father, David Goldman became an activist for reuniting parents with kids abducted to other countries.
A PATH train coming into a Hoboken station struck the abutment on Sunday morning, causing multiple injuries, authorities said.
City residents hope the Newark Peace Education Summit, scheduled for Friday through Sunday, will shine a light on Newark's problems and bring added resources to the city for those in the anti-violence struggle.
Moms in the Tri-State will get great weather for Mother's Day with temperatures reaching a high of 73 degrees on Sunday.
The company planning to build what could be the nation's first offshore wind farm has received the final New Jersey state permits needed for the project.
