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  • New Jersey to Get Billions in Federal Aid for Sandy

    New Jersey will receive between $20 billion and $25 billion of the $60 billion in federal funds set aside for Hurricane Sandy aid, Gov. Chris Christie said. The amount New Jersey will receive is less than the $37 billion in damage the state sustained in the Oct. 29 superstorm, but Christie said he didn't expect the federal funds to cover the total damage amount because they hadn't ...

  • New Jersey Sinkhole Factory Worker and Forklift Truck Swallowed Up By New Sinkhole

    May 21, 2013 10:19 am A New Jersey sinkhole has swallowed up a man working on a forklift truck on Monday, in the latest terrifying sinkhole to hit the nation. In this case the man survived and was later rescued, but the incident has again highlighted the issue of sinkholes.An emergency call was made to 911 on Monday afternoon reporting that a man and his forklift machine had been swallowed up by ...

  • 4 falcon chicks living on NY-NJ bridge are banded

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Four falcon chicks that live on the George Washington Bridge connecting Manhattan to New Jersey have gotten identifying bands around their ...

  • Jersey shore readies for 1st post-Sandy summer

    "The Jersey shore is open for the summer and ready to receive our customers," Gov. Chris Christie said Monday at a ceremony reopening the newly rebuilt Lavallette boardwalk, three-quarters of which was destroyed by the storm. "This is going to be a really good ...

  • Chris Harrison to host Miss America Pageant

    ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison will again emcee the Miss America Pageant this September in Atlantic City, N.J.Harrison has hosted the telecast for the last four years.The Miss America Organization says he'll be joined by Lara Spencer of "Good Morning America." Spencer served as a judge for the 2012 pageant. ...

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Chris Columbus' big-screen version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first novel in J.K Rowling's wildly popular series about a burgeoning boy wizard, is a beautifully mounted adventure movie that adheres almost fetishistically to its source material. ...

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  • Goat snarls traffic on NJs Pulask1 Skyway

    Jersey City Police Capt. Edgar Martinez says it took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point ...

  • Christie New Jersey to get $20B to $25B in federal aid for Sandy

    A looks over the beach in front a destroyed beach front home that was torn of its pilings on Long Beach Island November 1, 2012. Many homes on this resort New Jersey island were destroyed when Hurricane Sandy hit the area late October 29, 2012. UPI/John ...

  • NJ hospital lays off dozens

    The hospital blames a reduction in Medicare reimbursement under congressionally mandated automatic budget cuts and restructuring of its health care ...

  • Furloughs scrap NJ bases July Fourth event

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey's Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has canceled its annual July Fourth celebration due to furloughs caused by congressionally mandated automatic budget ...

  • Forklift operator escapes harm from NJ sinkhole

    EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Officials are trying to determine what caused the floor of a northern New Jersey warehouse to open up, swallowing a forklift and the man who was running ...

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