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Former Birdsall executives reject states offer plead not guilty to charges

Birdsall Executives Reject Plea Offer: Seven former executives of troubled engineering firm Birdsall Services Group entered pleas of not guilty at their arraignment in Toms River, NJ, on criminal charges of making illegal campaign contributions. STAFF VIDEO BY THOMAS P. ...
Christie joins Lavallette for boardwalk ceremony

NJ Gov. Chris Christie visits Lavallette to witness the completion of the boardwalk in town which was destroyed by superstorm Sandy. / Bob Bielk/Staff ...
Man taken to hospital not charged after Hazlet standoff authorities said

barricaded himself in a Hazlet home , was taken to the hospital by police Sunday night and was not charged, authorities said. Authorities are not releasing the ...
Poll Sandy wont alter Jersey Shore travel plans

Two-thirds of respondents consider themselves to be regular shore visitors, and 69% of those people plan to spend the same amount or more time at the Shore this ...
NJ Senate leaders take jabs at one another

Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney has pulled all 7 Republican-sponsored bills from Monday's agenda and says no GOP legislation will see daylight until further ...

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New Jersey Homes Not Just Underwater But Washed Away

The announcement that the federal government will provide $300 million to start buying out houses in certain flood-prone areas brought a joy of relief to many homeowners anxious for a fresh start after seeing superstorm Sandy destroy their neighborhoods. We support these buyouts in order to get homes out of flood- prone zones while providing new open space in those areas that can better ...
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey state senator is suggesting dropping the gas tax for drivers of passenger cars and replacing it with a per-mile ...
Southern NJ country club to be auctioned off

Woodcrest Country Club in Cherry Hill is being auctioned off on Monday. It takes up 155 acres in the middle of one of Philadelphia's biggest and most affluent ...
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NEW YORK -; Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion which would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the ...
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Man held after four-year-old son shoots neighbour kid

The father of a four-year-old boy in New Jersey was arrested after his son fatally shot a six-year-old neighbour in the head, CNN reported.

Anthony Senatore, 33, was charged with six counts of endangering the welfare of children and a disorderly person's offence for enabling access by minors to a loaded firearm, said prosecutor Jim McClain from the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.

Senatore's son was playing in the yard April 8 when he went inside and retrieved his father's loaded .22-calibre rifle from the bedroom.

When he came back out, he fired a single shot that struck six-year-old Brandon Holt in the head.

Brandon was taken to the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead the next day.

In addition to the loaded rifle, four other firearms were found in Senatore's bedroom, all unsecured, close to ammunition and accessible to his three children, the prosecutor's office said.