A key deadline is coming at the end of this week for birth parents who don’t want to be identified by their children. A new law would go into effect to unseal birth records for adopted people in New Jersey. Birth parents have the chance to redact key information that would allow the child to…
A North Jersey man likely gets the award for the worst human being of the week. 48 year old Darryl Green of Piscataway worked as a morgue technician. Green is accused of stealing $1,120 from the body of a man who was killed in a motor vehicle accident last weekend. Green is scheduled in court…
A new exit ramp on the Garden State Parkway will require drivers to have EZ Pass or they will face a 25 dollar fine. NJ.com reports that the new ramp being constructed at Exit 125 will require EZ Pass because there is no room to also install a cash-only lane. About 80 percent of all…
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is calling for compassion for victims of drug addiction. Christie held an event in Trenton Wednesday night and is calling for an end to the shame associated with victims of addictions. Christie was joined by former governor Jim McGreevey during a candlelight vigil held at the Statehouse that drew more…
It is possible that a bill that would allow local towns the option of putting their legal notices on their websites instead of taking paid ads out in newspapers could be revisited after the new year. Senate President Steve Sweeney told reporters that if the Assembly takes some action on the bill, it will certainly…
More New Jerseyans are signing up for Obamacare. New figures released by the federal government show a 14 percent increase in the number of state residents who have enrolled in the Affordable Care Act. The deadline for enrollment is January 31st; some people say they are signing up before it is repealed by President-elect Donald…
It was a fire for the record books. Fire officials in North Bergen say a five alarm fire that tore through the Kennedy Furniture Store in that community created flames and smoke that could be seen as far away as Secaucus. A construction crew was working on the roof of the one story building when…
The South Jersey community of Carneys Point has filed a $1.1 billion lawsuit against DuPont. Carney’s Point alleges that DuPont sold off a local factory complex in order to avoid having to clean up various pollution with a price tag of over $1 billion. The lawsuit was filed in Superior Court last week and alleges…
President Barack Obama took pen to paper and signed a ban of offshore drilling off the coast of New Jersey. The ban extends from Virginia to Massachusetts. Many lawmakers have been calling for a ban of drilling off the coast, including U.S. Senator Robert Menendez and many local leaders. The area includes nearly 6,000 square…
Governor Christie has taken to social media to express his petulance over the legislature’s failure to approve a measure that would have allowed towns to place their legal ads on their own websites. Christie unleashed a Twitter tirade on Tuesday calling newspapers “special interest groups” and maintains the move to take the legal ads away…