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 More than 100 investigators from the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control simultaneously entered the establishments around the state at 11 a.m., among them TGI Fridays in Clifton, The Brick House in Wyckoff and The Railroad Café in Rutherford, the state Attorney General’s Office said of the year-long probe it has dubbed “Operation Swill.”  Calling it a celebration of everyone working together to restore the community, U.S. Senator Robert Menendez joined New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and Mayor Matt Doherty for the ribbon cutting of the new boardwalk just days before Memorial Day weekend. Beginning on May 20, law enforcement officials will be out in full force, taking part in the 2013 national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization and cracking down on motorists who are not belted.
“Officers throughout New Jersey are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing their seat belt.”  The most expensive hospital in America is not in Beverly Hills or New York's Upper East Side. Based on its bills to Medicare, the Bayonne Medical Center charged the highest amounts in the country for nearly one-quarter of the most common hospital treatments, according to a New York Times analysis of 2011 data
 New Jersey added only 3,300 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate declined to 8.7 percent.
Compared to April of last year, the unadjusted workweek decreased by 1.0 hour, average hourly earnings decreased by $0.42, and weekly earnings were lower by $36.43.  SHOUT OUT Members of the Lodi Police Department shaved their heads to raise breast cancer awareness and show support for Alicia Veri-Rodriguez, who is battling the disease. As soon as Veri-Rodriguez’s cousin, Lodi Police Officer Dominic Miller, offered to shave his head, brother officers took up the cause, as well. Handling the clippers was Alicia’s [...]  The Senate on Monday approved a number of bills that are part of a comprehensive package on gun safety. Approved today were 10 bills that will help keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, crack down on gun trafficking, improve reporting and tracing of illegal firearms by law enforcement and find ways to reduce violence and improve school safety, among other actions.  One World Trade Center now stands a symbolic 1,776 feet high, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and third tallest in the world
With the final section of spire now in place, One World Trade Center stands as the Western Hemisphere’s tallest icon of freedom, resilience and the indomitable American spirit,” said Port Authority Vice Chairman Scott Rechler.
 Brad Pitt made a surprise appearance at a Hoboken, N.J., screening of his upcoming summer blockbuster, "World War Z," to the delight of a number of fans. On Wednesday night, the star of the film walked out with giveaway T-shirts, a microphone, and his killer ponytail to rile up a bunch of fans in the audience.
Pitt promised the excited crowd that what they were about to watch would be "epic," "scary as hell" and "the most intense thing you'll see all summer." YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST The driver of a tractor-trailer making a right from northbound Paramus Road to eastbound West Linwood Avenue in Paramus cut the corner too close and toppled a utility police this afternoon. Eastbound West Linwood Avenue was closed between Paramus Road and Route 17 while crews repaired the damage after the [...] New Jersey Transit bus riders will soon have a new way to get across the Hudson River by boat.
The ribbon on the Spring Lake, NJ, boardwalk was officially cut by Spring Lake Mayor Jennifer Naughton this morning at Pier Beach. The Mayor, along with Thomas A. Arnone, Freeholder Director and Serena DiMaso, Freeholder Deputy Director both of Monmouth County, presided over the ceremony. Mayor Naughton thanked her DPW crew, headed by Frank Phillips, for bringing the boardwalk to completion ahead of schedule.
The borough will bid farewell next month to fallen son Eric Christian, a marine killed May 4 in Afghanistan. Are the candidates perpetuating voter apathy by not asking for a recount? We believe so. For neighbors, a dark house instead of a well-lighted home at 252 Long Meadow Road on Thursday night served as a stark reminder of the events that transpired at the home earlier in the day. Demolition began Friday on the ill-fated Vista condominiums, a project that opened in 2008 as an attempt to spur development around the Great Falls but failed within two years when economic problems prevented construction of all but one of the 12 proposed buildings. More than 30 volunteer groups were recognized last week at a special volunteer appreciation night held by the township council in the Teaneck High School auditorium. The deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a house in Smoke Rise, an exclusive gated community, have been ruled a homicide and a suicide, authorities said Friday.
Police found the bodies after they were called to the house at 8 a.m. Thursday, Knapp said. There was no sign of forced entry, he said. YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A Clifton man who police said fled after wresting away an ATM card from a female bank employee this afternoon was arrested at his job in Carlstadt barely 20 minutes later, Moonachie Police Chief Michael Maguire said. Moonachie officers were called to the Valley National Bank branch on Moonachie Road [...] S. Epatha Merkerson, a star of the hit television crime show Law & Order, told Montclair State University graduates Friday that she hoped they would embrace life with the joy, grit and curiosity of her mother, who went skydiving last year at the age of 85. The deaths of two people whose bodies were found in a house in Smoke Rise, an exclusive gated community, have been ruled a murder-suicide, authorities said Friday. Totowa police report the following drug arrests. A group of Paterson children are learning a different way to see life – through the lens of a camera.
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