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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. A monstrous tornado killed at least 24 people Monday as it roared through Moore and south Oklahoma City — leaving rescue workers frantically searching into the night for missing children at the devastated Plaza Towers Elementary School in the Moore School District.
 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.
It was the beginning of a new era — or the resumption of one that’s been on pause for years — today when Gov. Chris Christie attended the reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital, in Westwood, which closed in 2007 after running into financial problems. Some shareholders of Vornado Realty Trust would like the real estate company to appoint an independent chairman of the board, allow for annual elections of board members and elect members by majority vote, according to non-binding votes announced at today's annual meeting. Acting Morris County Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp is reporting that his office is involved with other law-enforcement agencies in the investigation of two individuals found deceased in a residence on Long Meadow Road in the gated Smoke Rise section. A township man and his two accomplices allegedly abducted and tortured a Queens businessman for over a month in an effort to extort $3 million from him and his family, New York City Police reported on May 30. District 27 reps listen to concerns about blasting in residential areas. Suicide bombers in Niger detonated two car bombs simultaneously on Thursday, one inside a military camp in the city of Agadez and another in the remote town of Arlit at a French-operated uranium mine, killing a total of 26 people and injuring 30, according to officials in Niger and France. Two Muslim hardliners say the man seen wielding a bloody butcher's knife after the killing of a British soldier is a Muslim convert who took part in demonstrations with the banned radical group al-Muhajiroun. An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. Gunmen killed at least seven soldiers in central Iraq on Thursday, officials said, in the latest episode of violence to hit the country in a particularly bloody month. An Iranian semi-official news agency reports the country is denying that an unmanned drone violated the airspace of Bahrain, the strategic Gulf kingdom that hosts the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet. Two bodies have been found in a home on Long Meadow Road in the Smoke Rise section of the borough, authorities said Thursday. During the day of May 16, Shanae Howard listened to the gospel song ""God Favored Me"" by Hezekiah Walker. ""She loved the Lord,"" said Shanae's mother, Errica Howard-Rush. Elmwood Park police assured anxious parents Thursday afternoon that their children are safe despite a threat that had caused a daylong lockdown of the borough’s middle and high schools and brief lockdowns of schools in nearby communities. Michael Durante faces up to 20 years in prision and a $250,000 fine for each of the 16 counts. A 19-year-old man smashed a store window to grab a cash register in an attempted burglary this week, but couldn't figure out how to open the machine, police said. So the man stashed it nearby and came back for it hours later, where police were waiting.
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