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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.
Hackensack's City Council and school board separately settled contracts for teachers, firefighters and fire supervisors. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell 23,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 340,000, a level consistent with solid job growth. Cablevision Systems Corp., the fifth- largest U.S. cable company, asked police to remove people from its annual meeting Thursday after shareholders protested the company’s union pay policies. Shareholders of Vornado Realty Trust voted to support proposals calling for an independent chairman of the board, annual elections of board members, and election of board members by majority vote, the company announced at its annual shareholders meeting Thursday in Saddle Brook. Multi-family lending was a bright spot in an otherwise lackluster first quarter for northern New Jersey’s regional and community banks, according to a new analysis of federal data conducted by The Record. Investors have grown nervous that the Federal Reserve will scale back its efforts to boost the U.S. economy sooner than many expected. The average meal at a chain restaurant contains more than half the calories, 1.5 times as much sodium and almost all the fat that people are recommended to consume in an entire day, researchers in Canada found. Elisabeth Partafylla has been named the Cliffside Park High School's valedictorian. Cub Scout Den 10 from Pack 49 of Oak Ridge visited the Rockaway Lanes Bowling Alley in Rockaway and received a behind-the-scenes tour while earning a bowling belt loop. The boys are third-graders at White Rock Elementary School. Last Tuesday the Internet was abuzz with questions about the sun. Millions of people on the East Coast saw a fairly common “sun halo.” Touch-a-Truck-Day a community event. Writer urges fellow residents to stand against propsed housing developments. Jamie Pawlick, of Oakridge, is a May graduate of Lycoming College. Pawlick graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in English. Resident responds to fellow letter writer. Letters to the editor of the Hackensack Chronicle for the week of May 24.
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