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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.
“Operation Swill,” a raid executed by more than 100 ABC and Division of Criminal Justice investigators targeted 29 establishments that were allegedly substituting premium alcoholic beverage brands with "well brand spirits," i.e., non-premium brands. 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. Weekday commuters traveling from Manhattan to New Jersey may be able to shave half an hour off their evening commute under a bus-ferry pilot program that NJ Transit and NY Waterway plan to roll out June 3. New Eyes for the Needy, located at 549 Millburn Ave. in Short Hills, is seeking student volunteers ages 14 and over. A grand jury convicted a Nutley doctor on Wednesday for providing prescriptions for more than 70,000 oxycodone pills, which were to be illegally resold by co-conspirators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced in a press release. 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. Millburn High School's Science Research Program will hold its ninth annual Science Research Symposium on Monday June 3 President Barack Obama is set to at least partially bring out into the open some of the U.S.-directed drone program, a key component of counterterrorism strategy, as he outlines the contours of the continuing threat to American security. One man was sent to the hospital after his van flipped over while driving eastbound on Route 80 in Totowa Thursday afternoon, police said. Millburn High School's student-led a cappella group, Soulfege, will host the SAVE Students Aid Vocal Education a cappella festival. Paramus Police Blotter for May 23 Oradell Police Blotter for May 23 A prosecutor says a woman on trial in Tucson contaminated her hospitalized infant daughter's intravenous lines in an attempt to get attention from the girl's father. President Barack Obama is condemning what he calls an ""appalling attack"" that killed a British soldier Wednesday. Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season.
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