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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.
A truck carrying an oversize load struck a bridge on the major thoroughfare between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River below, though all three occupants suffered only minor injuries. Prudential Real Estate Investors, the Madison-based real estate management arm of Prudential Financial Inc. , announced Thursday it advised Mexico City-based Terrafina on a 600 million portfolio purchase in Mexico. Pinnacle Foods Inc. , of Parsippany, on Thursday announced it hired Mary Beth DeNooyer as executive vice president and chief human resources officer. Jersey City-based Datapipe, a provider of services and infrastructure for outsourced IT and cloud computing, announced Thursday it has entered into a strategic partnership with Project Objects to provide U. S. -based data center hosting services and secure cloud-based infrastructure. Terms were not disclosed. As jurors in Jodi Arias' murder trial filed one by one from the courtroom after a dramatic five months of gut-wrenching testimony and gruesome photographs, three women on the panel cried and one looked to the victim's family, mouthing the word, ""Sorry."" Light rail trains on the Hudson-Bergen line are experiencing slight delays Friday morning because of a police investigation. A proposed 13-screen movie theater and restaurant addition at Paramus Park mall won several key variances from the Paramus Zoning Board of Adjustment Thursday evening, giving the mall owner the go-ahead to proceed with the project. President Barack Obama on Thursday laid out a counterterrorism strategy for a post 9/11, postwar world that he said seeks to strike the right balance between providing security and safeguarding civil rights in an open society. He said that plan includes more oversight of U.S. drone strikes, shutting down the U.S. detainee center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and safeguarding press freedom. Assembly Democrats Connie Wagner and Tim Eustace (both D-Bergen/Passaic) on Thursday attended the grand reopening of Pascack Valley Hospital as Hackensack University Medical Center-North and applauded the efforts by Westwood Mayor John Birkner to ensure that the surrounding community still has access to vital, first-rate medical care.
Three teenagers are in custody Friday for allegedly robbing a man, police said. The unofficial start of summer in New Jersey is not being greeted by beach-perfect weather on the New Jersey shore. A Camden man has pleaded guilty to a role in a scheme to steal checks from industrial-park mailboxes and cash them. New Jersey (NJ) lottery results (winning numbers) and prize payouts for Pick 3 Midday, Pick 3 Evening, Pick 4 Midday, Pick 4 Evening, Jersey Cash 5, Pick 6, ... So-called teacher leaders would gain training, new skills, to serve as coordinators, facilitators -- without abandoning classrooms. Agency votes next week on $247M stipulated settlement with PSE&G.
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