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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.
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. Christie's political ambitions could mean veto if governor wants to appeal to national Republican primary voters. Efforts to coordinate care, encourage patients to take medications cited as potential strategies. As Shore’s summer season looms, warnings about dangers of too much sun. At the start of the Memorial Day weekend, how much progress has New Jersey made in its recovery from Sandy? Well, if you ask Gov. Chris Christie, who has been traversing the state to announce that it's “open for business, 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.
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