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Gov. Chris Christie moved to diversify the state's all-white Supreme Court on Monday with two firsts: the nominations of an openly gay black man and a Korean-born prosecutor to fill two vacancies.
New Jersey Sen. Joseph Kyrillos announced Thursday he intends to seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate to run against Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez in November.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie postponed his State of the State address to the Legislature on Tuesday, delivering in its place a eulogy for the Republican Assembly leader who collapsed at the end of a lengthy session and died the night before.
Grieving New Jersey lawmakers returned to the Capitol on Tuesday to begin a new legislative session with a low-key swearing-in ceremony as they mourned the death of a Republican leader who collapsed at the Statehouse the night before. Gov. Chris Christie planned to deliver a remembrance instead of his annual State of the State address, which was postponed.
New Jersey Republican Assembly leader Alex DeCroce, credited by Gov. Chris Christie with helping him get his start in politics, died suddenly in the Statehouse as the legislative session was wrapping up. He was 75.
Some New Jerseyans want the name of a political cartoonist who created the images of Santa Claus and Uncle Sam scratched from the state Hall of Fame's list of nominees because he also drew unflattering caricatures of the Irish.
Mobsters have a long history of making a killing in the garbage-hauling business, but a New Jersey commission says they have gone green by infiltrating the commercial recycling business.
Ambitious. Impatient. Stubborn. Highly tolerant of risk. The personality traits that helped Jon Corzine move from his boyhood farm in Willey Station, Ill., to the heights of power on Wall Street and in New Jersey politics also may be partially responsible for his spectacular downfalls in government and finance.
Jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, former NFL coach Bill Parcells and "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve are among the nominees for the New Jersey Hall of Fame's 2012 class.
A panel of three federal judges indicated Tuesday they were having second thoughts about their ruling last week that Carl Lewis, the nine-time Olympic gold medalist who has had a bumpy entry into New Jersey politics, was eligible to be on the ballot for a state Senate seat.
The United States is safer now than it was when terrorists attacked New York and Washington 10 years ago, yet terrorism remains a significant threat, Tom Kean Sr., the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, said Friday
Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis says he's happy the challenge of his bid to run for office in New Jersey appears to be behind him.
Gov. Chris Christie has recommended a one-year ban on a natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, disappointing environmentalists who had hoped New Jersey would become the first state to permanently forbid the technique.
A freshman Republican lawmaker resigned because his wife sent "an offensive and racist" email to the Democratic state Senate campaign of nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, a GOP official acknowledged Monday.
A federal judge delayed ruling Friday on whether Carl Lewis can run for elected office in New Jersey, prolonging a monthslong legal fight over whether the nine-time Olympic gold medalist meets the state's four-year residency requirement for candidates.
For anyone curious about what Jim McGreevey is up to seven years after coming out of the closet to become the first openly gay governor and resigning over an affair with a male staffer, his simple answer is this: "Having lunch at Hudson County Correctional Center."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie arrived at the state Capitol late Friday morning, telling The Associated Press he felt fabulous and was ready to work after spending several hours the day before in an emergency room for treatment of an asthma attack.
Gov. Chris Christie was "in charge and at work" in a hospital room Thursday following emergency treatment for asthma, his deputy chief of staff said.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie expects to be released from a hospital Thursday night after undergoing tests because he had difficulty breathing.
Blunt-talking Gov. Chris Christie, who some Republicans have been trying to persuade to run for president, was taken to a hospital Thursday after he had difficulty breathing.
Raw sewage that had been spilling into the Hudson River was stopped on Friday night after pumps at a wastewater treatment plant began working again.
The political wrangling could continue until fall for Carl Lewis, the nine-time Olympic gold medalist who wants to compete as a Democrat for a seat in the New Jersey Legislature.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday signed landmark legislation that increases pension and health contributions paid by a half-million teachers, police and other public workers and removes the issue from collective bargaining for four years.
The New Jersey Assembly passed landmark legislation Thursday that requires public employees to pay sharply more for pension and health benefits, driving a wedge through the Democratic caucus that controls the chamber but was deeply divided on the bill.
The struggle to legislate higher pension and health benefits contributions for 500,000 public workers in New Jersey is shaking up the political status quo: Organized labor is attacking its traditional Democratic allies and pro-union Democrats are pitted against colleagues who plan to vote to limit collective bargaining.
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