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Members of the U.S. Coast Guard rescued two people Friday night after their sailboat grounded and overturned near Little Egg Inlet, the maritime border that separates southern Ocean County and northeastern Atlantic County, officials said Saturday. One …

New Jersey on Saturday reported six COVID-19 deaths and 3,243 new confirmed positive tests as today marks the third day this month new cases are cover 3000. The state’s seven-day average for confirmed cases increased to 2,554 on Saturday, up 19% from a…

Susan Olds, a member of the leadership team that expanded The Star-Ledger’s journalistic reach in the mid-1990s, died May 1 in Orlando, Fla. She was 74. During her tenure as assistant managing editor, Olds led an award-winning features department of mo…

National Nurses Week 2022 is May 6-12. To celebrate the hard work nurses put in to take care of their patients, several businesses are offering deals and free food. Here is what you need to know about the restaurants and retailers offering freebies all…

The Garden State has seen a resurgence of labor organizing in the service industry over the past two years, according to a new report from Rutgers University. Researchers at Rutgers’ Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) analyzed federal data…

DEAR ANNIE: I have been married to my husband for 11 years, together for 16. Let me start by saying I love my husband but am no longer in love with him. Unfortunately, he is a habitual liar. While most of his lies have been inconsequential, others have…

Magda Botros grew up in Egypt watching her father educate students year after year as a match teacher. So impressed, she decided to follow in his footsteps. Botros now feels she made her father, who passed last year, more than proud as the Jersey City …

Former New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri, who ran the DOT and NJ Transit during the planning and design of the ill-fated Access to the Region’s Core Tunnel, will be nominated by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and New York Gov. Kathy Hoch…

“Chief Rocka,” the signature hit for Newark-born rapper Dupré Kelly and his group Lords of the Underground, has been downloaded more than 40 million times on Spotify. If downloads were votes, that would be more than John F. Kennedy or any other U.S. pr…

Authorities on Friday said an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy have been charged in the sexual assault and robbery of a woman on a Morris County recreation trail earlier this week. The adult, identified as Lizandro Osorio-Mejia, faces charges incl…