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A New Jersey-based medical transport that shorted 87 workers in their pay agreed to compensate the employees $578,018 in back wages and health benefits, federal officials said. Virgo Medical Services Inc., of East Orange, reached a settlement with the …

The Ivan Julian Band headlines this year’s Hoboken’s Spring Arts & Music Festival on Sunday, May 1. And while Julian himself may be unfamiliar to many festgoers, his bandmates include several Mile Square scene stalwarts: James Mastro (Bongos, Karyn Kuh…

Have you been following this whole firestorm over sex education in New Jersey? You’d be forgiven for thinking it all started with just a few parents who stumbled across a cringy video intended for their kids’ health class, or that it’s a grassroots pro…

New Jersey on Wednesday reported 14 new COVID-19 deaths and 2,452 new confirmed positive tests as Dr. Anthony Fauci declared the pandemic phase of the outbreak over. “We are certainly, right now, in this country out of the pandemic phase,” Fauci said T…

A 25-year-old New Jersey man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for trying to rob a gambler playing a slot machine Bally’s in Atlantic City, officials said. Shawn P. Applewhite will have to serve almost seven years before he eligible for parol…

The arrest of two brothers in the shooting death of a Newark grandmother during a birthday celebration last year resulted from information provided by the getaway driver and facial recognition technology that matched the duo to surveillance video near …

Firefighters rescued a California woman after she fell into a toilet at a Washington national park while trying to retrieve her cellphone. The 40-year-old woman was inside a bathroom at Olympic National Forest when her cellphone dropped into the toilet…

As part of NJ.com’s EmpowerU event series, we’re hosting a free virtual webinar detailing everything to know about selling a home in today’s hot market. The 90-minute webinar is Thursday, April 28 at 3 p.m. and is sponsored by Family First Funding and …

A Gloucester County business has recalled 120,872 pounds of ground beef over possible E. coli contamination, federal officials announced. The products were produced between Feb. 1 and April 8, and sold to retailers nationwide, the U.S. Department of Ag…

Princeton High School students who were finalists in a nationwide education competition for STEM skills were named a national winner on Tuesday, earning $110,000 for their school. The students were chosen to be one of three winners receiving $100,000 i…