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#1 New Jersey High Court Allows Clergy Sex Abuse Grand Jury Opposed by Diocese
Jun 19 2025 // New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday, after a Catholic diocese that had tried for years to block such proceedings recently...
#2 J&J’s Court-Shopping Strategy Pits New Jersey Home Against Texas
Oct 10 2024 // Johnson & Johnson’s bold move to skirt a US court in New Jersey and seek a potentially friendlier venue in Texas to settle claims its baby powder gave women cancer faces a key decision as soon as Thursday. A...
#3 New Jersey Debates: Protect Against Floods or Retreat From Shore?
Aug 7 2024 // New Jersey officials are defending proposed building rules designed to limit damage from future storms and steadily rising seas in coastal areas, countering criticism that the state aims to force people away from the...
#4 Court Questions NJ Diocese’s Bid to Block Grand Jury on Clergy Sex Abuse
May 1 2025 // Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times Monday about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop the state from empaneling a grand jury to investigate clergy sexual abuse allegations. The high...
#5 Lightning Strike at New Jersey Archery Range Kills 1, Injures 13
Jul 18 2025 // A lightning strike at an archery range in Jackson, New Jersey killed a man and injured 13 others Wednesday evening, according to police. Around 7:15 p.m., police were notified that multiple people were struck by lightning...
#6 New Jersey Skydiving Company Says Plane Went Off Runway
Jul 7 2025 // The pilot of a skydiving team encountered mechanical issues that prompted an emergency landing at a small New Jersey airport but could not get the plane stopped at the end of the runway, the company said in a statement...
#7 New Jersey Sues RealPage, Claiming Collusion With Landlords Drives Up Rents
Apr 25 2025 // New Jersey sued the property management software company RealPage, accusing it and 10 of the state’s largest landlords of conspiring to drive up residential rents, violating federal and state antitrust laws and New...
#8 Tesla Sued Over Model S Crash That Killed Three in New Jersey
Jun 26 2025 // Tesla was sued on Monday by the estates of three people killed last September when their 2024 Model S equipped with Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features crashed on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway. The wrongful...
#9 New Jersey Law Targets ‘Near Crime Wave’ of Retail Theft
Apr 8 2025 // New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law setting tougher penalties for retail theft and calling for a dedicated effort to combat organized retail theft. The new law establishes and upgrades certain crimes...
#10 Group Calls New Jersey’s Toxic Waste Dump Settlement ‘Woefully Inadequate’
Dec 20 2024 // Years of toxic waste dumping in a Jersey Shore community where childhood cancer rates rose caused at least $1 billion in damage to natural resources, according to an environmental group trying to overturn a settlement...
#11 Judge Dismisses Charges Against NJ Insurance Exec Norcross
Feb 26 2025 // In a prosecution that local news outlets had called “stunning,” a New Jersey judge has made an equally stunning dismissal of corruption and racketeering charges against insurance executive and Democratic power...
#12 New Jersey, Minnesota Sue Glock Over Firearms With Adaptable Switches
Dec 16 2024 // NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey and Minnesota sued Glock last Thursday, calling on the gunmaker to stop selling firearms that can be adapted with dime-sized switches to fire up to 1,200 rounds a minute. New Jersey...
#13 2 Dead in New Jersey After Floodwaters Carry Away Vehicle During Northeast Downpours
Jul 15 2025 // Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in floodwaters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities said Tuesday. Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, noted the deaths...
#14 Second Teen Charged in New Jersey Forest Fire; New York Hopes Rain Douses Blaze
Nov 21 2024 // A second teenager was charged with intentionally setting a wildfire in a New Jersey suburb of Philadelphia as “significant” rainfall was expected to help douse a stubborn wildfire burning on the New Jersey-New...
#15 New Jersey Group Eyes Insurance Surcharges, Oil Fees to Fund Resiliency Projects
Jul 22 2024 // A 2% surcharge on property insurance policies, mandatory fees on the oil and gas industries, and holding a public referendum are ways a public-private group formed in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy recommends to pay for...
#16 New Jersey Announces $450 Million PFAS Settlement With 3M Days Before Start of Trial
May 14 2025 // New Jersey officials announced a landmark settlement of up to $450 million with 3M Company to resolve the state’s lawsuits and address damage to the state’s water and other natural resources from dangerous...
#17 Rescue Plan for Bankrupt New Jersey Hospitals Under Threat
Mar 14 2025 // A plan to rescue three troubled New Jersey hospitals from bankruptcy is being challenged by their former owners, who claim mismanagement and an unfair land deal have tainted the reorganization. The bankruptcy-exit plan for...
#18 Update on New Jersey Wildfire: Suspect Charged With Arson
Apr 24 2025 // New Jersey officials announced that a 19-year old man has been charged with arson in connection with the Jones Road wildfire that started on April 22 and has spread throughout the southern Ocean County area. Joseph Kling...
#19 Second Person Charged With Arson in New Jersey Pine Barrens Fire
May 5 2025 // A second person has been charged with arson in the wildfire in New Jersey’s Pine Barrens that has grown into the state’s second-largest fire in nearly two decades. Prosecutors said Friday that a 17-year-old was...
#20 NJ Diocese Will No Longer Oppose Investigation Into Sexual Abuse Allegations
May 9 2025 // The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court for years. It’s not...
