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Dougie Hamilton snapped a third-period tie, Vitek Vanecek made 32 saves and the New Jersey Devils beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 on Thursday night in the season opener for each team. Hamilton beat Ville Husso with a blast from the point at 15:37, helping the Devils pick up where they left off last season when they finished with 112 points. Jack Hughes scored twice in the second period for New Jersey, and Jonas Siegenthaler had three assists.

The judge ruled on a 2018 case brought by Latino Action Network and the NAACP, saying they demonstrated "persistent racial imbalance" in NJ districts.

Oversight of the state-run veterans homes where over 200 residents died during the COVID pandemic should be taken from the military, a report says.

The then-future wife of powerful U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Nadine Menendez, killed a man with her car in December 2018 and was sent from the scene without being charged, according to new details that match an auto “accident” that prosecutors cite in their sweeping federal indictment of the pair as a pivotal motivation for one of the senator's alleged bribes. Richard Koop, 49, was in front of his Bogota, New Jersey, home when he was killed almost instantly around 7:30 p.m. on...

The senator from New Jersey is innocent until he is found guilty, but like the former president, he's already proved himself unworthy of the public's trust.

New Jersey's Supreme Court is expected to consider whether an Atlantic City casino can get payouts from business interruption insurance for losses during the COVID-19 outbreak, potentially providing guidance for policyholders nationwide regarding the scope of coverage for pandemic-related losses. The state's high court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in a case brought by the owners of the Ocean Casino Resort, which had $50 million in business interruption insurance before the...

Governments, organizations and businesses have set ambitious goals to combat climate change. This week, New Jersey has gone into more detail about its climate change goals, including its proposed ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, and a push to “decarbonize” public and private buildings by switching from natural gas to electric heating and appliances. Shawn LaTourette, New Jersey's environmental protection commissioner, hesitates to use the word &#x201...

A change in state policy denies some New Jersey residents earmarked FEMA funds to rebuild, 2 years after Tropical Storm Ida destroyed their homes.

A Virginia man charged with killing a New Jersey pastor had lived with her and her child for a time before returning to their Sayreville home early this year and shooting the charismatic church leader 14 times, prosecutors said at the suspect’s detention hearing Monday. Rashid Ali Bynum, 29, of Portsmouth, was denied bail after pleading not guilty to first-degree murder and weapons charges in the Feb. 1 slaying of Eunice Dwumfour. As the hearing ended, the victim’s mother was detained and ha...

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Known as "America's Greatest Family Resort," this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the East Coast. Residents of Ocean City and surrounding Cape May County, helped by an outside group opposed to renewable energy, are mobilizing to stop Ocean Wind 1, a proposal to build up to 98 wind turbines the size of skyscrapers off the New Jersey coast, which could power half a milli...