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UpdatedTue, Dec 29, 2020 at 7:29 am ET Replies(139) (Patch photo) Governor Murphy (Edwin J. Torres/ NJ Governor’s Office) NEW JERSEY — The process of legalizing marijuana has hit a roadblock now that the Murphy administration is objecting to legislation that creates the framework for selling the drug in the Garden State in 2021, sources told Patch. Sources confirmed a Politico report that says the Murphy administration is objecting to the legal issues in the long-debated legislation, A-21, that officially legalizes personal use of marijuana, decriminalizes the substance and removes it fro...

UpdatedThu, Dec 31, 2020 at 9:14 am ET Reply Retired Seaside Heights Police Capt. Gerald LaStella also was chief police instructor at the Ocean County Police Academy. (Shutterstock) SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ — Funeral services have been set for Jan. 4 and 5 for retired Seaside Heights Police Capt. Gerald LaStella, who died Christmas morning. The Seaside Heights Police Department said the viewing will be 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Jan. 4 at Ryan Home for Funerals on St. Catherine Boulevard, Toms River, with the funeral at 10 a.m. Jan. 5 at St. Catherine's Roman Catholic Church, Seaside Park. LaStella se...

Reply Police have issued a warrant for a Florida man after he fled a traffic stop, causing multiple car accidents, authorities said. (Shutterstock) HILLSDALE, NJ — Hillsdale Police have issued a warrant for Khalil D. Pass after officials say he eluded arrest after being involved in multiple car thefts, causing two car accidents in the process. According to police, the department received reports from the nearby Tri-Boro dispatch in reference to a man operating a "dark-colored" Ford Explorer with Florida registration. Police said the man had been recently involved with "several thefts from m...

(see the hour-by-hour details below). The National Weather Service has now issued a hazardous weather outlook, saying heavy rain and strong 70-mph winds could cause problems on local roads and highways and power outages. Some snow is possible, but not likely to stick. Subscribe Col. Pat Callahan, superintendent of State Police, said: "It is probably a good bet that people are going to wake up on Christmas with no power." Callahan said the wind is a "great concern," and he suggested that New Jerseyans should make sure they have generators "ready to go." Subscribe He also said the quick meltin...

UpdatedThu, Dec 24, 2020 at 10:13 am ET Replies(82) (Jose F. Moreno, Staff Photographer / The Philadelphia Inquirer) NEW JERSEY — As businesses continue to struggle and many find it hard to make ends meet, Gov. Phil Murphy is set to sign a massive, $14 billion corporate tax-break bill into law that's supposed to give New Jersey a big boost amid the COVID-19 crisis. The more than 100-page New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 — introduced last Wednesday — received criticism for its limited public testimony. But Murphy defended the proposal in Monday's coronavirus news conference, sayi...