Exxon Mobil will pay $225 million for contamination at refineries and other polluted sites across the state under a settlement agreement state officials are calling “historic.” The deal between the state and the Texas oil giant ends more than a decade of litigation over the environmental damage at two refineries, known as Bayway and Bayonne, which… Read the rest of this entry »

TRENTON — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said he was “not going anywhere” after news of his impending federal corruption indictment leaked. And, according to a new poll, New Jersey residents are fine with that — for now. A Rutgers-Eagleton poll of 433 New Jersey residents, released Tuesday morning, found 58 percent said Menendez (D-N.J.) should be… Read the rest of this entry »

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie’s town hall meetings are expanding beyond New Jersey and heading to the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state of New Hampshire – and likely beyond. The governor, who’s been hosting weekly town hall meetings in the Garden State, is scheduled to speak with New Hampshire voters on April 15 on what’s being called… Read the rest of this entry »

Alain Chahine lost his job two years ago. Since then, he said, he has completed more than 600 applications and sent 200 messages to his network looking for leads. Those efforts produced 18 interviews in 2013, 35 more in 2014 and 12 so far this year, Chahine said. But the number of full-time job offers to… Read the rest of this entry »

JERSEY CITY — Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and Bernard Kerik, a former New York police commissioner, appeared at a prisoner re-entry conference at Saint Peter’s University this afternoon to speak out about the horrors they experienced while incarcerated in federal prison. The two men called on officials to reform the criminal justice system, saying there… Read the rest of this entry »

Dr. Salomon Melgen, left and Senator Robert Menendez

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Federal prosecutors face many hurdles in making their corruption case against New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez, indicted Wednesday on charges of accepting close to $1 million in gifts and campaign contributions to benefit a wealthy Florida donor and friend, said several white-collar defense experts. The details in the indictment will likely raise the… Read the rest of this entry »

When Chris Christie privatized New Jersey’s lottery two years ago, he said its new overseers would “modernize and maximize” the games. Instead, a lottery once ranked among the nation’s top performers is now lagging for the second straight year, trailing its state income targets by $64 million seven months into the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, the… Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — Following his indictment Wednesday on federal corruption charges, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said he would temporarily step aside as the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Menendez (D-N.J.), who had been chairman of the committee until Republicans took control of the Senate in January, made the announcement after talking to Senate Democratic… Read the rest of this entry »