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TRENTON -- The amount withdrawn from workers’ paychecks to support paid family leave insurance will be set each year by the state labor commissioner based on the actual cost of the program, under legislation the Senate approved. Sen. Stephen Sweeney...

TRENTON -- The Senate approved a bill providing better reimbursement for the 60 family planning clinics operating in New Jersey that serve low-income and uninsured women. The legislation would transfer $149,000 from the state Health and Senior Services Department to...

TRENTON -- The Senate gave final approval today to amending a controversial law limiting handgun purchases to one every 30 days. One bill (S-3104) would allow need-based exemptions to the one-handgun-a-month requirement, allowing people who want to buy multiple handguns...

Sussex County will close its juvenile detention center at the end of the month and send its remaining incarcerated youths to Morris County’s juvenile lockup, officials said this week. The two counties worked out a preliminary plan for such a...

John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerPresident Barack Obama at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel in this file photo. President Obama gave an early Christmas present to New Jersey’s health care community this week in the form of more than $20 million...

Courtesy of ICAPFormer President Bill Clinton signs autographs during a fundraising event yesterday at the ICAP offices in Downtown Jersey City.The charity event that drew former President Bill Clinton, Jon Bon Jovi, golfing great Jack Nicklaus and racing star Danica...

ROXBURY -- The saga of the bricks is coming to a close at a Roxbury rail yard where a private company has pledged to remove the remains of an estimated 2 million bricks by the end of the year from...

NEWARK -- The head of the Federal Aviation Administration admitted to U.S. senators today that his agency mishandled the case of an air traffic controller who was booted from the control tower after raising concerns about dangerous runways at Newark...

TRENTON -- A resolution intended to prevent witness tampering passed the Senate today but with an amendment limiting the types of cases where it can be applied. The new rule would allow witnesses to submit statements as evidence when they...

TRENTON -- The Assembly speaker says he has not set a hearing date for the state’s gay marriage bill, and one group supporting the legislation today apologized for the after-hours picketing of a lawmaker. The legislation landed in the Assembly...

Legislation applies to franchise owners with 20 or more locations nationally

Courtesy of Department of CorrectionsLarry LangforddavisELIZABETH -- A convicted felon from Hillside was found guilty in federal court in Trenton today of illegally possessing a handgun given to him by a deputy United States marshal. Larry Langforddavis was arrested outside...

Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-LedgerFormer Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt, in this July file photo, was indicted today as part of the FBI corruption bust from the summer. A former assemblyman from Ocean County and a one-time Jersey City council candidate were indicted...

NEW YORK -- A former attorney from New Jersey pleaded guilty today to securities fraud, admitting a role in a $53 million insider trading case already brought against 20 others, including one of America's richest men.

N.J. Health department study find 'significantly elevated' rates of illness, but stops short of directly blaming plant

LINDEN -- A fire early this morning at the Volkswagen dealership on East Elizabeth Avenue was described as suspicious by police and is still under investigation. The fire was reported at around 2:30 a.m., and smoke was billowing out of...

UNION TOWNSHIP -- A 20-year-old Newark man, identified as the main suspect in last week’s murder of a Union Township deli manager, surrendered to authorities this week. Daivon K. Brinson has been charged with the Nov. 30 stabbing death of...

SAYREVILLE -- Two men face charges of breaking into the home of an 86-year-old borough man last month, where they attacked and robbed the resident. Nicholas Sas, 30, and Dean Nicholaou, 32, both of Sayreville, were each charged with robbery,...

NEW YORK -- With the notable exception of gay marriage, Gov.-elect Chris Christie and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg found common ground today as the two men met for the first time. Christie said he shares the mayor's approach to...