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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie released a statement following his recovery from COVID-19 Thursday. “I was wrong to not wear a mask at the Amy Coney Barrett announcement and I was wrong not to wear a mask at my multiple debate prep sessions with the President and the rest of the team,” Christie said.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was released from a Morristown hospital Saturday one week after he was admitted for experiencing symptoms related to his coronavirus diagnosis. Christie made the announcement on Twitter, following his seventh night at the hospital. He thanked health care workers and said he’d share more details in the coming week. “I am happy to...

Two sisters, an 11-year-old friend and one adult died in a massive New Jersey fire that may have started inside a soda machine in a store where they were shopping and spread, the mayor of Elizabeth said Tuesday.

No one should have come in person last week to President Donald Trump’s fundraiser at his Bedminster golf club because of the risk of COVID-19 infection, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. White House officials acknowledged last week they knew of the president’s exposure risk before he traveled to the Garden State for Thursday’s event but allowed it...

Over 200 people attended President Trump’s Thursday evening fundraiser in Bedminster, New Jersey hours before he tested positive for the coronavirus, state health officials revealed Sunday. The New Jersey State Department of Health says the White House supplied state officials with a list of at least 206 people who were in attendance at the indoor fundraiser. “DOH has reached out…

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was admitted to a Morristown hospital Saturday after experiencing symptoms of fever and body aches related to the coronavirus, NBC News confirmed Saturday. “In consultation with my doctors, I checked myself into Morristown Medical Center this afternoon. While I am feeling good and only have mild symptoms, due to my history of asthma we…

The White House learned of Hope Hicks’ positive coronavirus test — and exposure to the virus by President Donald Trump and others — before Trump arrived in New Jersey for an indoor fundraiser on Thursday, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said, but allowed the event to go forward anyway. Hours after the fundraiser at Trump’s Bedminster golf club,…

One New Jersey county is taking steps to avoid scenes of chaos that they fear could come with this year’s November election. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is putting together a civil unrest team ahead of Election Day, with 30 officers to defuse potentially violent confrontations. “The officers are trained much better in how to defuse a situation, there...

A New Hampshire man who suffered serious spinal injuries when a stage diver landed on his head during a concert in New Jersey has reached a $2 million settlement with the show’s organizer. Jason Kooken, 46, of Exeter, was injured at an April 2017 punk music festival staged at Convention Hall in Asbury Park. His lawsuit claimed that security working…

The Trump administration has opened an investigation into racial bias at Princeton University, saying that the school’s recent acknowledgment of racism on campus amounts to an admission of discrimination

It has been one year since Dulce María Alavez vanished from a South Jersey park, setting off massive manhunts and striking pain in the heart of her family, but even now investigators believe the girl, then 5, is still alive.

A nearly 90-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s was close to losing her home after the nickel and penny she owed in taxes in 2019 accrued to more than $300 in interest

Century 21 Stores — a destination for bargain hunters looking for fat deals on designer dresses and shoes, cosmetics and housewares for nearly 60 years — has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is winding down its business, shutting all 13 stores across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida.

A veteran South Jersey police officer died hours after jumping into a river in an attempt to save a woman’s life Sunday.

When Newark, N.J.-based filmmaker Ayana Stafford-Morris decided to start a pop-up drive-in movie theater, she realized that only a tiny number of the movies available for drive-in venues featured Black directors or casts. So she decided to change that.

A “Black Lives Matter” protest that arose amid threats of vandalism and arrest ended in a peaceful joining together Friday of Atlantic City’s mayor and a community activist who had threatened to paint those words on the seaside gambling resort’s historic Boardwalk

The company building New Jersey’s first offshore wind farm is providing a glimpse into the future — what beachgoers and residents will see when turbines are erected.

Anna Del Priore has always been known as a strong woman and a strong child for that matter. The 107-year-old, soon to be 108, lives in Middletown, NJ, and just recently beat COVID-19. Her story is unique in that she also beat the Spanish Flu as a child during that pandemic in 1918.

Watch New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker’s full address during the fourth night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Footage provided is a mixed feed and is a joint effort by the pool and the DNCC.

There are about 6,000 Cotton-Top tamarins left in the world and the species is considered critically endangered.