Over the past 18 months of the health and financial crises stemming from the coronavirus pandemic, stimulus checks have become as much a local story as a national one. There’s certainly a national element to the question of when and whether Americans will get a new stimulus check, which would amount to a fourth wave …
I live in the South, so I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t understand this primal urge that lives within so many people to bash the state of New Jersey. The frequency of this has always surprised me, too. I write a lighthearted post last month, for example, about a map of what …
In light of the strain that the coronavirus pandemic has put on communities across the country, a New Jersey man took it upon himself to operate a free food pantry for anyone in need. 42-year-old Barney Corrigan started giving away food from a cabinet in front of his house, but donations quickly swamped him, leading …
If you end up in a county jail, chances are you’re not having the greatest of days to begin with. Inmates who found themselves behind the bars of the Bergen County jail in New Jersey got a little more than they bargained for this week when a handful of them came down with the mumps. …
Winter driving can be a real pain in northern states, but drivers on New Jersey’s Route 19 had to deal with a very different kind of hazard on Thursday morning. Instead of snow drifts running across the highway, it was a runaway cow that prevented vehicles from moooving along. Drivers did their best to steer …
Christmas came a bit early for commuters cruising along Route 3 in New Jersey on Thursday morning. Skies were cloudy, but instead of snow tumbling onto the pavement, it was cold, hard cash. According to local news reports, a Brinks armored truck crashed on the highway and spilled an untold amount of money. As you …
If you’re looking for colorful sea creatures the first place you’d look probably wouldn’t be anywhere near New Jersey. Hurricane Florence, which recently slammed into the East Coast of the United States, seems to have changed that ever so slightly, and the recent sighting of a “blue button jellyfish” on the shores of Beach Haven, …
An NJ Transit train crashed into the station in Hoboken on Thursday morning, with dozens of people being injured following the accident.
The statewide ban on texting while driving wasn’t enough for one New Jersey town, according to The Huffington Post. After 74 crashes involving pedestrians in 2011, three of which were fatal, Fort Lee, New Jersey passed a new law earlier this year that fines walkers $85 who do not stop prior to texting. “It’s a …
Courts in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware have granted Verizon Communications injunctions against striking union workers who are picketing outside of its corporate offices and retail locations. Specifically, the injunctions are against members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Last week, Verizon filed lawsuits against the Communications Workers of America in New …
