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In her U.S. Senate bid, New Jersey first lady Tammy Murphy has tapped a pot of campaign cash from contractors and lobbyists who do business with the state government led by Gov. Phil Murphy, an NJ Advance Media analysis has found.

Though a newcomer as a candidate, Tammy Murphy is an experienced fundraiser from the six years her husband has spent as the state’s chief executive.

That prowess has continued with her own race, and she reported raising $3.2 million by the end of 2023 despite throwing her hat into the ring only weeks before. Of her war chest, more than $235,000 came from contractors and lobbyists ...

Christmas is a time of joy and hope, a season to give love and uplift the spirits of our fellow travelers in life. Well, at least it is for most people in the world not named Donald Trump. How despicable, depressing, and depraved is it to read another unhinged seasonal greeting from our former president whose Christmas wish to anyone who is not his supporter and who does not genuflect at the altar of his degenerate mind is, “May they rot in hell.” Christmas is also a time for Christians to beat the New Year’s rush and resolve to make the world a better place by asking themselves the old but st...

Chris Christie can’t admit it, but he’s too smart to think he has any chance to win the Republican nomination. His time passed in 2012, back when the adults ran the show. He might not even qualify for the next debate. So why is he running? Why is he camping out in New Hampshire, where the snow is already piling up deep, and spending endless hours begging for money? And why is he giving the Jersey salute to the growing chorus of GOP critics who want him to drop out? Because his higher purpose is to stop Donald Trump from becoming president. And he just might succeed if he can convince even 5 pe...

A man accused of fatally shooting a 30-year-old woman early Thanksgiving morning in Elizabeth, New Jersey was arrested Friday, investigators said. Gerard Manning, 30, of Elizabeth, was charged with murder, endangering the welfare of a child and weapons-related offenses, according to a news release from the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. Authorities said Victoria Myers, also of Elizabeth was found dead at Mravlag Manor, a public housing complex in the city. Shortly after Myers body was found, Manning was quickly identified as a suspect, officials said. The relationship between Myers and Manning was uncl...

More than six months after she was reported missing, a Morris County teacher has been found dead of an apparent suicide, investigators announced Wednesday. Human remains were located on Nov. 19 in a wooded area off of Howard Boulevard and Route 80 in Roxbury Township, thanks to help of K9 tracking team that has been searching for Lara Emanuele, 46, a teacher at Alexander Hamilton Elementary School in Morristown, according to a statement from the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. She was reported missing on June 7 after she had not returned home from work, authorities have said. The Morris Cou...

A Canadian importer in Quebec, Canada, is recalling about 11,000 pounds of ham due to its lack of re-inspection in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).)

Just days after the massive onion recall, yet another dinner staple is being recalled. Federal regulators discovered the problem during a routine inspection of imported products, and they found that the ham products had not been presented for re-inspection in front of U.S. officials.

No illnesses have been reported as a result of consuming these products, according to the FSIS.)

A Toms River man who admitted to pushing a police officer outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 will spend the next 18 months in prison, well below what attorneys suggested he serve behind bars. Salvatore Vassallo, 60, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting, resisting or impeding a police officer, in federal court in Washington, D.C. Federal sentencing guidelines for his case call for 24 to 30 months, and a federal prosecutor argued he get 27 months. His own lawyer suggested 24 months behind bars. Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday also sentenced Vassallo to 36 months of supervised release ...

Union NJ Transit locomotive engineers and trainmen voted Thursday to strike, an action that union officials assured riders wouldn’t happen until federal mediation and negotiation requirements are exhausted. Roughly 81% of the 494 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen returned ballots, and of those, almost all were in favor of a future strike against NJ Transit if negotiations fail to produce a new contract for its members, BLE&T officials said. Of 399 ballots returned, 397 were cast for strike authorization and two were ruled invalid. Union officials reiterated earlie...