NJ group home residents with disabilities have been isolated too long, advocates say

Thousands of New Jersey residents with disabilities have had little or no chance to step out and have remained homebound since March.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

NJ casinos, sportsbooks absorb 21% decline in revenue since reopening

Their earnings dropped that much even as Atlantic City continued to report healthy growth in online betting and sports wagering.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Powerball winning numbers for Saturday, August 15

The jackpot was an estimated $20 million with a cash option of $16.6 million.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Omoyele Sowore has been held in Nigeria for a year. His NJ family wants him home | Mike Kelly

The continuing legal limbo of a journalist and social activist from Haworth who was arrested in Nigeria leaves his family asking for help.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

No New Jersey governor has faced challenges like Phil Murphy’s. Can he survive?| Stile

The pandemic transcends nearly every part of everyday life in New Jersey, so every decision could have a serious impact on every resident.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Mega Millions winning numbers for Friday, Aug. 14

The jackpot was an estimated $31 million with a cash option of $24.9 million.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

NJ ballot design gives huge advantage to party-backed candidates, paper finds

Progressive activists have argued that New Jersey clerks should redesign ballots to eliminate the county line.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Black and South Asian-American women embrace Joe Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris as VP pick

It’s an announcement many Black and South Asian women were waiting for and they were not disappointed with Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s VP running mate.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Critics have a new argument for why NJ bear hunt should be canceled: the pandemic

A coalition of animal rights activists is asking New Jersey’s environmental commissioner to revoke the state guidelines allowing the hunt.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

NJ OKs census ballot question as workers will visit 56M addresses in the next few months

A group of national organizations, companies and business groups warns that a failure to extend deadlines for the 2020 count is a 10-year mistake.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Mega Millions winning numbers for Tuesday, Aug. 11

The jackpot was an estimated $24 million with a cash option of $19.7 million.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Powerball winning numbers for Wednesday, Aug. 12

The jackpot was an estimated $169 million with a cash option of $140.6 million.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Gov. Murphy announces some schools may open virtually this fall

Reversing course, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Wednesday that certain school districts may begin the year fully remote in the fall.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

NJ school districts will have the option to start fully remote this fall

Gov. Phil Murphy’s announcement spelled out several hurdles for districts that want to delay in-person learning, including explaining why.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Murphy to allow certain NJ school districts to offer all-remote education in the fall

Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce Wednesday that he will allow certain districts to offer an all-remote option this fall.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Census workers to visit 56 million addresses in the next few months

A group of national organizations, companies and business groups warns that a failure to extend deadlines for the 2020 count is a 10-year mistake.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

NJ is pushing to make its police look more like the communities they patrol. Will it work?

Police departments in NJ will have to make a concerted effort to recruit minorities and women if Gov. Murphy signs a bill passed by the state Legislature.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

United worker on layoff list cannot support his family amid pandemic

United Airlines announced it will lay off a third of its workforce, and Jenkins Jose Kolongbo, 36, of Newark, is on that list. Kolongbo sends money to his family in Liberia, but will not be able to support them if he is laid off.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution…

Prosecutors can force defendants to give up cellphone passcodes, NJ Supreme Court rules

The court narrowly sided with prosecutors seeking to force a former Essex County sheriff’s officer to grant access to his phone’s data.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Murphy says Trump’s coronavirus relief won’t help those hit hard by pandemic

President Donald Trump’s executive orders that he says will offer coronavirus relief are getting a thumbs down from Gov. Phil Murphy.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Thousands of North Jersey residents still without power as heat advisory issued for region

The number of outages has dwindled but many still remain.         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

Catholic Church was warned about McCarrick decades ago, yet promotions, honors kept coming

A seminary professor sounded the alarm about McCarrick in the late 1980s. Yet he continued to take seminarians to his shore house and to rise in power         Top Featured Tags: – New Jersey News Press Release Distribution Service

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