New Jersey

The governors of New York and New Jersey are facing ongoing vaccine supply limitations in their states that are forcing some counties to delay appointments or halt bookings entirely, while local cases of the more contagious UK strain rise. The tri-state area’s confirmed UK variant case count is now up to 31 after New Jersey’s health commissioner announced the...

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) announced she has tested positive for the coronavirus and believes she was exposed during protective isolation during the deadly U.S. Capitol attacks. The 75-year-old lawmaker and cancer survivor joined LX News to talk about why she thinks the vaccine saved her life, her experience during the riot, and her hopes for brighter days.

Federal officials charged a man in New Jersey with security clearance at Naval Weapons Station Earle for his alleged participation in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

An auction house seeking bids to blow up a former casino once owned by President Donald Trump has canceled the effort after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from billionaire Carl Icahn

New York City has moved closer to a cutoff point in its vaccination rollout as multiple hospitals told patients who booked appointments for their first dose that there were no more vaccines, for now. The mayor had warned days ago the city would run out of doses at some point next week without a “major” new infusion. Bill de Blasio…

More than 7 million New Yorkers can now register to get their first doses at a growing number of COVID-19 vaccination hubs across the city and state, but if you’re one of the eligible people you’ll likely find yourself waiting quite a while. Getting an appointment could take 14 weeks or longer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says. The state’s weekly...

Two women in New Jersey have been charged with illegally serving alcohol at two large parties over the weekend at a warehouse that had nearly 200 people inside at one point. Newark’s Department of Public Safety on Sunday announced that 23-year-old Rosa Mainato and 27-year-old Fanny Camas of Irvington allegedly served alcohol without a liquor license to people on Saturday…

Rep. Andy Kim was walking amid the mess shortly after a long, harrowing day at the Capitol when he noticed police officers putting pizza boxes in trash bags, so he asked for one, too, and began cleaning up

Coronavirus hospitalizations have climbed to nearly 8,000 in New York for the first time since May 7 and Gov. Andrew Cuomo reported a new single-day high in cases Wednesday, both threats to the healthcare system with the full effect of the feared holiday “surge upon surge” still yet to play out. At the same time, two new, more contagious viral…

Joe Louis Clark, whose toughness and dedication to the students at a troubled high school in New Jersey landed him on the cover of TIME magazine and inspired the 1989 movie “Lean on Me,” has died at the age of 89, his family said

Responses to the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality dominated legislative sessions in 2020 and led to many new laws that will take effect in the new year

A New Jersey man sued police and prosecutors, claiming he was wrongly arrested and jailed after facial recognition software mistakenly linked him to a hotel theft, NBC News reported. Nijeer Parks, 33, a Black man from Paterson, said his grandmother told him on Jan. 30, 2019, that an arrest warrant had been issued for him, according to the civil lawsuit…

A 3-year-old boy in New Jersey has been hospitalized after he ingested marijuana edibles left inside the home by his mother’s friend, according to prosecutors. The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office on Monday announced that the boy’s mother, Enjoli Camacho and a friend who came to visit them on Christmas, Darnell Jefferson, have been arrested and charged with endangering the...

A New Jersey beach is the final resting place for a 15-ton whale whose lifeless body washed ashore on Christmas day. State and local officials used heavy equipment to bury the 31-foot male humpback whale on a beach Monday morning. The whale was frozen solid and could not be cut into pieces for removal, as is commonly done in other…

Two women who served alcohol to over 200 people at an illegal “makeshift bar” in New Jersey were arrested over the weekend, according to authorities. Newark’s Department of Public Safety on Sunday said 26-year-old Denisse Tinizaray and 28-year-old Katherine Tinizaray were unable to provide paperwork that proved they had a license to sell alcohol at a warehouse on Libella Court…

New Jersey, Connecticut, Hawaii and Iowa filed a brief in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine the ability to tax nonresidents’ income.

New York and New Jersey have declined to release detailed breakdowns of their spending on personal protective gear during the first frenzied months of the coronavirus outbreak

Vaccine shipments bound for New Jersey from Pfizer and Moderna — the latter which was granted emergency use authorization by the FDA on Friday — have been reduced by an estimated 20 percent, Gov. Phil Murphy said at a transit briefing on Friday. “We’re still trying to get to the bottom of what we understand will be 20 percent reduction…

Nearly 10,000 customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were without power as of Thursday morning after a winter storm moved through the region overnight.

A reputed Mafia figure pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he conspired to assault the now-husband of former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo. John Perna, 43, of Cedar Grove, admitted planning and carrying out the July 2015 attack during a videoconference in federal court. Perna and Dina Manzo’s ex-husband Thomas Manzo were charged with the assault earlier this…