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Paterson voter fraud case results in 11 arrests

Accused of tampering with absentee ballots in city council election

Eleven people have been arrested since Tuesday in connection with alleged voter fraud schemes involving the May Paterson city council election, state Attorney General Paula t. Dow announced Wednesday.

These people were arrested Tuesday on charges of second- and third-degree voter fraud and third-degree tampering with public record: ...

Catholics defend Christmas with their own billboard

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

This year's "war on Christmas" has moved to a bigger area: billboards. A Catholic organization in New York has responded to an atheist Christmas billboard message with one of its own on the New York side.

"You know it's real," the latest billboard tells drivers passing the corner of Dyer Avenue and West 31st Street in Manhattan. "This season, celebrate Jesus."

The si...

Study: No cancer risk near Jersey City chromium waste sites

New Jersey health officials checked for oral, esophageal, stomach cancer

A health assessment by the state Department of Health and Department of Environmental Protection has found no evidence that Jersey City residents who lived near any of 126 chromium-contaminated sites from 1979 to 2006 were at increased risk of three types of cancer — oral, esophageal or stomach.

The study, released Wednesday, r...

Thinking of buying a foreclosure bargain in New Jersey?

BY GERALD J. ROBINSON

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Say you're a renter now and want to buy a home. With all the foreclosures on the market and reduced prices, can you get a great bargain now?

There's no doubt that the foreclosure problem is severe for many New Jersey homeowners. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, a record number of New Jersey homeowners with mortgages were either in foreclosure...

Groundwater tests at Oyster Creek show decreasing levels of radioactive tritium

DEP finds chemical has not reached public water supplies

Concentrations of radioactive tritium in the aquifers directly below the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey, Ocean County, have decreased substantially in recent weeks, according to samples of groundwater, state Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin announced Wednesday.

The groundwater remediation system set up to address a t...

American figure skating stars coming to Atlantic City

Evan Lysacek to appear with skaters who have compiled 18 Olympic medals and more than 60 world championships

BY JERRY MILANI

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Champions from the past seven decades will be on the ice when The Caesar's Tribute figure skating exhibition hits Boardwalk Hall Arena in Atlantic City on December 11, featuring American stars from Dick Button (Englewood, N.J.) all the way to 2010 Vancouve...

World Aids Day 2010: The Pope and condoms

BY SUSIE WILSON

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

SEX MATTERS

There is some good news about the pandemic this World AIDS Day. Fewer people are becoming infected with HIV than at the peak of the epidemic, according to Unaids. But we can't be complacent: 2.6 million people became newly infected in 2009, and the epidemic still rages with a vengeance in southern Africa .

Yet a revolution in HIV prevention may be at han...

Bipartisan federal debt commission does its job

BY IRWIN STOOLMACHER

COMMENTARY

Bravo to President Obama's federal debt commission. The Commission, led by former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson and former Clinton Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, has done a good thing. They developed a plan that is creative, controversial and credible in the sense that it would apparently work from a mathematical perspective. By cutting spending by 57% and increasing...

Newark schoolchildren desperately need Gov. Christie to lift state’s school construction ban

BY SHAVAR D. JEFFRIES AND DAVID G. SCIARRA

COMMENTARY

For decades, Newark students have attended school in buildings that are among the oldest, most obsolete and dangerous in New Jersey, if not the nation. Spurred by a ruling in the landmark Abbott v. Burke case, the State of New Jersey in 2002 launched a school construction program to build new or renovate schools in Newark and other urban and middle...

State says 400,000 New Jerseyans will continue to receive unemployment checks

Congress facing deadline to provide federal benefits for 8.5 million jobless Americans

BY TOM HESTER SR.

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Nearly 400,000 jobless New Jerseyans will continue to received unemployment checks even if Congress allows the Wednesday deadline for continuing federal emergency benefits nationally to pass, the state Department of Labor announced Tuesday.

The immediate impact in New Jersey w...