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Slapping Teen, Taking Pay Isn't Child Abuse: Court

Although it's not 'admirable' either, justice writes

(Newser) - A couple of New Jersey parents may have slapped their daughter and taken money from her paycheck to pay the cable bill, but that’s hardly child abuse or neglect, the state Supreme Court ruled yesterday. The child in question, now an adult, was removed from her home in 2008...

Jersey Shore Moving to Italy
 Jersey Shore Moving to Italy 
Jan 25, 2011 4:36 PM CST

Jersey Shore Moving to Italy

Season 4 taking a road trip

(Newser) - Looks like we'll find out if "guido" really is offensive to Italians—MTV has decided to move the cast of Jersey Shore to Italy for the upcoming fourth season, the New York Daily News reports. Maybe sensing that America has had a bit much of the cast, the network...

Chris Christie: Too Fat to Be President?

Size could matter for leading GOP contender

(Newser) - Chris Christie is widely seen as a leading GOP contender for 2012 but some analysts see a hefty obstacle in the way: Chris Christie. America hasn't had an obese president since William Howard Taft a century ago and bias against the overweight could count against the New Jersey governor."...

Gov. Christie Doesn't Regret Disney Trip During Blizzard

He had 'a great five days'

(Newser) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie wouldn’t change a thing about the way he and his state handled the recent East Coast blizzard —including the fact that he was out of the state for five days during it. At his first public event since the storm dumped almost three...

Merry Christmas! Jersey Billboard Takes on God

Atheists battle Catholics in ad war

(Newser) - Just in time for Christmas ... a giant New Jersey billboard is challenging the existence of God. "You know it's a myth," says the atheist ad that appears over the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel, featuring an image of the Magi traveling to a nativity scene. "This season,...

Anti-Facebook Pastor 'Taking Some Time Off'

... After his old threesomes come to light

(Newser) - Perhaps acknowledging that lesson about glass houses and stones, the New Jersey pastor who banned church staff from using Facebook—lest it foment affairs—has stepped down after it was revealed he engaged in regular threesomes 10 years ago. The Rev. Cedric Miller tells the AP he is "taking...

NJ Rep's Top Aide Busted for Soliciting Underage Sex

Rep. Steve Rothman fires chief of staff

(Newser) - Democratic Rep. Steve Rothman's chief of staff has been fired after allegedly trying to solicit sex from an underage girl. Robert Decheine—who was a senior adviser for President Obama's campaign in New Jersey—was one of 11 people caught in a police sting operation and has been charged with...

Bloomberg Plans a Subway to New Jersey

To replace the tunnel Chris Christie called off

(Newser) - Michael Bloomberg is hatching a plan to build a subway tunnel under the Hudson River linking Manhattan to Secaucus, NJ. The plan is designed to replace the long-planned tunnel from New Jersey that Chris Christie killed when he came into office, and according to a secret memorandum obtained by the...

Blackout Halts NFL Game
 Blackout Halts NFL Game 
Nov 15, 2010 1:22 AM CST

Blackout Halts NFL Game

Double power crash occurred at Meadowlands

(Newser) - A double power outage at the Meadowlands sports stadium in New Jersey temporarily halted an NFL game yesterday between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys. The snafu plunged the packed stadium into total darkness, and some players hit the ground, apparently fearing an attack, CNN reports. Investigators are...

New Jersey's 'Safe Surrender' Day Draws 3,901 People

Including 550 not actually in any trouble

(Newser) - New Jersey held a wildly successful Safe Surrender program last week, during which 3,901 people turned themselves in—including 550 people who weren’t actually wanted for anything. “For some people, this seemed to be a way to check: Do I have a warrant or not?” explains a...

Fox Reporter Busted in Sex Assault on Minor

Ground-Zero mosque critic Charles Leaf in Jersey jail

(Newser) - An Emmy award-winning Fox News reporter is in a New Jersey jail after being charged with aggravated sex assault of a minor. Charles Leaf , 41, a married dad of two, has also been charged with endangering the welfare of a child, reports the Record . Details of the crime were not...

Christie Kills Tunnel Plan: NJ's Worst Decision Ever?
Christie Kills Tunnel Plan: NJ's Worst Decision Ever?
Paul Krugman
Oct 7, 2010 7:27 PM CDT

Christie Kills Tunnel Plan: NJ's Worst Decision Ever?

Paul Krugman thinks New Jersey has blown it again

(Newser) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie today killed a two-decade-old plan for a commuter train tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey. He predicted that the project, which the Star-Ledger says would have been the biggest public works project in US history, would have ballooned way beyond the projected $8.7 billion...

Chris Christie Confronts Heckler

New Jersey governor doesn't take any guff at rally

(Newser) - Barney Frank has his way of handling hecklers, and Chris Christie has his. In a video making the rounds, the New Jersey governor gets in the face of a heckler at a Meg Whitman rally in California. "Hey, listen. You know what. You want to yell, yell at me,...

Mark Zuckerberg Giving $100M to Newark Schools

Facebook founder setting up foundation to improve education

(Newser) - Newark's cash-strapped public school system is getting some help from a wealthy friend. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is planning a $100 million donation to improve the system, officials tell the New York Times . Zuckerberg, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Newark Mayor Cory Booker will announce the donation on the...

Judge: Ground Zero Imam Is a Slum Lord

He's ordered to fix dangerous violations in Jersey apartment building

(Newser) - The imam behind the Ground Zero Muslim prayer center has been ordered by a judge to fix decrepit conditions in a New Jersey tenement he owns, which has no hot water, faulty hallway lights, no working fire alarms, and bedbug and cockroach infestations. Union City officials charged Imam Feisal Abdul...

Jersey Shore Disses Tourists, aka FOOTs

Locals aren't into f-ing out of towners, apparently

(Newser) - Shocking: The land that keeps on giving us Snooki has a foul-mouthed message for its tourists: You're a FOOT. That would be "F***ing Out of Towner." It seems that locals, whose economy benefits from the arcade-playing, ice cream-eating visitors who invade its beaches each summer, resent these folks...

NJ Fails Math, Loses Millions in School Funding

Christie office commits costly error on 'Race to the Top' application

(Newser) - New Jersey lost out on hundreds of millions of dollars in federal education funding because of a simple mistake in its application, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. A staffer in Gov. Chris Christie's office filled out a field for budget data that called for a comparison of the 2008 and 2009...

Jersey Fixing Landfill Odors... With Air Freshener

Turns out New Jersey actually does kinda stink

(Newser) - New Jersey insists it doesn’t stink , but at least one city does—and it’s attempting to fix the problem with hundreds of gallons of air freshener. East Brunswick residents have been assaulted for years by aromas wafting from the 200-acre-plus Middlesex County Landfill, where more than 1,000...

Homeless Man Lived in Library for 2 Weeks

Man, 26, helped himself to books, food

(Newser) - A homeless man lived unnoticed in the basement of a New Jersey library for nearly two weeks. Police said a custodian saw Charles Jones Jr. peeking out a basement window of the Ocean Township library on Friday night. They discovered several books in the basement and found the 26-year-old had...

NJ Bans the Word 'Retarded'
 NJ Bans the Word 'Retarded' 
Aug 17, 2010 10:28 AM CDT

NJ Bans the Word 'Retarded'

At least in official state documents

(Newser) - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a law today forbidding state laws or rules to use the term “mentally retarded” to refer to those with intellectual disabilities. “This is making sure each citizen in our state is treated with the respect they deserve,” Christie said. “It’...

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