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The state’s medical marijuana dispensaries have nearly doubled their dispensing amounts, patients they serve and transactions they’ve processed from the year before, according to a new state report.

In a record-breaking drug bust in Nebraska, state troopers have seized 118 pounds of fentanyl — containing enough lethal doses to kill tens of millions of people.

The threatened migratory shorebird the red knot may finally get a break, after its population fell for years as a major food source, horseshoe crab eggs, declined in the Delaware Bay.

Visitors heading Friday afternoon to the South Jersey shore for the start of Memorial Day weekend are finding traffic delays along different parts of the Garden State Parkway south, transportation officials said Friday.

MORRISTOWN — Hunched over, shackled at the hands and ankles, and walking slowly, the driver of a school bus that collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey highway last week, killing a student and teacher, appeared in court…

VINELAND — A Salem County woman was arrested and charged with a DWI after being involved in a three-car crash this week and leaving the scene, authorities said.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — Responding to the recent school shootings across the country, local sixth-graders worked with high school students this week to learn how a bill becomes a law and write letters asking Congress to take action.

The state will award $10 million in grants to local projects that improve water quality in the Barnegat Bay watershed, with a special focus on addressing runoff from streets and lawns.

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A jury has decided Samsung must pay Apple $539 million in damages for illegally copying some of the iPhone's features to lure people into buying its competing products.

ATLANTIC CITY — South Jersey Gas led a tour of its new headquarters in the city Thursday, showing the progress for community leaders, elected officials, project partners and employees.