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New Jersey owes the federal government more than $271 million after canceling a rail tunnel connecting the state with New York, according to a debt notice obtained Monday by The Associated Press....

A pastor who said Facebook was a "portal to infidelity" and told married church leaders to delete their accounts or resign once testified that he had a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant....

Authorities are responding to reports of suspicious items on three planes that landed today in Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia, Pennyslvania. Suspicious packages found in at least two locations abroad that were bound for Jewish organizations in the United States "apparently contain explosive material," President Barack Obama said Friday, calling the discovery "a credible threat against our country."

A Rutgers University student apparently committed suicide after an internet broadcast showed him in a sexual encounter, New Jersey authorities said.

Two men pulled up behind Five Guys Burgers and Fries in North Bergen, N.J., last week, hooked a hose to a tank outside the restaurant and began ...

A 19-year-old woman shot early Saturday at an off-campus party near Seton Hall University in New Jersey has died, hospital and police officials said.

Authorities called off a 22-hour rescue mission at a partly collapsed parking garage Saturday after determining that no one had been trapped when a glass canopy attached to a high-rise condominium building fell the day before, a fire official said.

A glass canopy fell off of a high-rise condominium building and onto a parking garage two stories below on Friday morning and partially flattened the structure, authorities said.

Officials are trying to assess the damage and whether anyone was hurt in the collapse, Hackensack Fire Capt. Thomas Salsedo said. Emergency officials are looking into reports that two people may be missing.

Two New Jersey men were arrested at JFK International Airport in an alleged terrorism plot involving an Islamic group in Somalia, NBC News confirmed.

Break out the parkas! The 2014 Super Bowl will be held in New Jersey and it won’t be indoors.  NFL owners have voted to put the championship game in the new $1.6 billion Meadowlands stadium that’s about to become home to the New York Jets and Giants. It does not have a roof and it will be February.