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In his song “Jersey Girl,” Tom Waits famously sang, “Down on the shore everything’s all right/ You with your baby on a Saturday night.”But when the Jersey Shore reopens for Memorial Day weekend with the coronavirus still stalking the state and the rest of the land, not everything will be as “all right” as it…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A handful of New Jersey pastors say they are reopening in defiance of Gov. Phil Murphy's stay-at-home orders to stop the spread of the coronavirus, because of their religious convictions and constitutional rights.Charles Clark Jr., co-pastor of Solid Rock Baptist Church in…

A New Jersey fitness enthusiast has been arrested after he went to work out at a gym that opened in defiance of the state's stay-at-home order.The gym goer, who has not been named, was pictured in handcuffs and being taken into custody outside Atilis Gym in Bellmawr Tuesday, while the facility's co-owners Ian Smith and Frank…

A gym in New Jersey opened its doors for the second day in a row on Tuesday after attracting attention from state and local authorities for defying restrictions on nonessential businesses.Gym members lined up several hours before 8 a.m. Tuesday outside Atilis gym in Camden County before local authorities showed up shortly after 10 a.m., requesting…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy joined "The Story with Martha MacCallum" Thursday to discuss his decision to reopen the state's beaches, as well as his administration's ongoing coronavirus response."We're going to try to limit, intelligently, capacities and [enforce] social distancing [on beaches], but we'll leave…