Gov. Philip Murphy warned that the state faces financial “Armageddon” — and could be unable to pay teachers, firefighters and police officers.Many beaches and boardwalks along the Jersey Shore have been closed to limit the spread of the coronavirus.Credit...Ted Shaffrey/Associated PressGov. Philip D. Murphy on Monday sketched out benchmarks New Jersey will have to reach…
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy | Michael Mancuso-Pool/Getty Images New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday outlined four broad goals that need to be achieved before the state can begin to reopen for business, but gave no specific date for when that would happen. However, in announcing his “Road Back” plan during his daily news…
New Jersey got good news and bad news Friday in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.The rate of hospitalizations, critical care patients, ventilator use, and deaths are dropping, state officials said.But the number of cases and deaths rose again, and Gov. Phil Murphy said a number of counties — mostly in South Jersey — “slid…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…