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Wildfire breaks out in 2 NJ counties; over 100 structures threatened
White smoke could be seen rising into the dry air as a wildfire burned in Burlington and Camden counties in New Jersey Thursday. Nearby homes were evacuated.
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New Jersey to allow power plant hotly fought by Newark residents
For nearly four years, residents of Newark’s Ironbound section, a gritty, industrial neighborhood near an airport and surrounded by train tracks and many smelly sources of air pollution, had hoped an environmental justice law aimed at protecting communities like theirs would block construction of yet another gas-fired power plant. On Thursday, those hopes were crushed when New Jersey allowed...
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Mohegan tribe to end management of Atlantic City's Resorts casino at year's end
The Mohegan tribe will end its management of Atlantic City’s Resorts casino at the end of this year, both parties said Monday. The move will conclude an agreement the tribe’s gambling arm, Mohegan Gaming Advisors, made with Resorts in 2012 six months after the casino’s co-owner, veteran gambling executive Dennis Gomes, died. Gomes’ death left Resorts without crucial experience...
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Hose kink in smoky darkness disoriented firefighter in Newark cargo ship fire that killed 2
A kink in a fire hose stretched out in the smoky darkness of a cargo ship fire disoriented a New Jersey fire captain as he tried to follow the hose back to safety, separating him from two other firefighters who later died amid the blaze, the captain testified Tuesday.
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Investigative hearings open into cargo ship fire that killed 2 New Jersey firefighters
Federal investigators began several days of hearings Wednesday into a dockside cargo ship fire that killed two New Jersey firefighters last summer at one of the busiest U.S. seaports. The Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the cause of the July 5 blaze in which the Italian-owned Grande Costa d’Avorio caught fire in Port Newark....
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With no supermarket for residents of Atlantic City, state and hospitals create mobile groceries
In this seaside resort, where $5 billion worth of in-person and online gambling gets done each year, there still is not a supermarket. People who live in Atlantic City must either drive off the island to a mainland store, take public transportation — whose cost eats away at the amount left for food — or shop in pricey, poorly stocked…
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New Jersey casinos, track forfeit $77K in money won by prohibited gamblers, many of them underage
Five Atlantic City casinos and a horse racing track are forfeiting over $77,000 worth of money won by underage gamblers or those who had placed themselves on a list to be excluded from gambling activities. New Jersey gambling regulators also fined DraftKings, the online sportsbook and casino platform, $7,500 for similar violations, and online gambling company Rush Street Interactive $2,000…
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Families say faulty vehicle caused cargo ship fire that killed 2 Newark firefighters
The families of two New Jersey firefighters who were killed battling a July blaze inside a cargo ship said Friday a malfunctioning vehicle being used to load cargo onto the ship caused the fire. Relatives of Newark firefighters Captains Augusto “Augie” Acabou and Wayne “Bear” Brooks Jr. held a news conference outside the firehouse where the two had worked, saying litigation...
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Gilgo Beach and Atlantic City sex worker killings are unrelated, officials say
A New Jersey prosecutor says the murders of several sex workers on Long Island do not appear to be related to the unsolved killings of four sex workers near Atlantic City in 2006.
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Offshore wind foes in New Jersey gathering force legally and politically
Opponents of offshore wind energy projects in New Jersey are gathering force legally and politically as they seek to snuff out the nascent industry. Within the last week, three residents groups sued New Jersey over a key approval of its first planned wind farm; the research arm of Congress agreed to investigate the impact of offshore wind on the environment…
