On an average day, New Jersey subsidizes the care of 21,820 foster and adopted special needs children, according to the Department of Treasury. For foster ...

Veterans Day was initially created to commemorate the service of World War I vets on the anniversary of that war’s armistice. While there are few, ...

New Jersey is justifiably proud of its scientific heritage, which stretches from Edison's inventions and Sarnoff's visionary work with radio and television to Bell Labs ...

A high school diploma has become the bare minimum expected by employers these days, but in 2008-2009, 8,180 New Jersey students didn't stay the course. ...

Diversity has become the rule rather than the exception in New Jersey. Of the state's more than 8 million residents, 27 percent -- or 2,238,755 ...

Between June 2007 and June 2008, 131,141 women between the ages of 15 to 50 gave birth in New Jersey, according to the United States ...

In an unusual way to settle a case for air pollution violations, the Sunoco Eagle Point refinery antied up $295,160 to build a 46-kilowatt solar ...

Nonprofits are big business in New Jersey. There were 31,503 501(c)(3) entities in the Garden State in 2009, according to the Center for Non-Profits, North ...

Pot and prescription drugs are on the upswing and cocaine use is down, according to the recently released state Department of Education report on violence, ...

According to the New Jersey Department of Education, weapons incidents in public schools declined 15 percent in 2008 - 2009 over the year before, reflecting ...