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More than 500 friends, family members, former colleagues and admirers paid their last respects to former police chief and director Ernie Williams at Galilee Baptist Church yesterday, recalling his service to the city across five decades and his deep commitment to the community.

TRENTON — New Jersey’s standards for eyewitness testimony in the courtroom is unreliable and can encourage police misconduct, the state Supreme Court said today in ordering a revision of investigative and court practices.

Two days before the deadline for a possible U.S. government default, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached agreement Sunday on a legislative package that would extend the federal debt ceiling while cutting spending and guaranteeing further deficit-reduction steps.

The proposed deal, which still requires congressional approval, brought some immediate relief to global markets closely watching the situation play out and to a nation filled with anger and frustration over partisan political wrangling that threatened further economic harm to an already struggling recovery.

However, there is no guarantee the plan will win enough support to pass both chambers of Congress. Democratic and Republican leaders in both the House and Senate were briefing their caucuses about the agreement on Sunday night or Mo...   Read More >>

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority settled at least seven lawsuits in the last year and a half — amounting to nearly $1 million in payouts to plaintiffs — rather than take its chances on long, costly court battles.

Among them was a $60,000 settlement with a man left with chronic back, hip and leg pain after a fall at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel. In another case, the authority agreed to pay up to $150,000 for the legal fees of a paraplegic who said he had encountered inadequate parking and inaccessible wheelchair ramps and bathrooms at Garden State Parkway rest areas in violatio...   Read More >>

The state must pay thousands of corrections officers back pay for their participation in a pilot program that lasted 10 years beyond its experimental phase, a Superior Court judge says.

If the ruling is allowed to stand, the state will be responsible for millions of dollars in compensation for new corrections officers whom the court said worked under a job title that didn’t officially exist from 1999 to 2009 during a 14-week training period.

The dispute centers on a program the state began in January 1998 establishing the pay and training for newly hired corrections employees. Pr...   Read More >>

New Jersey’s public worker pension and health benefits increases should be revoked for state judges because they unconstitutionally slash their salaries and undermine judicial independence, a state Superior Court judge claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The complaint, filed Thursday by Superior Court Judge Paul DePascale, who sits in Hudson County, is the first legal challenge to the landmark health and benefit law enacted last month. State public employee unions angered by the changes are also vowing to go to court.

The complaint says the law runs counter to the part of the state constitution that says the salaries of the Supreme Court justices and Superior Court judges "shall not be diminished during their term of appointment."

"It diminishes the salary of all justices and judges appointed befo...   Read More >>

An ordinance that would require eateries in Newark to hire armed guards if they want to remain open after 9 p.m. has been vetoed by Mayor Cory Booker.

Booker said the restaurants are only linked to 2 percent of all violent crime in Newark, and the ordinance would leave the city vulnerable to lawsuits and force restaurants to incur extra costs.

"There are many businesses that would be caught up in these extreme costs associated with armed security that never even had these problems in their neighborhoods," Booker said.

The bill targeted restaurants that serve fewer than 20 people, and was proposed in the aftermath of the the shooting death in May of Newark police officer William Johnson in a South Ward fried chicken restaurant.

TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday said he will order state officials to quickly implement New Jersey’s medical marijuana program, a move growers say could allow the drug to be sold to chronically ill patients by the end of the year.

Christie said the state health department should “move forward as expeditiously as possible,” lifting a three-month hold he imposed while waiting for federal law enforcement officials to tell him whether state workers or private growers would be vulnerable to arrest.

“I believe that the need to provide compassionate pain relief to these citizens o...   Read More >>

Four inmates from Middlesex County Jail sat quietly in a courtroom jury box on a recent afternoon, waiting to face the judge. One by one they stood up, rejected the prosecutor’s plea offers and requested trials.

Unable to hide his frustration, Superior Court Judge Bradley Ferencz turned to the criminal case manager and the two looked over his trial calendar.

It was booked solid through October. But these inmates had been languishing in jail and with just six criminal court judges assigned full time to the county, Ferencz was out of options.

"They have to go first,"...   Read More >>