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A 43-year-old man admitted he shipped more than 220 pounds of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia and New Jersey over a span of more than a year using the United States Postal Service’s overnight mail service. Iran Soler, of Philadelphia, faces at…

DEAR ANNIE: I have been with my girlfriend for 2 1/2 years now. She just lost her middle son to a drug overdose exactly one month ago tomorrow. She is really struggling with this. He was her best friend and, out of all her kids, the one most similar to…

Hundreds of comments filled a Bergen County police department’s Facebook page last week, all welcoming the newest officer— Phoenyx, a 9-week-old bloodhound that will be trained to track down missing people. Community members were saddened by the loss o…

Libby Maurer says she should have known better. A scammer tricked the 82-year-old woman into believing that her grandson was in jail and needed $8,000 in bail money. It was the perfect “grandma scam.” In this ruse, hucksters play on emotion by imperson…

It’s been a dozen years since a precocious Jack Skuller of Weehawken released his first single, “Love Is a Drum,” on Hoboken’s Bar-None Records at the ripe old age of 13. “I had a choice, have a bar mitzvah or record a single,” Skuller said at the time…

Mercury Conundrum To curb bad habits and enact good ones, you must be able to determine which is which. Sometimes pleasing people is a virtue, but other times it’s a flaw — and the same goes for exercise, love and vegetables. An approach of open-minde…

Gov.Phil Murphy said Wednesday he was “disgusted” after reading a new investigation detailing allegations of systemic emotional abuse and sexual misconduct in America’s top professional women’s soccer league, including accusations against a coach who o…

New Jersey on Wednesday reported another 1,526 confirmed COVID-19 cases and seven confirmed deaths as the rate of transmission has seen a dramatic decrease since last week. The statewide rate of transmission was .98 on Wednesday, down from 1.16 on Thur…

Personal fragrance brand Amouage and home fragrance maker Dr. Vranjes Firenze will open their first-ever U.S. boutiques at American Dream. Both will open flagship locations in the luxury wing, The Avenue, in the “coming months,” according to an announc…

Suspicious envelopes that featured anti-government rhetoric were left at multiple locations in Jersey City Wednesday morning, forcing the evacuation of City Hall and at two mostly empty school buildings, school district officials and witnesses said. Th…