Bob’s Stores, the beloved store that has clothed families across the northeast for 70 years, will permanently shut its doors at all its locations in the US’s latest retail casualty. The iconic retail giant was “unable to secure the finances needed to maintain operations,” president Dave Barton announced on Monday. Bob’s Stores will liquidate its … Read more
Summer air travel is expected to soar in the United States. The Transportation Security Administration screened a high of 2.99 million individuals on Sunday, June 23 — exceeding a record set just weeks earlier on May 24 — and the TSA is forecasting a record-setting July 4 holiday period. Over three million flyers are forecast … Read more
Since the pandemic, Joshua Pollack’s New York-inspired restaurant group “has really changed how we think about growth,” he said. After he closed Rosenberg’s Bagels in Boulder in October 2022, a little over a year after opening, Pollack was hesitant to take another risk. “At some point, we will open more Rosenberg’s, pizza places and maybe … Read more
Prosecutors on Thursday showed jurors at Sen. Bob Menendez’s trial multiple instances when he researched the value of gold as he tried to help a New Jersey businessman who authorities say bribed him with gold and cash. The evidence about the New Jersey Democrat’s online searches was prominently displayed to a New York jury as … Read more
Prosecutors at the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez used the testimony of his former campaign manager on Tuesday to try to link alleged bribes of the Democrat to the appointment of New Jersey’s top prosecutor three years ago. Michael Soliman, a former top Menendez political adviser, testified immediately after New Jersey’s U.S. attorney, Philip Sellinger, … Read more
Businessman tells jurors he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez in 2019 Businessman tells jurors he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez in 2019 02:18 Washington — A New Jersey businessman who says he bribed Sen. Bob Menendez by buying his wife a Mercedes-Benz convertible for the purpose of disrupting two criminal investigations will continue to be cross-examined Tuesday … Read more
New Jersey senator Bob Menendez is currently on trial for corruption, having been accused by federal prosecutors of taking part in a global bribery and fraud scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold bars, a Mercedes-Benz for his wife, a meat monopoly, and the government of Qatar, among other things. If convicted, … Read more
Sponsored by Republican congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, the bill was approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in November, and a Senate version of the bill passed that chamber’s foreign relations committee less than four months earlier. Neither has been put to a full chamber vote. Citing the bill’s unanimous passage in the … Read more
Wang was born and raised in New Jersey. Her Wuhan-born mother and her Shanghai-born father met when they were both studying at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Wang grew up in suburban New Jersey. Photo: Grace Gui “We would go back to Shanghai every year, which is where I get a lot of my … Read more
Jersey Shore beach season is almost here, and if last year is any indication, it will soon be time to pack the voodoo dolls, whoopie cushions, zip ties and denture powder. Those were just a few of the bizarre items plucked from the sands of New Jersey’s beaches last year by volunteers with the Clean … Read more
