WEST TRENTON, New Jersey, Sept. 7 -- The Delaware River Basin Commission issued the following news release: The Delaware River Basin Commission will receive a grant from the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund to support its water quality programs, including work to monitor emerging contaminants, model climate change impacts on fish habitat and further study how bacteria concentrations affect recreational uses of and access to urban stretches of the Delaware River. DRBC staff joined U.S. Sena  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded an investigation into whether New Jersey subjected residents of two veterans' homes to conditions that violate the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution. The department found reasonable cause to believe the residents of the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Homes at Menlo Park and Paramus face unreasonable harm and risk due  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 -- The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. issued the following news release on Sept. 7, 2023: * * * IBT Local 863 Plan Averts Insolvency and Reduction of Benefits Through Receipt of Special Financial Assistance * * * The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) announced today that it has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance (SFA) Program by the Local Union No. 863 I.B. of T. Pension Plan (IBT Local 863 Plan). The plan, based in Mountainsi  more

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, New Jersey, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: By Senior Airman Matt Porter, 87th Air Base Wing The U.S. Army Reserve's 78th Training Division recently conducted 'The Warrior Exercise' at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. The WAREX aims to serve as a platform for units to train and prepare capable, lethal, and combat-ready forces in collective tasks aligned with their respective Commander's training objectives. Thr  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on Sept. 8, 2023: A New Jersey man was sentenced in the District of Columbia today on five offenses, including a felony, committed during the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Patrick Alonzo Stedman,  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Coast Guard issued the following news: By Cmdr. William A. McKinstry, U.S. Coast Guard Eulace Peacock was born in Dothan, Alabama, on Aug. 27, 1914. As with many African Americans of that era, his family moved north to New Jersey when Peacock was a child in search of better employment opportunities and a better quality of life. In June of 1932, it was as a student athlete in Union, New Jersey, that Peacock began to show the athlet  more