LYNDHURST, New Jersey, July 8 -- Barnes and Noble, a retailer of content, digital media and educational products, issued the following news release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest retail bookseller, today announced the return of its customer-favorite Vinyl Weekend event taking place Friday, July 12 through Sunday, July 14 at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide and online at BN.com/Vinyl. This year, Barnes & Noble is celebrating Vinyl Weekend with a wide selection of exclusiv  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 11 -- NICE, an enterprise software solutions provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Upgrade Provides Added Precision And Clarity Through Features Such As Automated Text Analytics And Custom Metrics * * * NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) today announced Colt Technology Services, a world-class global provider of high bandwidth, on-demand and agile connectivity solutions, has renewed and upgraded their relationship with NICE Satmetrix. Seeking additional depth of insi  more

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey, July 11 -- Covanta Holding, a provider of sustainable waste management and renewable energy solutions, issued the following news release: Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE:CVA) ("Covanta" or the "Company") will host a conference call at 8:30 AM (Eastern) on Friday, July 26, 2019 to discuss its second quarter results. A press release reporting Covanta's second quarter results will be issued after the market closes on July 25, 2019 and will also be available in the Invest  more

LAKEWOOD, New Jersey, July 11 -- Gaming Laboratories International, a provider of quality land-based, lottery and iGaming testing and assessment services, issued the following news release: Gaming Laboratories International (GLI(R)) will present 30 years of world-class iGaming testing and certification, standards consultancy, and thought leadership at its stand P4 during iGB L!ve at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16-19 July 2019. GLI's experienced team   more

WILMINGTON, North Carolina, July 10 -- General Electric, a manufacturer of appliances, lighting, power systems and other products, issued the following news release: GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) announced today that it has been awarded a contract by Comprehensive Decommissioning International, LLC (CDI) to decommission reactor internals and the reactor pressure vessel at the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, New Jersey. Employing cutting edge technology, GEH will di  more

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, July 10 -- TD Bank, a financial services company, issued the following news release: Nearly half of homeowners (48 percent) plan to renovate their homes in the next two years, and a third of those homeowners expect to spend more than $50,000 on their renovations, according to recent research from TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank(R). TD Bank's Home Equity Trend Watch is a national survey of more than 1,800 homeowners which examines trends in home equity usage an  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 11 -- Holland and Knight, a law firm, issued the following news release: Holland & Knight represented Radiology Partners, the largest physician-led and physician-owned radiology practice in the United States, in its acquisition of New Jersey-based Radiology Affiliates Imaging, Inc. (RAI). This is Radiology Partners' first partnership in the Northeast. The deal was announced on June 27. RAI is a 60-physician, sub-specialized radiology practice that has served Ne  more

RARITAN, New Jersey, July 12 -- Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, issued the following news release: * * * - Submission Inclusive of Data From Phase 3 COLUMBA Study Presented at ASCO * * * The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today the submission of a Biologics License Application (BLA) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) seeking approval of a new subcutaneous (SC) formulation of DARZALEX(R) (daratumumab), an intr  more

RARITAN, New Jersey, July 8 -- Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson, issued the following news release: * * * - EINSTEIN-Jr Is The Largest Pediatric Trial Conducted For The Treatment of Venous Thromboembolism And The First to Evaluate a Direct Oral Anticoagulant in This Population * * * The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced today new results from the Phase 3 EINSTEIN-Jr study, showing pediatric patients (aged birth to 17 years) t  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 8 -- The New Jersey Assembly Democrats issued the following news: Assemblymen John Armato and Vince Mazzeo (both D-Atlantic) recently introduced a measure to urge Governor Phil Murphy and New Jersey Transit to dedicate a portion of the $457.5 million in funding allocated to NJT in the State budget to conduct a marketing and investment campaign for the Atlantic City Rail Line. Armato and Mazzeo released the following statement: "After years of underfunding and neglect  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 8 -- The New Jersey Assembly Democrats issued the following news: Legislation to assist first responders who voluntarily participated in 9/11 rescue and recovery efforts was signed into law Monday by Governor Phil Murphy. The new law, sponsored by Assemblymen James Kennedy, Jamel Holley and Andrew Zwicker, expands eligibility for accidental disability allowance to include members or retirees of the Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS) and the State Police Ret  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 11 -- New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal issued the following news release: * * * Company Failed to Fix Known Security Problems that Exposed Personal Data to Hacker; Settlement Requires Premera to Strengthen Data Security, Report to States Annually * * * Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced today that New Jersey and 29 other states have reached a settlement with health insurer Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield to resolve allegations that Premera's inad  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 11 -- New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal issued the following news release: * * * - Acting Prosecutor Jennifer Davenport to Return to Full-Time Role as First Assistant AG * * * Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal today announced the appointment of Lyndsay V. Ruotolo as Acting Union County Prosecutor. Ruotolo, who most recently served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, has extensive experience in prosecuting violent crime and drug o  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 11 -- The New Jersey Assembly Democrats issued the following news: Inspired by C-SPAN and other public broadcasting tools, the Office of Legislative Services recently unveiled an upgraded live stream player on the New Jersey Legislature's website, called "NJ Now in Session: Legislature Live." Cameras were installed in two large committee rooms in the State House used by the Senate and Assembly for legislative hearings and committee meetings. A planned expansion of NJ   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 12 -- The New Jersey Assembly Democrats issued the following news: Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson concerned by the actions of two Superior Court judges toward young victims of alleged sexual assault crimes in two separate cases calls for their resignation or removal from the court system: "Judges Silva and Troiano must go. Their moral stances exhibited in their comments toward parties in both cases are absolutely unacceptable and unfitting for any officer of t  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 8 -- The New Jersey Democratic State Committee issued the following press release: * * * - Experienced Political Operative, Former Rhode Island Democrats Director Will Work to Continue Party's Progress and Growth * * * The New Jersey Democratic State Committee has hired Tolulope Kevin Olasanoye as its new Executive Director. An experienced political operative, Olasanoye most recently served as the Executive Director of the Rhode Island Democratic Party and previous  more

WALL, New Jersey, July 12 -- New Jersey Resources, a natural gas provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Board Names Steve Westhoven As Successor * * * New Jersey Resources (NYSE: NJR) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Laurence M. Downes, 61, today announced he will retire on September 30, 2019, after 34 years with the company, 24 as CEO. He will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board until the company's Annual Shareowners Meeting. Mr. Downes joined NJR in 1985 and  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 8 -- NICE, an enterprise software solutions provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Financial Services Organizations that Use IPC Unigy Can Now Ensure they are Capturing Every Trader voice Communication in Compliance With Dodd Frank, MiFID II and FX Code of Conduct * * * NICE (NASDAQ: NICE), the leading provider of financial communication compliance solutions, today announced that its NICE COMPASS compliance assurance solution with real-time recording   more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 11 -- The New Jersey Assembly Democrats issued the following news: Legislation sponsored by Assembly Democrats Nancy Pinkin, Shavonda Sumter and Valerie Vainieri Huttle to restrict the use of solitary confinement in New Jersey's prisons was signed into law Thursday by Governor Phil Murphy. "There is significant proof that solitary confinement can have a severe, long-term negative impact on an inmate's mental health," said Pinkin (D-Middlesex). "The overuse of isolatio  more

TRENTON, New Jersey, July 8 -- The New Jersey Assembly Democrats issued the following news: Moving to protect employees who are injured at work, legislation to ensure public safety workers who suffer a disability or death due to their often extreme work requirements are covered by workers' compensation was signed into law Monday by Governor Phil Murphy. The law (A-1741), known as the "Thomas P. Canzanella Twenty First Century First Responders Protection Act," is named after the late Thomas P.   more

BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut, July 12 -- People's United Financial, a financial services company, issued the following news: People's United Bank, N.A. a subsidiary of People's United Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBCT, announced its Healthcare Finance and Capital Markets Divisions served as Lead Arranger and Administrative Agent for an $80 million Senior Secured Credit Facility to Invesque, Inc., (TSX: IVQ.U),a healthcare real estate company focused on the opportunity created by the global aging demogra  more

NEW YORK, July 12 -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued the following joint statement by Chairman Kevin O'Toole, Executive Director Rick Cotton and the Board of Commissioners on the death of 32BJ Service Employees International Union President Hector Figueroa: "We are extremely saddened to learn of the sudden and untimely passing of Hector Figueroa, who advocated tirelessly on behalf of working people and so many who lacked a voice. "Hector's leadership was critical to our h  more

NEW YORK, July 9 -- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey issued the following news release: * * * - New framework will build on previous plan, which saw the Bayonne Bridge raised, port channels deepened to 50 feet, container terminals expanded, roadway capacity increased and the ship-to-rail network completed; - Master plan released as port is experiencing record growth in cargo volume, pushing it into the position of No. 2 in the nation for the first time in two decades, surpassing   more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 10 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Princeton University issued the following news release: * * * - Exactly how fast is the universe expanding? * * * Scientists are still not completely sure, but a Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has used the neutron star merger detected in 2017 to come up with a more precise value for this figure, known as the Hubble constant. Their work appears in the current issue of the journal Nature Astronomy. "The Hubble constant is one of th  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 8 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Bird a Day 2020 Interactive Daily Calendar Eastern & Central North America, by Cornell Lab of Ornithology This Bird a Day 2020 Daily Calendar, designed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is the only interactive page-a-day desk calendar to showcase the birds of eastern and central North America. It features sensational photographs of common birds, many of which were sourced from citizen-scientist  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 8 -- Princeton University Press issued the following book description: Bird a Day 2020 Interactive Daily Calendar Western North America, by Cornell Lab of Ornithology This Bird a Day 2020 Daily Calendar, designed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, is the only interactive page-a-day desk calendar to showcase the birds of western North America. It features sensational photographs of common birds, many of which were sourced from citizen-scientist contributions to the  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 12 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Princeton University issued the following news release: * * * - Astronomers have discovered a distant pair of titanic black holes on a collision course. * * * Each black hole's mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the two gradually draw closer together in a death spiral, they will begin sending gravitational waves rippling through space-time. Those cosmic ripples will join the as-yet-undetected background noise of grav  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 11 -- Princeton University issued the following news release: Princeton biologists Coleen Murphy and Sabine Petry have won two of the three annual "Women in Cell Biology" awards from the American Society for Cell Biology. Murphy, a professor of molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, won the WICB Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Research, which is open to women seven to 15 years into their careers who have made exceptional scient  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 9 -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * - Three new faculty members will help launch a center for autism research * * * Renowned autism experts are joining teams at Rutgers University and Children's Specialized Hospital to lead new centers in the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI). The centers, the first of their kind in New Jersey, will be dedicated to innovative research, education and service. They will focus on diagnosing, treating and   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 9 [TNSresearch] -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * - In the age of high-tech electronics many kids spend about half their visit with grandparents watching videos or playing with apps * * * Grandparents have long been associated with letting their grandchildren do things their parents would never permit. Candy. Extended bedtime. Too much television. Carefree fun. They like to spoil their grandchildren. A new study by Rutgers and other resea  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, July 12 [TNSresearch] -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * - Rutgers professor designs structures for extreme environments * * * With NASA planning to revisit the lunar surface by 2024 and send multiple expeditions by 2028, Rutgers University's Haym Benaroya is optimistic that people will someday live on the moon. Benaroya, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, July 9 -- Princeton University issued the following news release: Looking at a photograph of a single plant surrounded by towering weeds, 14 Native American high school students from New Mexico discussed the parallels between nurturing and maintaining crops and strengthening their own communities. Together, the students brainstormed ways to remove barriers affecting their communities such as substance abuse, obesity and lack of cultural education. "For our children to h  more

CHERRY HILL, New Jersey, July 9 -- TD Bank, a financial services company, issued the following news release: Underprivileged kids don't often get a chance to pitch a business plan. But as two TD Bank employees have discovered through their work with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, inner-city youths have a whole lot of ideas. They just need to be given the opportunity and tools to pursue their goals. Start-up skills Better known as NFTE (pronounced "nifty"), the Network for Teaching  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 8 -- Verisk Analytics, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: * * * - First and Largest U.S. Auto Telematics Data Exchange Continues Growth in Support of Innovative Insurance Products * * * Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, announced today that its Verisk Data ExchangeTM (VDE) has collected 100 billion miles of driving data from consenting customers in the past three years. "Data coming from different car manufactur  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 8 -- Verisk, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: * * * - First and largest U.S. auto telematics data exchange continues growth in support of innovative insurance products * * * Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, announced today that its Verisk Data ExchangeTM (VDE) has collected 100 billion miles of driving data from consenting customers in the past three years. "Data coming from different car manufacturers and te  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 9 -- Verisk, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, will report its financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2019, on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, after the market close. The press release, with accompanying financial information, will be posted on the Verisk investor website at http://investor.verisk.com. Verisk's management team will host a live audio webcast to disc  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 10 -- Verisk, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Powerful suite of software solutions for the specialty market offers new way to manage insurance, reinsurance workflows * * * Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, recently announced the launch of its SequelTM product suite in the United States. The Sequel product suite offers highly intuitive, easily configured, and full-cycle solutions for insurance and reins  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 10 -- Verisk Analytics, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: * * * - Powerful Suite of Software Solutions for the Specialty Market Offers New Way to Manage Insurance, Reinsurance Workflows * * * Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, recently announced the launch of its SequelTM product suite in the United States. The Sequel product suite offers highly intuitive, easily configured, and full-cycle solutions for insurance  more

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, July 9 -- Verisk Analytics, a data analytics provider, issued the following news release: Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, will report its financial results for the fiscal second quarter ended June 30, 2019, on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, after the market close. The press release, with accompanying financial information, will be posted on the Verisk investor website at http://investor.verisk.com. Verisk's management team will host a live audio webc  more

PARSILLANY, New Jersey, July 10 -- Travelport Worldwide, a travel commerce platform, issued the following news release: Travelport, a leading travel technology company, today announced it has been awarded a new long-term technology contract by Australia and New Zealand's top online travel agency, Webjet, following an extensive competitive bid process. Under the agreement, Webjet will participate in initiatives driven by Travelport involving IATA's New Distribution Capability (NDC) standard. N  more