WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida doctor charged with corruption alongside New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has been ordered to remain jailed while awaiting trial for alleged Medicare fraud. Attorneys for 60-year-old Salomon Melgen said their client posed no risk of fleeing. But U.S. Magistrate Judge James Hopkins sided Friday with prosecutors who said the… Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday afternoons, women start trickling into Dr. Norman Rowe’s Upper East Side office, a bright, white space hidden inside a ritzy doorman building near Central Park. When they leave his office a short time later and head out to their evening engagements, they’ll be just a few cc’s heavier. The women are getting their breasts… Read the rest of this entry »

DOVER, N.H. — After two days of back-to-back New Hampshire meetings at diners and with donors, Gov. Christie was at his final public event for the week. It was Friday at 5 p.m. and like many of the 150 people who’d crammed into Fury’s Publick House, his tie was loosened. So was his tongue. Having held… Read the rest of this entry »

Rich Gerbounka, meet Sammy Hagar. Gerbounka is the 69-year-old former mayor of Linden who has been the most outspoken champion of red-light cameras in New Jersey. Hagar is the rocker who wrote the anthem for every frustrated driver in America during those horrible days when the dread double-nickel was the national speed limit: “I Can’t Drive… Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — Alarmed by the rising number of crashes caused by distracted drivers, a professor at Florida Atlantic University has invented a software program that can block a driver from sending or receiving text messages from behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. The invention by Daniel Raviv was promising enough to prompt Florida Atlantic University… Read the rest of this entry »

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Saturday that he would end the budget sequester requiring automatic defense and domestic spending cuts if he became president, a critical issue in South Carolina, which has a large military economy and is the site of the first primary in the South. Walker, who is considering running for… Read the rest of this entry »

TRENTON — A bill that would criminalize dogfighting in New Jersey and allow prosecutors to treat those who participate in dogfights like mobsters cleared a legislative hurdle Thursday. Technically, dogfighting isn’t a crime in New Jersey, though prosecutors can charge those who participate in the act under animal cruelty laws. The measure ( S736) approved by… Read the rest of this entry »

It was just four years ago that Gov. Chris Christie and Democrats in the Legislature struck a deal on a bipartisan plan to address years of underfunding the public-employee pension system. The legislation mandated increased contributions into the system from both from the state and its workers.… Read the rest of this entry »

TRENTON — Bill Stepien, Gov. Chris Christie’s former campaign manager and deputy chief of staff who was tarnished in the George Washington Bridge scandal, is once again working on campaigns in New Jersey. Assembly Minority Leader Jon Bramnick (R-Union), who is attempting to take control of the lower house in this year’s election, said Wednesday that… Read the rest of this entry »