Townsquare Staff

The Big Ten won't be playing football this fall because of concerns about COVID-19.

State New Jersey Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, in secret recordings made without her knowledge, says she called off a request to test a top aide of Gov. Phil Murphy's relatives for coronavirus.

Mayors of 20 of Ocean County’s 33 municipalities sent a letter Friday to Murphy calling on him to “open our economy now,” complaining that the Democratic governor is not moving fast enough.

Two big questions face salons and personal care businesses as they eye potential reopenings in an ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The move from the state's largest insurer expands on a series of changes made by it and other insurers to expand care or minimize risk of exposure during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

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State health officials Friday evening said they'd identified a fourth presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus in New Jersey.

State officials say bias incidents jumped by 65 percent from 2018 to 2019 — the largest one-year increase in the time the state's been tracking the figures.

One in 38 students — or a total of about 14,000 — have a religious exemption from vaccinations. That number has grown in five years from just under 9,000.

A gruesome serial murderer who has claimed that he may have killed as many as 100 victims in a span of three decades has now admitted to killing three more girls in North Jersey.