TRENTON, N.J. - Merck & Co. will start cutting checks for former users of its withdrawn painkiller Vioxx next month after announcing Thursday that it will fund a $4.85 billion settlement expected to resolve roughly 50,000 lawsuits.
NEWARK, N.J. - The call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been sued by another New Jersey girl, who says Ashley Dupre used her lost driver's license to appear on a "Girls Gone Wild"
NEWARK, N.J. - The call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been sued by another New Jersey woman, who claims Ashley Dupre used her lost driver's license to appear on a "Girls Gone Wild"
WASHINGTON - A Minnesota family has filed a lawsuit seeking to force a drug company to let their son have access to an experimental drug for a terminal form of muscular dystrophy.
PORTLAND, Maine - The future looks uncertain for Portland's International Marine Terminal and its container-handling operation, which was closed last week after barge service was suspended.
DEMAREST, N.J. - Tuesday's first-round scores in the 88th New Jersey State Golf Association Open Championship at the par-72, 6,885 Alpine Country Club with player, home club and score. a-denotes amateur:
MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. - Governor Jon. S. Corzine is set to sign a law that erases one part of New Jersey's affordable housing law that has always troubled advocates for the poor.
PANGUITCH, Utah - A tour bus went off a state highway near Bryce Canyon National Park in southern Utah, landing upside down in a creek bed and catching fire Thursday.