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More than 10,000 layoffs have been announced under Gov. Mike Sherrill. Some of New Jersey's biggest employers cut staff. Heritage companies are leaving.

A half-million-dollar armored SWAT vehicle vanished from a Newark police lot before sunrise — and it was back on the street within two hours, heading toward Jersey City and Irvington.

A traffic stop turned deadly on Route 55 early Mondayt morning and a 5-year-old was left walking alone in the dark.

Lauren Gerhold never made it home for Thanksgiving 2023. This week, a Warren County judge handed down a sentence in the crash that killed her.

Princeton just got a new dessert spot, and it's the kind where you build your own ice cream sandwich from scratch — your cookie, your ice cream, your toppings.

NJ Transit's World Cup performance shattered records, but questions about a possible budget deficit are still being sorted out.

Most New Jersey beaches charge you just to walk on the sand — but a small handful never have. One of those may be about to change in order to recover from beach erosion.

Two major names — Mars Wrigley and Samsung — are packing up their New Jersey headquarters, and the timing couldn't feel more unsettling for the roughly 1,000 workers caught in the middle.

A boating crash on Barnegat Bay killed two young children Sunday night after their boat hit a buoy off Berkeley Township.

Many Verizon stores will now be controlled by franchise owners, affecting over 3,000 jobs with recent cuts.

New Jersey keeps losing residents to other states — and yet the population just hit 9.55 million. That contradiction is worth sitting with for a second.

After 86 years in Newark, New Jersey, Mars — the company behind M&Ms, Snickers, and Skittles — is packing up its corporate offices and heading to Chicago.

A 14-week trial, a hitman paid twice, and a 12-year-old girl caught in the crossfire — the story out of Trenton is one that stayed with a lot of people.

Summer hits its midpoint quietly — no big announcement, just suddenly you're past the halfway mark and wondering where July went.

A recent study naming the best places in America to raise a family does not provide a lot of good news for New Jersey.

South Jersey resort where you can swim and watch planes take off and land.

The U.S. FDA has issued an apology to Taylor Farms after a sampling of lettuce, supposedly linked to the parasitic infection making thousands sick, had a false positive.

The ice cream shop that South Jersey keeps coming back to.

Twenty-eight New Jersey companies just made a national best workplaces list — and a few of the names on it might genuinely surprise you.

A Long Branch cop tackled a knife-wielding man to save a woman's life early Saturday. The officer was stabbed in the head during the arrest.

New Jersey will be in a pleasant slice of the atmosphere Monday with sunshine and low humidity, before gusty thunderstorms and heavy rain return.

These are the top news stories on New Jersey 101.5 for Monday, July 20, 2026.

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NJ hosted eight matches throughout the entirety of the tournament.

Each has pros and cons, but which season is the best?

If you think summer ends after the Fourth of July, you're not alone.

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After 36 years of Sunday dinners and milestone celebrations, a Linden institution is serving its last plates on August 2.

New Jersey had its pick of buzzy shows to claim as its favorite — and it went with one that ended before most streaming services even existed.

Strathmere has been one of the last free beaches left in Cape May County — and that might be about to change after a pretty charged Monday night meeting.

Wildfire smoke from Canada, tornado watches, flash flood warnings — it's not the kind of Saturday anyone planned for, and Central and South Jersey are right in the middle of it.

Something is shifting on the Jersey Shore, and a long-standing coastal tradition might be coming to an unexpected end very soon.

Another major Philadelphia sports star was just spotted hanging out down at the Jersey Shore during a quick break from the action. See where they went.

A 99-year-old Sewell woman died after police say an 86-year-old Williamstown man drove through a red light and crashed into another vehicle at Route 42 and Lake Avenue in Monroe Township.

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