The battle over same-sex marriage in N.J headed toward a legislative showdown Monday night, when a Marriage Bill that would allow such unions narrowly cleared a key legislative
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A New Jersey Apple Store was the target for five masked thugs, who pulled Mac and iPod merchandise off the shelves in a 31-second heist early Wednesday, a CBS television station reported.

It rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands - the polluted northern–New Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago - like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing?