WOODBRIDGE, N.J. - New Jersey's frazzled drivers are getting some help.
Besides showing off a new $29 million traffic-management center designed to keep traffic moving, state officials yesterday unveiled a new Web site and telephone system to help commuters navigate the Garden State's jammed roads and save money on ever-pricier gas.
Three New Jersey convicted sex offenders - including one from Camden County - have been charged with surfing My-Space and Facebook, the state Attorney General's Office announced yesterday.
Bodies found in N.J. home
Several bodies were found in a Tenafly, N.J., home last night, but law-enforcement officials said details surrounding the deaths were not immediately clear.
- BOSTON - For decades, Boston University sociologist Peter Berger says, American intellectuals have looked down on evangelicals. Educated people have the notion that evangelicals are "barefoot people of Tobacco Road who, I don't know, sleep with their sisters or something," Berger says.
- Bzztttttttt! Ouch! There's dumb and then there's really dumb: Two Somerset County, Pa., men are charged with trying to steal live power lines that were still attached to a transformer and utility poles.
- LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood private eye was convicted yesterday on charges that he schemed to dig up dirt for his well-heeled clients to use in lawsuits, divorces and contract disputes against the rich and famous.
- LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury yesterday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
- WASHINGTON - Barack Obama accused President Bush of "a false political attack" yesterday after Bush warned in Israel against appeasing terrorists - early salvos in a general election campaign that's already blazing even as the Democratic front-runner tries to sew up his party's presidential nomination.
- SAN FRANCISCO - California's Supreme Court declared gay couples in the nation's biggest state can marry - a monumental but perhaps short-lived victory for the gay rights movement that was greeted yesterday with tears, hugs, kisses and at least one instant proposal of matrimony.
- ELIZABETH, N.J. - As governor, Jim McGreevey lived in luxury. But, it was a life mostly paid for by others - chiefly taxpayers.
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WASHINGTON - Negotiations on a homeowner rescue package that could help half a million strapped borrowers get government-backed mortgages hit a snag yesterday over how to pay for the plan.
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LOS ANGELES - Legendary Hollywood press agent Warren Cowan, who represented stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87.
- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama yesterday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party's likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy.
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