Robert Levy’s record in the Vietnam War was impressive: two Army tours and several honors, including a Bronze Star. It just wasn’t as impressive as he claimed.Decades of lies caught up with him when he was mayor of Atlantic City, where four of the last...

Federal prosecutors say they should not be forced to drop references to al-Qaida and jihad from the indictment of five men accused of plotting to attack soldiers on Fort Dix.Lawyers for the men last month asked a judge in U.S. District Court in Camden to...

Companies that were sued over contaminated pet food linked to the deaths of perhaps thousands of dogs and cats have agreed to pay $24 million to pet owners in the United States and Canada.The settlement is detailed in papers filed late Thursday in U.S....

The Campbell Soup Co. said Monday its profit climbed in the third quarter as it completed the sale of its Godiva Chocolatier brand. But its adjusted profit fell on higher ingredient costs if the impact of the Godiva sale were excluded.Its shares fell...

Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state’s new law that restricts their use of the Internet, authorities said Friday.State police set up accounts on...

The former president of a fraternity at Rider University has settled a lawsuit with the parents of a pledge who drank himself to death last year, the family’s attorney said Friday.Michael Torney agreed to pay $150,000 to the family of Gary DeVercelly...

The Campbell Soup Co.’s kid-oriented soups, which feature characters such as Dora the Explorer and Batman on the cans, are getting their second sodium reduction in three years, the company announced Monday.This time, the 12 soups for kids will have 480...

A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a “second-class status” for gay couples, rather than giving them equality.The report stops short of recommending that the state...

When operators of sex-oriented Web sites gather at the Internext convention starting Sunday in Las Vegas, a major leak at a little New Jersey company is likely to be a big topic.Freehold-based Too Much Media, which sells accounting software for adult Web...

The federal jail holding five men accused of plotting an attack on Fort Dix has promised the men will get better access to evidence in their case as a judge considers letting them out on bail.A bail hearing is scheduled Thursday for the men, charged with...