SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Only New Jersey, Delaware and Massachusetts were among the holdouts for banning the sale and use of all consumer fireworks. However, a recent change in the law has made a handful of fireworks legal in the Garden State. New Jersey now joins Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and Vermont as states that allow only the sale and use of sparkler and novelty fireworks.

According to the New ...

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A former contract environmental engineer for South Plainfield who once was an executive for Birdsall Services Group, the engineering firm that closed in the wake of a sweeping pay-to-play scheme, has been sentenced to 270 days in jail and two years of probation, according to an announcement from the state Attorney General.

James Johnston, 55, pleaded guilty on April ...