The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, the first boardwalk was built in Atlantic City, and the first town powered by electric light ... Garden State has no shortage of oddities. New Jersey ...

BARNEGAT TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A fast-moving wildfire burning in New Jersey on Tuesday forced thousands of people to evacuate and closed a stretch of a major highway. The Garden State Parkway ...

according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service. An 11-mile section of the Garden State Parkway has been shut.

By 8 p.m. on April 23, the New ... Garden State Parkway and Route 9 reopened on April 23, the Lacey Township Police Department said. As of 5 p.m., all but about 2,600 Jersey Central Power & Light ...