Over 1,700 nurses represented by United Steelworkers Local 4-200 started walking the picket lines and making noise on Aug. 4. Both sides last talked Wednesday without any agreement or new talks scheduled.
A line of thunderstorms Tuesday morning caused flash flooding in New Brunswick, flight cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport, led to a dramatic rescue and spawned a funnel cloud at the Jersey Shore.
The nursing staff at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital have cleared their union to start a strike, if a new contract isn't worked out by July 21.
The seemingly happy group of dolphins were swimming in the Raritan River have not been seen since Wednesday, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center.
Police said 21-year-old Max Spivak was killed in a wrong-way Route 18 collision adjacent to the Rutgers campus. Nageswar Polamuri, 42, of Iselin, was arrested hours later for fleeing, police said.