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PRINCETON AREA: Education board members pass background checks
Board of education members from Princeton, Montgomery and West Windsor-Plainsboro have all completed mandatory criminal background checks required by a recent New Jersey law that disqualifies board members or members of charter school boards of trustees from serving if they have been convicted of certain crimes.

Herald News: Diversity and the high court
Christie nominates Asian-American, gay black man to high court

Same-sex marriage debate flares up in New Jersey
A political battle is shaping up in the Garden State about whether to give gay and lesbian couples the right to wed -- a move that, if approved, would make New Jersey the seventh state in the nation to legalize same-sex marriage.