SECAUCUS, N.J. - A truck driver from Queens, N.Y., is in critical but stable condition at a Newark hospital after his tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline flipped over and caught fire on a New Jersey Turnpike exit ramp in Secaucus.

TRENTON, N.J. - Fifty-nine percent of New Jerseyans say they are worse off financially than they were a year ago, and most don't expect their personal finances to get any better in the year ahead.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - With no shortage of bad economic news to go around, government finance is expected to be the major theme of an address to municipal officials by New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey's Environmental Protection Department overstepped its bounds over beaches.

WEST WINDSOR, N.J. - Police believe speed and driver inexperience were factors that left two cars carrying four teenagers in a pond in West Windsor.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. - Two men in Ocean County are accused of seeking the death of the state's key witness from behind bars days after they were convicted of murder.

PASSAIC, N.J. - Violence awareness might be the next lesson for a 10-year-old who brought a yellow toy gun to School 6 in Passaic.

NEW YORK - ImClone Systems Inc. said Thursday it received approval to make three cancer drug candidates at a facility in New Jersey, as it prepares to ramp up late-stage trials of the products.

NEWARK, N.J. - Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty Airport say that months after a new takeoff pattern was put in place, some planes continue to turn in the wrong direction.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Officials from the New York Giants and New York Jets are showing off the work that's been done on their new stadium.

NEW YORK - New York Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina says he's retiring.

LITTLE FALLS, N.J. - Almost as remarkable as the New York Red Bulls' improbable ride to the MLS Cup championship game has been the lineup the team has utilized in their late-season run.

NEW YORK - New York Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina announced his retirement Thursday even as he comes off his first 20-win season.

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey's original manuscript of the U.S. Bill of Rights is on display Thursday and Friday in art the state archives in Trenton.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Thursday proposed delaying some municipal pension contributions to help local communities cope with the faltering economy without cutting services or boosting property taxes.

SECAUCUS, N.J. - Traffic around the Meadowlands sports complex is tied in knots after a fuel tanker accident on the New Jersey Turnpike.

NEWARK, N.J. - In a Nov. 19 story about a libel ruling, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Thomas John Salzano, who brought a defamation suit against The Record of Bergen County, was chief managing officer of a bankrupt Newark telecommunications company. Salzano is the son of Thomas N. Salzano, who served in that role.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - "I will solve this."

MONMOUTH BEACH, N.J. - New Jersey's wayward dolphins are getting more company by the day in the Shrewsbury River.

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. - New York police say an officer trying to find a wrong-way driver had to bail out of his cruiser when he saw her coming right at him on a cramped overpass.