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The state’s top law enforcement agency is threatening action against sheriff’s offices in two counties after they defied the Murphy administration’s policies on illegal immigration by renewing cooperation agreements with ICE.

Legislation that will assist farms with loans to buy equipment has been approved by the New Jersey Assembly.

Expungement of criminal records advanced easily. But vote on switching to civil fine for possession was shelved, revived, then advanced without discussion.

Assemblyman Roy Freiman, D-Somerset, said his bill serves as a "circuit breaker" that presses pause on escalating increases should employment or revenues take a plunge.

A bill raising New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 an hour for most workers by 2024 was passed Thursday and will be signed into law Monday.