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Got a few million dollars? You could own Gov. Mikie Sherrill longtime home in Montclair now that she’s living in New Jersey’s official governor’s mansion. Sherrill and her husband, First Gentleman Jason Hedberg, are selling the house they’ve lived in for the last 16 years. They recently placed the six-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath Victorian — built in 1865 — on the market. Sherrill and Hedberg bought it for about $1.7 million in 2010, according to state property records. This comes about two months after Sherrill and her family moved full time to Drumthwacket, the Garden State governor’s mansion in Princeton, in...

The bitter war of words between Democrats that could lead to another state government shutdown in New Jersey raged into the night during the year's longest day. The state's Democrat-controlled Legislature defied Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy by passing their own state budget Thursday night, despite the new governor's vow to veto it. And the body's top lawmaker accused Murphy of being dishonest and dictatorial. That came hours after closed-door negotiations broke down, with Murphy standing by his tax hike proposals and alleging his fellow Democrats are foolishly following in the footsteps of the state's previous -- unpopular -- governor, Republican...