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For the past year, Alexa Weitzman, 29, has worked as a research coordinator, licensed acupuncturist and chef at the Integrative Therapies Program for Children With Cancer at Columbia University Medical […]

Lucy Rodriguez, 57, has lived in the same two-bedroom apartment in Astoria, Queens, for 32 years. The living room is painted in a fashionable gold, and the sun streams in […]

James V. Samuelson, 58, is New Jersey Transit's deputy general manager for safety and training, working from an office at Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Since 1970, he has worked for […]

With all the talk of bulls and bears lately, what's happening to cats and dogs? At New York City's main animal shelter, monthly calls to the volunteers who can help […]

WEEKEND PLANS Barbara Corcoran FAMOUS FOR Founding the Corcoran Group, a major real estate firm. LIVES IN Manhattan. LIVES WITH Her husband, Bill Higgins, and two of her six children, […]

STROLLER CENTRAL, Now With a Valet The mothers rushed into the Prospect Park Y.M.C.A. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, heading to prenatal yoga, art class or gym time. 'You want long […]

A dozen 9-year-old girls in jelly-bean-colored bathing suits were learning the crawl at Lake Bryn Mawr Camp one recent morning as older girls in yellow and green camp uniforms practiced […]

The New Jersey surfer defies stereotype. He may work as a carpenter or as an eye surgeon. Could be in his 20s or late 50s. He's able to 'rip the […]

Tim Matheney stalked the silent hallways of South Brunswick High School one recent Wednesday at 1:07 p.m., peering into dark, seemingly empty classrooms and jotting down room numbers whenever he […]

After two years of leading court-ordered reforms to New Jersey's embattled child welfare system, the commissioner of the State Department of Children and Families announced his resignation on Thursday. The […]

An autistic boy is discovered standing in the middle of a busy road, on his way to the beach. A young girl with autism outsmarts a number of locks, leaves […]

The parents of Damion Frye's ninth-grade students are spending their evenings this fall doing something they thought they had left behind long ago: homework. So far, Mr. Frye, an English […]

Schools in at least a dozen districts in northern New Jersey will be closed today as a precaution after an anonymous bomb threat was received by the mayor of Emerson, […]

The lobby of the health department's main office was afloat with helium balloons of school buses and Sesame Street characters, and the room was filling up with small children waiting […]

ASBURY PARK, N.J. The altar is a tray for serving breakfast in bed. The pews are large towels or striped beach chairs. And instead of doodling on the program, distracted […]

In a case widely watched by youth sports leagues across the country, the Internal Revenue Service has reached an agreement with the Fairfield United Soccer Association that clarifies the employment […]

Three New Jersey counties -- Camden, Gloucester and Mercer -- were added yesterday to President Bush's disaster declaration in regard to the northeaster of April 15. Last week, the president […]

President Bush declared parts of New Jersey a federal disaster area yesterday as a result of heavy rain and flooding almost two weeks ago. The designation will enable flood victims […]

The girl, identified in a lawsuit as S. A., is 8 now, with a loving adoptive mother. But throughout most of her life, the people who were supposed to protect […]

The worst moment in the past five days for William Borger came at the end of the boat ride that took him from dry land to his house on North […]

A report released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency found no evidence of discrimination against the people who live near a site where several proposed cleanups under the Superfund program […]

At first blush, the wedding show at the New Jersey Convention and Expo Center seemed pretty straight. Exhibitors as mainstream as Macy's, Fortunoff's and Hilton presented place settings and room […]

Students and other residents of this small Morris County suburb were struggling on Tuesday to make sense of the weekend arrests of a high school football player and his volunteer […]

The township's libraries will remain open during after-school hours, now that local officials have come up with ideas on how to help keep unruly students from disrupting other patrons. The […]

IT was a day for giant hunks of metal, and the boys who love them. Not just boys, of course. There were sisters of boys, and sisters of girls. There […]

When George Moran woke up on Tuesday, he thought he had died and gone to heaven. It was not such an outlandish idea. Mr. Moran, 39, a music teacher in […]

The Rev. Laurie Jean Wurm of All Saints Episcopal Church in Hoboken remembers a moment, eight years ago now, when friends from the richest and poorest sections of the city […]

Soccer seemed a simpler game when Jay Skelton coached his eldest son's kindergarten team nine years ago. This was before 5-year-olds went to goalie clinics, before teams took two-week trips […]

In an effort to discourage people from coming to Paterson, N.J., to buy drugs and solicit prostitutes, the Police Department has begun buying full-page ads in local newspapers listing the […]

The new federal monitor overseeing the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey met with its president for the first time on Monday, and described the first steps he […]

The Communications Workers of America petitioned a federal court yesterday to join a class-action lawsuit against New Jersey's troubled child welfare system. The union, which represents 39,000 state employees, including […]

With barely three months left in his term, Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey is scrambling to avoid a court takeover of New Jersey's beleaguered child welfare agency. The governor said […]

Two years after New Jersey embarked on an ambitious plan to improve its troubled child welfare system, the state is still failing to provide the most basic services. Workers are […]

A center for developmentally disabled children in New Jersey, where a child died three years ago after being placed in restraints, has entered into a legal agreement with the state […]

They ran out of bulletins at the 11 o'clock service on the first Sunday in the life of Good Shepherd Parish. Good Shepherd is the result of a merger of […]

After more than a year of efforts to improve the way New Jersey handles child abuse cases, the Division of Youth and Family Services is still saddled with large caseloads, […]

The desks of Lucas, Nicco, Katia, Maya and their classmates were empty on Tuesday. The kindergartners and the rest of the students at the Cornerstone School were off on an […]

An inspector general's report on the Schools Construction Corporation has found 'internal weaknesses' that make the agency vulnerable to 'mismanagement, fiscal malfeasance, conflicts of interest, and waste, fraud and abuse […]

A quarter-mile away from the falconer standing on the airfield, a fast swirl of starlings, perhaps 200 strong, circled and pulled closer together, spread apart and then regrouped. Monty, a […]

THERE are some clues about the developer, Jonathan F.P. Rose, that can be found in the bathroom of his office here. The reusable -- not disposable -- towels are monogrammed […]

The executive editor of The New York Times outlined a series of steps yesterday that he said the newspaper would take to prevent any recurrence of journalistic fraud, in reaction […]

The Iraqi information minister is curiously absent. Actually, he is sold out, so sold out that any order placed for a doll in his image will not be filled for […]

When St. Paul's Chapel closes its doors after the Easter sunrise service for an interior and exterior cleaning, the recovery workers who have relied on it for warm meals, quiet […]

Two terminals of Philadelphia International Airport were evacuated last night after a woman walked through an unstaffed security lane in Terminal C. 'The passenger was apparently afraid she would be […]

With her meticulous black suit, impeccably neat office and hair swept up like the feathers of a swan, Josephine Esposito, 72, harks back to an earlier era of the American […]

The Women's Professional Football League, which made its Long Island debut last year, has grown to 11 teams playing a 10-game schedule. One of the notable games of the season […]

Jeff Reifman thinks one reason Microsoft hired him when he was 20 was the 'Calvin and Hobbes' cartoon on his resume. Eight years later, he's still operating in a humane, […]