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NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J. -- Kisha Theodore had just arrived at work when she saw three missed calls on her phone from an unfamiliar number. A friend was calling from the [...]

A petition in New Jersey signed by more than 2,300 Democratic officials, advocates and residents has helped sway members of the State Senate Judiciary Committee to call for a vote […]

On Tuesday, The Local voiced its opinion that domesticated cats should stay inside. Then the fur began to fly! Below are arguments in favor of indoor kitties, and highlights from […]

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 […]

With Massachusetts deciding this week to allow marriages of same-sex couples who live out of state, and Gov. David A. Paterson of New York directing state agencies in May to […]

Gabriel Blau and Dylan Stein will be heading to Amherst, Mass., in a matter of weeks to complete a marriage ceremony they started two years ago. At the couple's Jewish […]

Harold Wenning, 69, remembers what he called 'the one-for-five trick' from his days running a news kiosk in Midtown Manhattan. 'They'll say it's a five and give you a one,' […]

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 […]

THERE are ways in which the Brunners are like many other middle-aged married couples. Former high school and college sweethearts, they finish each other's sentences and order the same food […]

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the public school district in East Brunswick, N.J., was not violating the constitutional rights of a football coach when it prohibited staff members […]

Daniella, the 6-month-old, pink-clad baby abandoned by her parents and dropped off at a firehouse in Queens last week, took a circuitous and unusual route to safety with the help […]

New Jersey's civil union law 'creates a second-class status' for same-sex couples and is particularly vexing for people in the military, transgender people, the poor and minorities, according to a […]

Duane Buck, a senior postal clerk at the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission, usually spends the day after Thanksgiving Christmas shopping with his wife. But this year, Mr. Buck was […]

Prosecutors in Brooklyn said yesterday they were pursuing the extradition of a man who fled to Israel more than 20 years ago after being accused of molesting young boys. The […]

Jodi Weiner, an electrician from Montclair, said that when she tried to get health benefits for her partner of nine years, she was told that her union's plans did not […]

Despite some improvements, problems remain in New Jersey's child welfare system, the state's child advocate said in a report, released yesterday, on the deaths of four children in 2006. While […]

After the Department of Justice came under fire for denying or delaying death benefits for a number of families of firefighters and law enforcement personnel who had died of heart […]

Because there is no consensus on the issue of when life begins, a doctor does not have to tell a woman considering an abortion that the procedure would result in […]

Michael D. Falkouski, a volunteer assistant fire chief in the Albany suburb of Rensselaer, was awakened at 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, 2005, in the middle of a blizzard. There […]

The Union County prosecutor's office dismissed all charges on Monday against a Plainfield man who served 19 years in prison for the murders of the two children he was raising. […]

The commission that monitors how well civil unions are working for New Jersey's same-sex couples met for the first time on Monday and heard about the first official discrimination complaint […]

A veteran of the Persian Gulf war of 1991 who has been in custody for three years while United States immigration officials have tried to deport him has been granted […]

A New Jersey appellate court ruled on Monday that the state Meadowlands Commission is responsible for ensuring that low-income housing is included in the development of 21,000 acres it oversees […]

A former clerk at the State Motor Vehicle Commission office in East Orange has been sentenced to five years in state prison for selling drivers' licenses to unauthorized people, Attorney […]

A man who served 19 years in prison for the sadistic murders of his companion's two children walked out of the Union County Courthouse flanked by his family members after […]

The Kearny Board of Education in New Jersey and the parents of Matthew LaClair, a 17-year-old junior at Kearny High School, settled their dispute on Tuesday night about a teacher […]

Nickie Brazier called U.P.S., where she is a driver, to add Heather Aurand to her health insurance the day after their Feb. 22 civil union in New Jersey, knowing it […]

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 […]

After a recent federal study showing New Jersey had the nation's highest per-capita prevalence of autism, the State Assembly is expected to approve a package of bills Thursday intended to […]

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 […]

Students who are bullied by other students because of their sexual orientation are protected by New Jersey's antidiscrimination law, and school districts must take reasonable steps to stop such harassment, […]

Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed an executive order yesterday committing the state to reduce New Jersey's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The order also requires lowering such […]

After a public school teacher was recorded telling students they belonged in hell if they did not accept Jesus as their savior, the school board has banned taping in class […]

Allaying the fears of some clergy members, the New Jersey attorney general announced yesterday that the state would not require clerics to unite same-sex couples in civil unions. In a […]

A group of priests who oppose the requirement of celibacy for Roman Catholic priests announced yesterday that it would ordain at least three married men as priests on Dec. 10. […]

In the years since the fire in a Seton Hall University dormitory burned more than half his body, Alvaro Llanos became a father, went back to school and had more […]

The New Jersey Supreme Court granted gay couples the same rights as married couples this week, leaving it to the State Legislature whether to call their partnerships marriages or civil […]

Some of the 13 plaintiffs clasped hands, hard, and fidgety children were somehow kept quiet. For about an hour, they waited nervously for news of the New Jersey Supreme Court's […]

First came news of a day-care center in South Jersey in a former thermometer factory. Then came criticism that unlicensed consultants had been hired by developers and polluters to determine […]

As most people here in Hunterdon County know, white-tailed deer can be a problem, nibbling on gardens, spreading Lyme disease and posing a risk to every driver on the road. […]

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 […]

ON a hidden bend of the Hackensack River, a mysterious disappearing cemetery faces west, toward the happy hunting grounds, the American Indian heaven. At sunset, 'there's a beam that just […]

After five years of legal battles, the leaders of this Bergen County borough approved an agreement on Tuesday night that enables an eruv, a symbolic boundary for Orthodox Jews that […]

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 […]

For years, would-be adoptive parents have traded anecdotes about the tortuous process of adopting a foster child in New Jersey. So when Catherine Smith chose to brave the system in […]

The residential motel where three people died in a fire on Sunday morning was cited twice in the past year for illegally chaining its exit doors shut, the authorities said […]

NO jumping off the high dive at the town pool. No jumping into the main pool. No diving into the main pool. No exiting except by the ladders. No sitting […]