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The article offers information about the services offered by the support group Mothers of Only Children of Northern New Jersey for parents of one child in New Jersey. The monthly meetings of the group alternate between child-centered play dates and nights out for parents of only child. The parents in the group exchange tips on vacation destinations that attract children, how to be a main playmate for toddlers and how to face strangers in supermarkets.

The article focuses on the results of a study by Harvard University researchers which found that Asian women in Bergen County, New Jersey live longer than any other ethnic subgroup of people in the United States, according to federal statistics. Elderly women in the county from Korea, China, and Hong Kong who were interviewed attribute their longevity to a healthy diet, belief in God, and their close-knit communities.

The article focuses on the New Jersey's child welfare system. According to the author, few changes have been made to the system since an effort to reform its inadequacies began more than 18 months ago. It is the author's view that the difficulty New Jersey officials have had in providing promised medical exams to children offers a glimpse into some of the obstacles that the state has faced in trying to repair the system. It is suggested that the system is still suffering from staff shortages, poor financing and poor communication. United States.

Looks at how Hellfest, a three-day punk music festival scheduled to being on August 19, 2005 in Trenton, New Jersey, has been cancelled at the last minute, leaving fans stranded in the area. Comments from stranded fans regarding the cancellation; Review of how the event would have been the ninth consecutive year for Hellfest; Reports on how promoters hoped all the ticketholders would receive refunds.

Reports a federal indictment in New Jersey accuses eight women and two men of participating in a smuggling ring that brought females from Honduras to the United States. Charges against the ten for conspiracy to commit forced labor offenses, alien smuggling, and harboring illegal aliens; How Honduran women were recruited for slave labor and abused; Comment from the federal prosecutor, Christopher J. Christie; The names listed in the indictment, including the ringleader Luisa Medrano, a naturalized citizen who is from El Salvador.

The article reports that hundreds of policemen surrounded the Fox Hollow golf course after local dweller John Hawkins accepted that he had seen the sharpshooter in the golf course who killed an agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), Barry Lee Bush, in New Jersey. The police increased its vigilance around the golf course to catch the sharpshooter.

Reports that a female police officer from Fair Lawn, New Jersey was killed and another officer shot in Fair Lawn. Pursuit of the suspects by police; Details of the shootings; Comments from witnesses.

Presents news briefs from New York City and New Jersey as of March 28, 2003.

Discusses the birthday wish of Agnes Warner, who turned 105 years old. Desire of Warner to go on a date; Men who entered a dating contest to win a date with Warner; Profile of Warner; Her experiences at a retirement home in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Profiles Tom Brown Jr, the technical adviser for the motion picture 'The Hunted.' Plot of the movie; Books that Brown has written, including 'The Tracker'; School, called the Tracker School, that he runs in New Jersey.

Reports on a State Appellate Court decision that New Jersey legislative districts need to be redrawn. Ruling that Newark and Jersey City should each contain no more than two districts, as opposed to the current three, and no other cities should have more than one district; Implications for the state's political balance, in light of the districts being widely seen as helping Democrats by including city voters in suburban districts, which gives minority candidates a better chance; Outlook for a ripple effect that would force the Legislative Apportionment Commission to redraw other district lines.

Reports on a midair collision of two small airplanes, a Piper Lance and a Cessna 172, whose wreckage fell to the ground in a residential neighborhood in Fairfield, New Jersey. Details of the crash which killed both pilots and occurred near the Essex County Airport; Investigation by the U.S. agencies, the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Reports the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on October 24, 2002 that reversed a U.S. federal district court ruling that allowed the borough of Tenafly, New Jersey to remove a symbolic enclosure established by Orthodox Jews in the town.

Provides news briefs on the metropolitan areas in the U.S. as of September 17, 2002, including the cases of West Nile virus in New York and the volume of toll jumpers in New Jersey.

Reports the agreement between the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and the Standardbred Breeders and Owners Association of New Jersey allowing betting and telephone wagering in the state.

Reports on the murder of limousine driver Costas Christofi at the estate of former professional basketball player Jayson Williams in Alexandria Township, New Jersey on February 14, 2002.

Reports on the tentative agreement between the publisher of 'The Jersey Journal' in Jersey City, New Jersey and the drivers' union on February 1, 2002.

Presents news briefs in metropolitan New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as of November 28, 2000. Expectations for the final vote tallies for the 10th State Judicial District of New York; Increasing number of millionaires living in New Jersey; Decision of Robert C. Leuba to quit as chief court administrator in Hartford, Connecticut.

Reports on the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival in September 2000 in New Jersey. Various participants and participants who read poems in the festival; Statements from James Haba, the festival director.

Provides news items and updates in New York City, New York and New Jersey as of June 11, 2000. Passage of a legislation for a change of the state militia song `Jersey Blue' of New Jersey; Death of Jonathan Larson, creator of the Broadway musical `Rent.'

Reports that Sergeant Joseph Farina, a police officer, helped rescue people from a burning apartment building in Newark, New Jersey. Details on the fire incident; Heroic actions made by the police; Comment from Director Joseph J. Santiago of the Newark police in New Jersey.

Focuses on the habits of some Hong Kong expatriates in New York who enjoy going to the Meadowlands Racetrack in New Jersey during the late night to bet on the races that are shown there all night long. The extreme popularity of horse racing in Hong Kong; Description of the bettors and their habits at the track; Why the track is open all night; Comments from the bettors on the sport.

Presents news briefs concerning New York and New Jersey, as of June 26, 2003.