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The young boy looked up at his mother with a pained expression framing his tiny features.

Christopher Bazur looks forward to the one week a year when he's surrounded by peers struggling with the same challenges he fights daily.

A Morris Township man was charged with punching an off-duty police officer in the face as the officer tried to break up a large fight in a Rite-Aid parking lot in Newton, authorities said today.

The weather wasn't always great and the recession left people with less money to spend, but many folks still gave two thumbs up to this year's New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show.

The number of serious bear incidents in New Jersey dropped by 25 percent this past month compared to the previous month, but are up by 14 percent for the year, according to the latest report released by the state Division of Fish and Wildlife.

Alan Wehner says his wife, Stella Ann, is competitive about everything -- contests, board games, you name it.

Dancers, singer-songwriters, musicians and talents of all types came together to please the crowd Saturday afternoon and evening at the New Jersey State Fair/Sussex County Farm and Horse Show.

AUGUSTA - Heavy rains that caused damage throughout the region Sunday morning could not keep some people away from the New Jersey State Fair and Sussex County Farm & Horse Show.

Christopher Welch is one part country and equal parts rock 'n' roll, but it was the Randolph singer-songwriter's overall act that won over Priscilla Stafford, director of the Performing Arts Tent at the New Jersey State Fair and Sussex County Farm & Horse Show, which kicks off 10 a.m. Saturday and runs though Aug.

From Beulah the elephant to the Ferris wheel, to Warren Welsh's rooster-mimicking call, the American county fair tradition is back in Sussex County.