Singing "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" might be okay in Maplewood-South Orange schools.

Children won't be signing religious songs over the Christmas holiday in one New Jersey school district.

An 80-year-old Millburn woman was awakened early Sunday morning by a man with a knife, who held it to her throat and demanded cash, the police said this afternoon.

With a former prosecutor waiting in the wings to take over as New Jersey's first Republican governor in a dozen years, Democrats know time is short to push through a social agenda in the Legislature that includes legalizing gay marriage and the use of marijuana for chronic medical conditions.

DREAMGIRLS and WEST SIDE STORY to Perform on The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS By Dreamgirls 11/19/2009 The cast of the new production of DREAMGIRLS at the Apollo Theater will perform the title song "Dreamgirls" and the cast of Broadway's hit production of WEST SIDE STORY will perform "America" Thursday, November 26, at 9am on "The Thanksgiving ...

The Westfield Memorial Library ushers in the holiday season with three programs designed to get participants in the holiday mood.

For a year, safety experts have been celebrating the biggest decline in state and national road fatalities in decades a ' one of the few benefits of a recession that makes drivers think twice about logging unnecessary miles.

One night not long after she opened Asbury Park Dance and Yoga, Katie Farhat Larkin ran a few numbers through her head and decided her prices didn't add up.

South Mountain residents presented proposals this morning to improve traffic safety in their neighborhood in a meeting with township safety committee members and the Millburn Police Department.

Dr. David Kraemer, professor of Talmud and rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary, is concerned about the loss of distinctly Jewish eating habits among acculturated suburban Jews.

One of the two men imprisoned for starting the deadly Seton Hall University domitory fire in 2000 that killed three students waived his right to be considered for parole this month.

At 9 a.m. today, Trader Joe's opened its newest store on Millburn Avenue in Millburn, on the site of the old Whole Foods.

By Alan Caruba S. Orange, NJ - The November 3rd elections were a turning point, swiftly reached.

Daniel Mancini has made at least one man cry with his grandmother's meatball and tomato sauce recipe.

New Jersey's candidates for governor darted through the state Monday on the last day of a campaign being billed by some as a vote on President Barack Obama's popularity.

Two men from out of town were arrested in Millburn this week for filing false police reports about attacks, while a third man was the victim of a very real assault about a parking spot in the parking lot of The Mall at Short Hills.

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Trip No. 24: The Pizza Patrol returns to Essex and Hudson counties. Star Tavern is probably North Jersey's best-known pizzeria.

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Garden State politicians harvest scandals by the bushel. Mark Greenbaum is a native of South Orange and bemused observer of his home state who lives in Washington New Jersey has it tough.