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Hundreds of mourners gathered at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark early Sunday to mourn singer Whitney Houston, who began her public singing career as a member of the church's junior gospel choir at age 11.

Tucked away for decades in a cabinet in Thomas Edison's laboratory, just behind the cot in which the great inventor napped, a trove of wax cylinder phonograph records has been brought back to life after more than a century of silence.

A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime New Jersey laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein is saying.

School officials are working on treating an asbestos leak found in the ceiling at Redwood Elementary School in West Orange.

Several businesses along Pleasant Valley Way in West Orange were allegedly burglarized, police said.

Police said $150 was allegedly taken out of a teacher's purse at Hazel Elementary School by a former student.

A man was found dead in his home on Nance Road in West Orange a day after his wife died of a possible drug overdose, police said.

Each year, author-screenwriter-playwright John Dandola makes several trips to Marco Island, spending in total at least two months here.

An ordinance proposed by Councilman Joe Krakoviak regarding posting council agendas on the township website garnered unanimous approval on first reading after inciting debate in previous weeks between township officials.

South Orange resident Anthony Greene - a man with deep South Orange and Maplewood roots - is the new face of the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race.

Author Kofi Ayim who wrote about a former slave who once owned the land that now sits under The Star-Ledger building.

Caldwell-West Caldwell Schools may soon join neighboring districts around the county, and throughout the state, by moving school board elections from April to November.

Authorities maintain racially charged graffiti found plastered across a football locker room at the high school led to a fight between students at O'Connor Park in West Orange.

West Orange High School football players Terrence Russel and Lance Smith each received an athletic scholarship to attend college in the fall.

Livingston police used an anti-theft auto recovery system to find a carjacked car, but they are still seeking the person who took the vehicle, police officials said.A The owner of the car, a 40-year-old West Orange woman, was carjacked Monday from the Livingston Tiger Mart A on the corner of South Orange Avenue and East Hobart Gap Road, according ... (more)

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A remarkable new energy source from fractional hydrogen will allow a gallon of ordinary water to become the energy equivalent of 200 barrels of oil, a team of physicists working near the onetime New Jersey laboratories of Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein is saying.

West Orange soccer star Jelani Williams signs his letter of intent with St. John's. With him are Winston Williams, his father and : Margaret Fahey, WOHS Guidance Counselor; Dr.

A group of Chinese exchange students and teachers got their first local tour of West Orange and surrounding towns this weekend.