Year in Review: The Return of Sheila Oliver

After a tumultuous period as Assembly speaker from 2010 to 2014, Sheila Oliver fell prey to the same New Jersey Democratic bosses who had orchestrated her rise. She was seen as too independent-minded and not enough of a team player during a heady time when Democrats were busy cutting all kinds of deals with Republican Gov. Chris Christie.

N.J. authorities may have caught serial killer, experts say

Criminologists say if the charges against 20-year-old Khalil Wheeler-Weaver turn out to be true, New Jersey will have a name to add to the list of America's serial killers. Authorities allege Wheeler-Weaver, an Orange resident who worked as a security guard, killed at least three women, and tried to kill a fourth before he was arrested last year.

Post-Prez Election Gloom Lingers in Corners of NJ Dem Party Establishment

The stench of cigarette smoke, carbolic, vomit, and a hint of coming closed coffin lids climbed off the casino carpets like the plague as a squat overweight man in late middle age in a Don Johnson T-shirt with a jacket thrown over it rolled the dice at one of the tables and emitted a prehistoric shriek of triumph. The crowds plodded in and out of the dull, liver-yellow lit room in dogged pursuit of individualized pleasure - or pain, or as was the case in a clump of Newarkers outside a coffee shop on the street, agony.

Christie says his staff didn’t do illegal campaign work. Let’s make sure | Editorial

As if the Bridgegate blowback couldn't get any worse, fresh evidence of the misuse of government, and Gov. Chris Christie's knowledge of it, has emerged. Newly revealed emails strongly indicate the governor knew staffers in his taxpayer-funded office were courting endorsements for his 2013 re-election campaign, doing his private political work on the taxpayer dime.

NJ Town Celebrates Hometown Astronaut Twins Mark and Scott Kelly

Not all of the kids of West Orange, New Jersey's Pleasantdale Elementary School were exactly thrilled when they heard their school would be renamed to Kelly Elementary, according to the school's PTA members. But they quickly warmed to the idea - and yesterday , they cheered the loudest of all as members of the school community and city residents gathered to celebrate their identical-twin hometown astronauts, Mark and Scott Kelly.

School in twin astronauts’ hometown renamed in their honor

Retired astronaut Scott Kelly, right, speaks while standing next to his astronaut twin brother Mark Kelly during an event renaming the elementary school they attended, Thursday, May 19, 2016, in West Orange, N.J. Pleasantdale Elementary School was renamed the Kelly Elementary School during the ceremony.