Dan Alexander

State education officials will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about why it was difficult to keep.

Boston University is planning to hold a candlelight vigil for three students studying in New Zealand including one from Manalapan who were killed when their minivan crashed during a weekend trip.

Sun Tan Mom Patricia Krentcil didn’t feel burned by this weekend’s Saturday Night Live sketch about her.

Much of the nation got to witness the supermoon on Saturday night but in New Jersey we’ll have to rely on pictures and video to view it.

Stuart Chaifetz is delaying the promised release of additional audio of his son being bullied by teachers inside a Cherry Hill classroom.

Officials say a seal that came ashore in central New Jersey does not appear to be injured.

New Jersey is drying out after a slow moving coastal storm delivered much-needed rain to the parched
state.

New Jersey authorities are probing reports that two state police troopers recently escorted a caravan of high-speed luxury sports cars that were traveling down the Garden State Parkway at speeds of more than 100 mph.

Hundreds of volunteers spent part of Saturday cleaning up New Jersey’s beaches as part of Clean Ocean Action’s (COA) 27th Annual Spring Beach Sweeps.

East Orange police say a 10-year-old girl who was missing more than 24 hours has been found

Neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, is now  jailed in Sanford, Florida, the site of the killing Feb. 26 that set off a nationwide debate over racial profiling and self-defense.

Brush fires flared up in the Meadowlands near the Izod Center creating large, black plumes of smoke visible for miles.