South Orange-Maplewood school officials filed a bias complaint, after a high school athlete was briefly kept from playing due to her hairstyle. It's a style protected from racial discrimination by state law.
Imam Hassan Sharif was shot as he arrived for Fajr, or pre-dawn, prayers at the Masjid Muhammad Newark on South Orange Avenue around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said a man he identified as an imam was shot outside the Masjid Muhammad Newark mosque at South Orange Avenue and Camden Street around 6:15 a.m
A policy analyst with the Murphy administration, an 86-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man were all killed in crashes on New Jersey highways during the New Year's holiday.