Jeremy Hazell scores 33 points to lead Seton Hall to 89-79 win over Cornell. Jeremy Hazell scored 33 points to lead Seton Hall to an 89-79 win over Cornell on Friday night.

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Hazell's 26 points help Seton Hall rally from first-half deficit to defeat Monmouth 87-72. Jeremy Hazell scored 26 points and Herb Pope had 15 points and 17 rebounds to lift Seton Hall to an 87-72 victory over Monmouth on Sunday.

Jim Willse, longtime editor of NJ's Star-Ledger of Newark, retiring after 15 years. The longtime newsroom leader of The Star-Ledger of Newark is retiring after a 15-year run in which he led New Jersey's largest newspaper to two Pulitzer prizes before the industry's financial woes forced him to cut staff.

Candidates in bruising NJ governor race took unusual paths starting with events a decade ago. In January 1999, Jon Corzine was stripped of power as co-CEO at Goldman Sachs. The same month, Chris Christie made the first of a handful of trips to Austin, Texas, to meet with George W. Bush about a presidential run the Texas governor was considering.

CAMBRIDGE - Rumeal Robinson scaled the pinnacle of American sports in April 1989, an ice-in-his-veins basketball player from the streets of Cambridge who sank a pair of pressure-packed free throws to vault the University of Michigan to a storybook national championship. His tale was the stuff of fantasy: rescued from homelessness at age 10, given shelter and self-esteem by strangers, and presented with a new life that once seemed destined for aimless tragedy when his biological mother abandoned him. He even had the Cambridge street he lived on named after him. That tale, inspiring and incredible, has taken a shockingly tawdry twist. His adoptive mother wants the street, Rumeal Robinson Place, stripped of its name and rededicated to her late husband. And she wants a mural of her son, placed in honor near the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School fieldhouse, purged of his glory-days image. Helen Ford, incredulous and embittered, alleges that Robinson swindled her of the sprawling old home wher

CAMBRIDGE - Rumeal Robinson scaled the pinnacle of American sports in April 1989, an ice-in-his-veins basketball player from the streets of Cambridge who sank a pair of pressure-packed free throws to vault the University of Michigan to a storybook national championship. His tale was the stuff of fantasy: rescued from homelessness at age 10, given shelter and self-esteem by strangers, and presented with a new life that once seemed destined for aimless tragedy when his biological mother abandoned him. He even had the Cambridge street he lived on named after him. That tale, inspiring and incredible, has taken a shockingly tawdry twist. His adoptive mother wants the street, Rumeal Robinson Place, stripped of its name and rededicated to her late husband. And she wants a mural of her son, placed in honor near the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School fieldhouse, purged of his glory-days image. Helen Ford, incredulous and embittered, alleges that Robinson swindled her of the sprawling old home wher

Hundreds of animal cruelty charges filed against NJ couple who allegedly had dozens of cats. Hundreds of animal cruelty charges have been filed against a New Jersey couple accused of allowing dozens of cats to live in deplorable conditions.

Maya Moore, UConn team are top preseason vote-getters among Big East coaches. Connecticut forward Maya Moore, the Big East's top player the last two seasons, was the coaches' choice as the league's preseason player of the year on Thursday.

Which team are you rooting for in the Series? In Jersey, it depends on what exit you're from. When the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees meet in the World Series on Wednesday, New Jersey will be a state of divided loyalties.

Even in corruption-as-usual New Jersey, recent stings color local elections. Did you hear the one about the best way to identify public officials in New Jersey? Check for the handcuff marks on their wrists.

Biographical details on candidates for New Jersey governor. Biographical details on the candidates for New Jersey governor:

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) - An independent candidate stressing New Jersey's economic woes is attracting surprising voter support in the governor's race, which features an unpopular Democratic incumbent and a Republican challenger with ties to former President George W. Bush.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) - An independent candidate stressing New Jersey's economic woes is attracting surprising voter support in the governor's race, which features an unpopular Democratic incumbent and a Republican challenger with ties to former President George W. Bush.

Seton Hall University basketball player suspended from team after being charged with DWI. A Seton Hall University basketball player has been suspended indefinitely from the team after police charged he was under the influence when he drove the wrong way on the Garden State Parkway and collided with another car.

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WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - New York City leads a list of cash-strapped cities and states that have submitted claims for nearly $1 billion from bankrupt financial firm Lehman Brothers Holding Inc, according to court documents.

Even in death, even at his graveside, the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy continued to shape his legacy with words of his own. As family members huddled in the fading glow of an August evening, Cardinal Theodore A. McCarrick read aloud a poignant exchange of letters between the dying senator and the pope, and now, days later, historians and theologians and bloggers galore are poring over the words, trying to determine just what they say about the faith of one of the nation's most controversial Catholics, and how that Catholic was perceived by the faith's spiritual leader. Scholars generally agree that Kennedy's letter to Pope Benedict XVI, which had remained secret from the time of its delivery July 10 until the time it was read aloud at his burial Saturday, revealed a man eager to explain how he reconciled his public actions with his private beliefs, and hungry for the prayers and support of his church. The response, in turn, revealed the top echelon of the church to be far less confli

Even in death, even at his graveside, the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy continued to shape his legacy with words of his own. As family members huddled in the fading glow of an August evening, Cardinal Theodore A. McCarrick read aloud a poignant exchange of letters between the dying senator and the pope, and now, days later, historians and theologians and bloggers galore are poring over the words, trying to determine just what they say about the faith of one of the nation's most controversial Catholics, and how that Catholic was perceived by the faith's spiritual leader. Scholars generally agree that Kennedy's letter to Pope Benedict XVI, which had remained secret from the time of its delivery July 10 until the time it was read aloud at his burial Saturday, revealed a man eager to explain how he reconciled his public actions with his private beliefs, and hungry for the prayers and support of his church. The response, in turn, revealed the top echelon of the church to be far less confli

WASHINGTON Before Nevada had Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at the center of the nations health care debate it had Pat McCarran, a Democratic senator from an earlier era who left an enduring mark on the health care system.