Essex County

Joe Louis Clark, the New Jersey high school principal who was the inspiration for the Morgan Freeman role in the 1989 movie "Lean on Me" died on Tuesday. He was 82.

While the state's oldest high school rivalry will play on, another that's a century old is among those on pause this year, due to the pandemic.

The governor said the return in some districts to classroom learning has "worked quite well" even as more districts go all- remote through at least Thanksgiving.

Three people who were shot in two separate incidents around midnight Tuesday are all expected to survive according to Atlantic City police.

The state's "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign is being credited for getting a wanted man off of the streets of Atlantic City.

A now-divorced couple from North Jersey is suing a fertility clinic after the wrong man's sperm was used to fertilize the woman's egg.

The tense standoff was caught on body cam video, as a police officer eventually persuaded the man with Chinese food.

The Millburn man's Jeep Grand Cherokee was spotted going more than twice the speed limit on Route 95 in New Hampshire by state police.