Courier-Post

The Black Horse Pike regional school board approved a controversial redistricting plan at a tumultuous meeting on Thursday night. Full Story »

Senators passed a bill Thursday that would give judges leeway to waive enhanced prison sentences now required for selling drugs within 1,000 feet of a school and could free some nonviolent offenders from state prisons. Full Story »

Gov.-elect Chris Christie on Thursday defended his decision to go along with New Jersey's sale of more than $1.2 billion in bonds to pay for already approved transportation projects, saying it does not go against his promise to rein in state borrowing. Full Story »

The Camden County Improvement Authority closed out its year Thursday with the resignation of Chairman James B. Full Story »

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted the former township administrator of Lumberton for alleged corruption in his separate role as an Ocean County assemblyman. Full Story »

Residents are eligible to pay much lower tuition to attend a public college in the Garden State. Out-of-state students often pay tuition several times higher to attend the same school. Full Story »

The boom of cannon and the crack of musket fire will reverberate through downtown streets Saturday during the re-enactment of a Revolutionary War battle critical to George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River and his subsequent victory at the... Full Story »

A robber struck two banks here within an hour on Thursday, making off with money from one. Full Story »

Two Camden County women have been indicted on felony murder charges in connection with the death of a Winslow man. Full Story »

When you spend your days surrounded by children, as Cheri Yanzuk does, you know how delighted children are by things that move, shine, or if it's just a little baby doll. Full Story »

Passersby on Broadway this week might have seen a young man perched on a ladder, painting a winter landscape on a parking garage window. Full Story »

Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights that begins at sundown tonight, is a minor holiday celebrated with family get-togethers, potato latkes, jelly doughnuts and gifts. Full Story »

Newly enshrined among the world's great peacemakers, President Barack Obama offered a striking defense of war. Full Story »

Chabad Lubavitch of Camden and Burlington Counties, a Jewish outreach organization, wants to raise the public profile of the Festival of Lights. Full Story »

The state needs to come up with a new pay scale that puts state prosecutors on par with other public lawyers because the salary situation is nearing a crisis, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram told lawmakers Thursday. Full Story »

Democratic leaders said Thursday they remain hopeful a gay marriage bill will get through the New Jersey Legislature, even after sponsors hastily pulled the measure from the day's Senate agenda rather than see it defeated. Full Story »

A Greenwich man was convicted Thursday of possessing nearly three-quarters of an ounce of cocaine with the intent to distribute. Full Story »

Swine flu has sickened about 50 million Americans, and killed about 10,000, according to new estimates released by federal health officials on Thursday. Full Story »

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey Gov.-elect Chris Christie Full Story »

A 59-year-old North Jersey man was behind bars on Wednesday, accused of stabbing his wife 47 times to death with a boning knife at their Sussex County home, police said. Full Story »

State senators have postponed a potential landmark vote that had been planned for today on legislation that would grant gay couples the right to marry in New Jersey, with the proposal's fate far from certain. Full Story »

The New Jersey Education Department has denied a financial appeal from the Freedom Academy Charter School to repay $415,938 in aid for violating state regulations. Full Story »

A day after Jon Stewart, the Jersey-born host of the popular "Daily Show" on Comedy Central took a shot at Camden, several city officials took the opportunity Tuesday night to fire back. Full Story »

Beneath a chain-link fence hanging on a wall and urban street lights, teens flooded Wednesday into The Corner -- a new 1,245-square-foot space in the M. Allan Vogelson Regional Branch Library. Full Story »

You may have a family of your own, but you may still have the generosity of spirit to adopt one. And it's not difficult to do. Full Story »