SVETLANA SHKOLNIKOVA

Every four years, around the time the World Cup kicks off, attendance at Harrison High School takes a dive. "Tremendous absenteeism,” said Mike Dolaghan, a t...

The only visible sign of the trauma Brendan O’Callaghan lived through nearly two weeks ago is the twitch of his right eye. The purple under his left eye has ...

East Brook Middle School was a place of quiet on Friday. There was a quiet room, “a safe space,” for students to regroup, another quiet room for staff to col...

The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle is not expected to commence until 7 a.m. Eastern Time on Saturday, but Virginia Bosler of Glen Rock will have h...

Gina Krieger and Sarah Strate follow the same routine every weekday. At 9 a.m., they arrive at the Quest Autism Program in Midland Park for a day of work and...

Fred and Margaret, of Clifton, died one month apart this winter. The couple, whose last name their children asked to protect, met in high school and were mar...

An hour into their two-hour practice at the Mackay Park ice rink, three members of the city high school’s new girls’ ice hockey club took a break. “I feel li...

The storied history of the Ice House in Hackensack is written on its walls. Signed posters of Olympic figure skating champions Tara Lipinski and Oksana Baiul...

When Anita Hill stepped into the spotlight 26 years ago to accuse then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, she faced a skeptical all-...

Gracie Straub, a 12-year-old from Leonia, typically sends more than 100 text messages to her friends and family on her iPhone by the time she goes to bed at ...

In 1894, the Mickel family and the rowdy tavern they owned and tended along Bergen Boulevard determined the boundary between the dry borough of Leonia and wh...

The man identified this week as the eighth person in the room at the June 2016 meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives offering dirt on Hil...

Russian pop star Emin Agalarov wore black leather, drove a souped-up moped and wanted to be the next Elvis Presley, having spent his teenage years living lar...

Huda Shalabi cracked her first case at just 10 years old. A marble cutting machine had been stolen from her family’s backyard, and police, citing a lack of w...

About a dozen undergraduates gathered on a recent Tuesday in a second floor classroom of the Center for Academic Success at Kean University to talk about the...

Frustrated state lawmakers grilled top officials from Amtrak and NJ Transit about the state of the trans-Hudson rail system Friday, demanding answers for rec...

It takes patience to find the perfect egg. A flawless one must have no cracks or fractures, and it must be opaque, blocking any light that is held up to it. ...

When youth baseball returns to Edgewater's Veterans Field on Saturday, nearly three dozen girls will suit up with the boys ready to play ball. In doing so, t...

For every girl born in Russia today, so are 1.06 boys. The gender ratio at birth is consistent with the international average of 1.07 boys for every girl, bu...