Big, big news: Yesterday residents of southern New Jersey felt the earth beneath them shake for an estimated 15 seconds. The event created chaos in the area, causing one resident's dog to whelp twice and another's basement door to rattle violently. Both the U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service say that there was no earthquake in there area, and allegations of a sonic boom have been squashed by a local military base spokesman.

Critics of Obama are tired of being called racist just because they disapprove of the President. You might say the solution to that would be to not use racist rhetoric and imagery in so many attacks, but then, you would be "pulling the race card."

Two Pathmark employees were shot and killed early this morning in Old Bridge, New Jersey, by a disgruntled coworker who then took his own life, the township's mayor said.

Patricia "Tan Mom" Krentcil, best known for looking like beef jerky and being charged earlier this year for child endangerment when authorities suspected that she took her 5-year-old tanning, appeared onstage during XL's Wednesday night drag show. Obliterated, she gave the gays the mess they were obviously craving when they showed up to see her in the first place.

Prosecutors in New Jersey have accused Voorhees police officer Jeffery Tyther of abusing his power after he allegedly used a law enforcement database to learn personal information about a passing female driver so he could stalk her on Facebook.

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If you are a human being with a television and a heart, you have seen a commercial advertising Google Chrome and you have cried over it.

Several states are reporting deaths, power outages, and record-breaking temperatures as summer storms ravage the Mid-Atlantic area of the country.

It's been a pretty crazy week to be skin. One man ate another man's skin off his face. The skin of a foot (and also the other parts of a foot that comprise an entire foot) was mailed to Canadian governmental headquarters. Rose Byrne's skin is dry, dry, so, so dry.

Dharun Ravi, the 20-year-old Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidating and privacy invasion in the Tyler Clementi webcam peep case, has been sentenced to a relatively scant 30-day jail term, The Newark Star-Ledger reports.

At home in Nutley, New Jersey, Tanning Mom Petricia Krentcil is living like a regular starlet. Here she is cavorting for the paparazzi, braless and with her clothing askew.

Posted on Chris Christie's YouTube account after premiering at the New Jersey Press Association's Legislative Correspondents Club Show yesterday, this comedy sketch featuring the Garden State governor and his archnemesis, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, is not half bad.

Elementary school standardized tests are quickly becoming arid wastelands of proper procedure rather than the lush, experimental adult imaginariums the test writers would like them to be.

The town of Fort Lee, New Jersey, has begun issuing tickets to people caught walking and texting after some 20 people have been struck by cars since the start of 2012.

In New Jersey this morning, two construction workers sustained burns after one of them fell into a tank of nitric acid from 40 feet above, and the other jumped in to save him.

The National Christmas Tree planted near the White House one year ago has already died because you didn't love it enough.

Patricia Krentcil (pictured), a 44 year-old mom in Nutley, New Jersey, has been arrested for allegedly taking her five year-old daughter into a tanning booth with her, giving the child a "pretty severe sunburn."

While Whitney Houston's funeral was invite-only, all of the citizens of Newark will end up contributing more than they realized. The city will have to pay its police force $187,000 in overtime.

Following his conviction in the webcam spy scandal that preceded gay Rutgers student Tyler Clementi's suicide, Dharun Ravi has broken his silence. "Energized" by the verdict, Ravi plans to fight his conviction. He maintains that he didn't commit a hate crime, and adds that he doesn't think he contributed to Clementi's death. "I was an insignificant part of his life," Ravi tells 20/20's Chris Cuomo in an interview that will air tonight. "That's what's giving me comfort now."

"Nice Hair, Claire?" Stop Right There! See Me Reach? Aw Gee, Teach! No More Touchin' While You're Lunchin'! Principal's Principle Deserves Ridicule: No Caresses for Classmate's Tresses! Grinch Puts the Cinch on Friendly Clench. Pity the Itty-Bitty Kiddies. "Cuddle at Home, You Snuggling Gnomes! School Is Where Knowledge Is Grown, Not Your Bone! No More 'Likes,' You Porny Tykes! Tween Wet Dreams Should Remain Unseen. I Know You're Grinding Whilst Intertwining! Don't Be Petting While You're Still Bed-Wetting. Hands to Yourself, You Miscreant Whelps! Doing Drugs? Fine, But No Hugs!"