Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan is in critical condition after his limo bus was involved in a six-car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike early Saturday morning, according to state police. One person was killed and four others are in critical condition.

The body of a missing New Jersey woman was found Wednesday in a shallow grave, where police say she was buried alive by her landscaper and another man.

A man accidentally shot and killed his 11-year-old nephew on Saturday as he demonstrated the laser sight on one of his guns by pointing it at the boy's head.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has appointed John J. Degnan, a Democratic ex-attorney general of the state, to run the Port Authority. Degnan replaces David Samson, who resigned after ending up embroiled in the Christie administration's Bridgegate scandal.

A New Jersey woman says the state discriminated against her on the basis of her beliefs when it rejected her request for a license plate reading "8THEIST" as "objectionable."

If you live in New York City and smelled smoke this morning, don't worry, your building probably isn't on fire: Late Sunday and early Monday, smoke from a forest fire in New Jersey wafted into parts of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Brooklyn

New Jersey’s Star-Ledger is creatively destroying the jobs of 167 employees, 40 of whom worked as editors, reporters, and photographers. “The newsroom is not unionized,” the paper’s own report states.

Early Friday morning, a fire broke out at a motel on the Jersey Shore, killing four people and injuring eight. Ten people remain unaccounted for, though officials said they may have escaped before the blaze.

Unilever, the parent company of Dove soap was surprised to learn this week that New Jersey residents don't like references to their state's role as the armpit of America.

Dozens of people were arrested today for operating an international crime ring that stole luxury SUVs in New York and New Jersey, many in carjackings, then resold them in West Africa.

New Jersey prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against a 30-year-old man facing years in prison after a previously undisclosed dash cam video surfaced depicting the responding police officers breaking several laws.

Bruce the yak is a 3-year-old yak from Boonton, NJ who fell through the ice into a duck pond on Wednesday. Tina Krawczyk, manager of Brookhollow's Barnyard (where Bruce lives), noticed his horns sticking up amongst the ducks.

This afternoon, Chris Christie was booed by a crowd at a Super Bowl event in Times Square. He is probably not looking forward to being in front of crowds right now.

Hey, remember when we said that Bridgeghazi meant Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was either a vengeful asshole or entirely incompetent? According to the Port Authority official at the center of the controversy, he's a vengeful asshole. And he's still lying to reporters and residents.

New Jersey mayor Dawn Zimmer revealed that the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withheld Sandy relief money for Hoboken on MSNBC's Up with Steve Kornacki this Saturday.

A New Jersey woman watched her husband bleed out from a gunshot wound for nearly half an hour, according to 911 calls from the fatal Short Hills mall carjacking released this week.

"Mistakes were clearly made," New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said of Bridgeghazi/Bridgegate in his State of the State address this afternoon. Yes, benevolence and competence can be really difficult sometimes. As can the avoidance of clichés and the passive voice.

In his marathon Bridgehazi therapy session/press conference last week, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie insisted he hadn't met with David Wildstein, the official who caused traffic problems in Fort Lee, "in a long time, a long time, well before the election." Like, say, when they hung out during the traffic jam.

Three days after the release of dozens of emails and text messages implicating key aides of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in a crackpot scheme to deliberately engineer a traffic jam in Fort Lee, New Jersey, a very interesting puzzle remains unsolved. Who, exactly, texted David Wildstein, Christie’s high school classmate and close aide, that he or she was “smiling” about the Fort Lee traffic jam (but also felt bad about schoolchildren affected by it)?

A peculiar thing about New Jersey governor Chris Christie's marathon bridge-scandal press conference yesterday was that the longer his performance sprawled on, the smaller it got. The governor apologized and said he took the blame for the fact that his underlings had—without his knowledge—intentionally clogged traffic in Fort Lee. But he put his greatest effort into litigating the minutiae of the case.