Chris Christie, the loudmouth prick who was deemed too fat to be vice president, has been re-elected as the governor of New Jersey.

One year ago today, Superstorm Sandy devastated large swaths of New York and New Jersey, killing hundreds and doing billions of dollars of damage. Here, AP photographers who were on the scene during the storm and its aftermath return to the subjects of their 2012 photographs to see how reconstruction has progressed.

Halloween is a special time when drunken adults dressed as horrifying clowns start crashing their cars and freaking people out down at the McDonald's. Over the next 10 days, hundreds of scary clowns will be arrested nationwide for all kinds of terrible behavior. When a person decides to be an evil clown for Halloween, they are basically planning on being arrested.

Just after midnight on Monday, dozens of of gay couples across New Jersey were married, including seven who were wed at Newark's city hall by Mayor and Senator-elect Cory Booker.

Same-sex marriages in New Jersey are scheduled to begin Monday at 12:01 a.m. Though the process has been plagued with bureaucratic difficulties, mayors in Newark, Jersey City, Asbury Park and Lambertville plan to open City Halls late Sunday and marry couples as soon as they're able.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker is now Senator Cory Booker.

Newark Mayor and wannabe Senator Cory Booker—the man who refused tell a stripper he wanted to suck her boobs—is often accused of being gay, most recently by an aid to his Republican opponent Steve Lonegan.

A top aide to Republican New Jersey Senate candidate Steve Lonegan suggested yesterday that Lonegan's opponent, Cory Booker, is gay. Why? Because Booker didn't tell a smokin' hot stripper that he wanted to suck her boobs, of course.

The New York Times is shining (a lot of) light on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s involvement in the handling several dozen indictments—all of which were later mysteriously dismissed by the state’s attorney general Paula Dow—against Deborah Trout, the former Sheriff of Hunterdon County in west-central New Jersey and prominent Christie supporter.

Good news for the long-suffering food shoppers of Newark: a Whole Foods is coming to town. The bad news: the store will be located in Newark.

There have been reports of gunshots at Princeton University's Nassau Hall. University officials say no one is hurt but they have set up a perimeter around the building. Students are reporting via Twitter that the helicopters are now leaving and that it doesn't seem to be an "active shooter" situation.

The man who died last week after setting himself on fire on Washington D.C.'s National Mall has been identified as John Constantino, a 64-year-old resident of New Jersey. An attorney representing Constantino's family released a statement saying his motives weren't political, but instead were the result of “a long battle with mental illness.”

A New Jersey man enjoys resembling Bill Cosby. "He is a big fan of Jell-O too."

Cory Booker wants to be a senator so bad. But a string of disturbances—including Booker’s Twitter-flirting with a Portland stripper—have finally caught up to the ambitious Newark mayor: Booker’s lead over Republican Steve Lonegan, once as wide as the Hudson River, now sits between 12 and 3 percent. So Mike Bloomberg, having nothing better to do with his time or money, is bankrolling a pro-Booker ad campaign. Who said Cory Booker spent too much time in Manhattan?

Citing the Supreme Court's United States vs. Windsor decision and state equal rights laws, a New Jersey judge has ruled that the state must allow gay marriage. Superior Court Judge Mary Jacobson ordered state officials to start officiating same-sex marriages on October 21.

A New Jersey judge who has been moonlighting as a comedian for the past two decades has been forced to abandon his bench after the State Supreme Court ruled this week that his comedy career was "incompatible with the Code of Judicial Conduct."

The devastating fire that destroyed four blocks of the Jersey Shore boardwalk last week was caused by a problem in an electrical vault, and not arson or a discarded cigarette. The vault's wiring was damaged by water and sand during Hurricane Sandy, according to state officials.

A huge fire ripped through the Jersey Shore boardwalk Thursday night, destroying dozens of businesses along a four-block stretch in Seaside Park and Seaside Heights, two of the areas devastated during last year's Hurricane Sandy.

A fire that began around 2:15 p.m. EST at Kohr’s Ice Cream in Seaside Park, New Jersey has now spread to other boardwalk buildings and escalated into a six-alarm blaze. These buildings include the Funtown Amusement Pier building, notable for surviving the devastation Hurricane Sandy.

Late last week, officials from Wall Township, New Jersey announced they'd discovered that a male fifth grader had a hit list of 40 classmates he'd fantasized about killing in a mass-casualty attack. Authorities say they don't think the 11-year-old could've carried out the elaborate plot, but still plan to file unspecified charges against the juvenile.