My friend Jay.
He went from class president to drug dealer, then dead at 16. My desperate, personal search for answers.
Christopher Kelly
Director, News Innovation, Topics and Features, NJ.com. Writer-at-large, Texas Monthly. Author, husband, dad, inveterate fresh pasta maker.
N.J. was primed for a pandemic (and it could happen again)
The same pathways that make New Jersey accessible to New York and the world allowed the coronavirus to spread here like wildfire.
24 Hours in Crisis
The battle against the coronavirus is testing New Jersey in every imaginable way. A special report by NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The Day That Changed Everything
They lost N.J.’s biggest high school football game. Can one defeat ruin a life?
Rutgers softball players say they were physically, emotionally abused by wife-husband coaching team and school did nothing
The alleged abuse was disclosed by seven former Rutgers players and five parents.
Gone at 15
More N.J. teens are killing themselves in a crisis nobody was prepared for
Springsteen x 70
If you are a diehard Bruce Springsteen fan, welcome to your new favorite podcast. As the rock icon celebrates his 70th birthday, NJ.com music critic Bobby Olivier breaks down The Boss’s 70 greatest songs of all time.
9 ex-athletes from a top N.J. school have died since 2014. Why?
More than a dozen interviews with Don Bosco officials, family members of the deceased and former athletes from the school do little to explain the numbers.
Cory Booker’s brother opened a school so bad it got shut down. N.J. just gave him a $150K education job
“The only reason he got that job is his brother.”
Joyce
One elephant’s incredible rescue from slaughter and unforgettable journey to peace
My mother found out her father wasn't her father from a DNA test — and it's all my fault
For all her life, my mother has loved being Irish.
252 days.
One mother's fight to get her daughter home
Changing Habits
Millennial women don't become nuns. These women did.
‘Good … for a girl’
How sexual harassment pervades N.J.’s music scene
The Dos and Don'ts at the Jersey Shore - YouTube
Five Sins of New Jersey Drivers - YouTube
The Italian bakery explained
A guide to every cookie, pastry and dessert
The man who directed 'La La Land' is a 32-year-old wunderkind from N.J.
If all the glitzy awards season buzz pans out Sunday night in Los Angeles, a 32-year-old man from New Jersey will become the youngest best director winner in Oscar history.
