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1. Robert Reich: Wall Street is back, but large numbers of Americans continue to have lives disrupted
(Opinion/Commentary)

... anything, it's that the bailout of Wall Street didn't trickle down to Main Street. Mortgage delinquencies continue to rise. Small businesses can't get credit. And people everywhere, it seems, are worried ...

2. Permanent Statehouse tribute to New Jerseyans serving in military under consideration
(N.J./State)

... secure and free," said Assemblyman Patrick J. Diegnan (D-Middlesex). "We have numerous memorials for the men and women who have sacrificed so much for this state and county. This memorial would give proper ...

3. New Jersey's best teams of the decade: From the Nets to St. Anthony
(Sports/Professional)

... its successor was its offense. It had the still unmatched "A" line of Jason Arnott, Petr Sykora and Patrick Elias. This Devils team could win both ways. What makes this team memorable is their comeback ...

4. Rupert Murdoch news chain allegedly used to publish forged Iranian nuke document
(World/International)

... of excessive caution left over from the CIA's having failed to brand as a fabrication the document purporting to show an Iraqi effort to buy uranium in Niger. The Washington Post's Joby Warrick dismissed ...

5. New Jerseyans divided over whether past decade was a highlight or lowlight of their lives
(Life/Style)

... began. "It's been an uneven decade for Garden State residents,'' said Patrick Murray, the poll director. "For every person who reports that their life has improved, there is another person somewhere ...

6. George Clooney delivers in ‘Up in the Air,' a slick, sophisticated comedy
(Entertainment/Movies)

... business. Her name is Natalie Keener and she's played by Anna Kendrick (she plays the girl in the Twilight movies who's far prettier than the girl every monster in the state of Washington is obsessed with). ...

7. The argument for bringing back the expiring estate tax
(Opinion/Commentary)

... do now. This crazy situation is the result of the Bush tax cuts for the super-rich, tax cuts that were supposed to lead to "trickle-down" prosperity for the rest of us. What we have seen instead is stagnation ...

8. U.S. government seized and forfeited property to be auction in New Jersey
(Money/Economy)

Everything from gold coins to flat screen TVs will be auction off to the public on Jan. 13 in Union County. VSE Corporation and Rick Levin & Associates, Inc. will conduct an auction of seized and ...

9. Dexter Strickland gets a taste of home with Rutgers playing at North Carolina
(Sports/Professional)

Former St. Patrick star making transition to college and point guard BY MIKE VORKUNOV NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM You can take the kid out of Jersey but you can't take the Jersey out of the kid. Dexter ...

10. New Jersey Turnpike toll collector Michael Yuhas sentenced to 364 days for theft
(N.J./State)

... Frederick P. DeVesa told the defendant he will not have to begin serving the jail term until December 23, 2012. By then, the judge expects the defendant to have repaid the toll money he took. The ...

11. The best of the decade in New Jersey college basketball
(Sports/Professional)

... 2003-04 season the 6-10 forward put together a fine all-around season, averaging 13.4 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.1 blocks and just under a steal a game on what was the best Rutgers team in a while. G Ricky ...

12. Report: New Jersey could save $27 billion by preventing childhood lead poisoning
(Health/Healthquest)

... when a home or apartment changes hands and a certificate of occupancy is issued. Change state regulations to allow the use of mobile finger prick testing devices that give blood lead level results in ...

13. U.S. military struggles recruiting with too few young Americans fit to serve
(U.S./Nation)

... any skill you want with them to make them a child who can succeed," Ricky Gleen said. Gleen teaches at an early childhood development school called Centro Nia in Washington. He says students drop out ...

14. Research proves New Jersey is one big, unhappy state
(Life/Style)

... survey of 1.3 million Americans. People's subjective self-assessments of happiness have been notoriously tricky to gauge objectively. In this case, though, Oswald and Wu said they correlated it with a ...

15. New Jersey weather forecast: Be prepared for this snow storm
(N.J./State)

... to protect yourself and your family from the winter elements that we sometimes encounter in our great state," said Colonel Rick Fuentes, Superintendent of the New Jersey State Police and Director of the ...

16. Prediction: Philadelphia Eagles handle San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, 1 p.m., TV: FOX
(Sports/Professional)

... on Monday Night Football. The whole country watched as Coach Mike Singletary's defense crushed bones, even forcing Kurt Warner into three turnovers. Linebackers Patrick Willis and Ahmad Brooks applied ...

17. Perhaps it’s time New Jersey starts swearing in a new Governor the day after the election
(Opinion/Commentary)

... from baseball Just what does $340,000 buy you in N.J. governor's race? Political allies don't always sing in tune Political soap opera in Albany could trickle down to Trenton Race for governor: ...

18. ‘Mary and Joseph' visit Trenton seeking affordable housing
(N.J./State)

... yet to come. Mary Bernadette Shannon, 59, of Trenton, dressed as Mary in a powder blue veil and robe, and Derrick Branch, 46, also of Trenton, dressed as Joseph in brown and green robes and carrying ...

19. Plainfield's LaShondrea Tucker sentenced in insurance scam
(N.J./State)

... to insurance fraud, a charge contained in a Dec. 18, 2008 grand jury indictment. Petrolle also sentenced Tucker's co-defendant, Louise Fedrick, 40, of Newark, to two years probation. Fedrick was also ...

20. Horton Foote’s ‘Orphans’ Home Cycle’ spins further tales about a nice guy’s journey
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  ‘The Starry Messenger' represents bad news for Matthew Broderick Afrobeat music drives Broadway's new ‘Fela!' Okay ‘Dreamgirls' visits the Apollo Theater New Broadway comedy explores Victorian ...