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Gov. Chris Christie has told Rutgers University officials he's ready to help the athletic department respond to the string of defections that have weakened the prestige of Big East Conference and threatened the future of the state university's $58 million sports program.

Share Email Print 2 ga1101halloween FARRELL.JPGTim Farrell/The Star-LedgerZoe Boggier, age 6, sits in the family minivan waiting for Trunk or Treaters.Due to the damaged wires and power outages, the Essex Fells community gathered for a "Trunk or Treat". Pulling their cars into the St. Peter's Church parking lot and opening their trunks and allowing kids to go "trunk or treating" safely around. STATEWIDE - The outlook was grim for the tricksters. Make that horrorific!

Sunday's double shooting in the Villa Park section of the city was actually a fight between a teen gunman and the man he was trying to rob, which ended with both of them wounded when the gun went off, police said yesterday.

The Manhattan mom critically injured by a shopping cart tossed from the fourth-floor walkway of an East Harlem mall was devoted to kids like the two 12-year-olds charged yesterday with the senseless crime.

A gas station attendant was punched during a robbery Sunday night, a little more than an hour before a man was robbed with a hammer near another city filling station, police said yesterday.

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The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate on Thursday backed a measure to help bolster the housing market by making it easier for people to afford a home in wealthier neighborhoods.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ranks of the poor rose in almost all U.S. states and cities in 2010, despite the end of the longest and deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression the year before, U.S. Census data released on Thursday showed.

Don't you hate ordering something online and getting the wrong size in the mail? So does Tom Boddingham. The 6-foot-7 Londoner needs two different Caters News Agency shoe sizes: 13 for one foot and 14.5 for the other. But due to a decimal error at the Chinese factory that manufactures the slippers he ordered online, instead of getting a size 14.5, he got a size 1,450!

BEIJING (AP) - A toddler who was twice run over by vans and then ignored by passers-by on a busy market street died Friday a week after the accident and after days of bitter soul-searching over declining morality in China.

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THAL, Austria (AP) - For a day at least, Arnold Schwarzenegger could forget about his messy divorce and bask in the adulation of a sympathetic crowd.

The woman at the center of Ashton Kutcher's alleged affair has given her first interviews. Sara Leal, 22, has spoken out to both Us Weekly and the UK's The Sun newspaper, claiming she had sex with Demi Moore's husband on the stars' sixth wedding anniversary.

The French fashion house is celebrating two premieres: its first luxury concept store in the region, and its first 'Island Maison,' a multi-storey shopping location on a private island.

CALAMBA CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Filipino designer Herbert Chavez has taken his love for Superman up, up and away, undergoing cosmetic surgery to look like the Man of Steel.

ABC News' Greg Krieg reports from New York City: City officials said early this morning they will postpone a cleanup of Zuccotti Park after earlier threatening to evict Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been encamped here.

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HAMILTON - Township Democratic council candidate Daniel Keelan will hold an Irish-themed fundraiser at Killarney's Publick House tomorrow night.