An Irvington man who police linked to five auto thefts in Hillside this month was arrested after he allegedly rammed a police vehicle during a lengthy pursuit, authorities said today.

A baby girl born at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth is believed to be the first baby to arrive in New Jersey in 2011.

Three people were shot in the city's West Ward tonight, but their injuries did not appear life-threatening, police said.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A New York senator says new Republican support for the 9/11 health bill may enable its passage before the current congressional session ends.

As she walked through the door, Sabrina Parker's big hazel eyes flared with surprise and she raised a hand to her mouth to stifle a gasp. She was a huge fan of the "Twilight" book and movie series, and her friends and family had transformed this greasy garage into a Sweet 16's dream.

A helicopter rescue crew airlifted five people from a sinking fishing boat off the Alaska coast, the Coast Guard said.

A huge winter storm was affecting the West Coast on Sunday, poised to dump up to 10 feet of snow in some higher elevations, and causing flooding and potential mudslides in lower spots while impacting driving conditions and air travel, forecasters said.

At least 23 people were killed and 51 injured after an oil pipeline exploded Sunday morning in central Mexico, officials said.

(CNN) -- Jeff Peterson and his 30 volunteer comrades with the Community Fire Department in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina, were enjoying an early Christmas dinner Sunday afternoon when someone looked out a window and saw smoke, thinking it might be a car fire.

(CNN) -- A test of the United States' only long-range missile defense system failed Wednesday -- the second failure this year in two tries.

London (CNN) -- WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was granted bail by a London court Thursday, meaning he is free to leave jail until his next scheduled court hearing in January.

New York (CNN) -- Federal agents have joined police in their investigation into the discovery of four female bodies found near a Long Island, New York, beach, according to Suffolk County Police Commissioner Richard Dormer.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Temperatures were slowly warming Thursday across the South, where freezing rain glazed roads with ice, but a sprawling winter storm system remained in place across the upper Plains states.

Police said Thursday that they don't believe apparently explosive devices discovered in a New Haven home were intended to be used for terrorism.

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SOUTH ORANGE - A Seton Hall academic building was evacuated after a heater caused a small fire Tuesday night, according to TheSetonian.com.

LAMBERTVILLE - It wasn't the clanking of chains in the reportedly-haunted former Lambertville High School that attracted attention, it was the clanging of pipes because six people had apparently converged on the closed building to tear out copper pipes and wires, police reported today.

LONDON - A member of the U.K. parliament's Defense Committee has confirmed that his Russian assistant is facing deportation as a suspected spy.

The legal fight over California's gay marriage ban went before a federal appeals court Monday in a hearing that reached a nationwide TV audience anxious for a final decision on whether the measure violates the U.S. Constitution.