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How Gritty emerged from the darkness to show us the way.
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A ride into infamy.
This ‘dumbass’ N.J. horse lives in college football infamy. Can the truth clear his name?
The tragedy of Sunny
Tammy Sytch was WWE’s original ‘diva.’ Inside a Jersey girl's stunning fall.
The girl who can’t be fixed
A terrified girl was in crisis. Nobody would help her for 300 days.
Your kid has terrible handwriting. Does it really matter?
In the era of email and voice-to-text dictation, will kids really need handwriting at all?
The ultimate underdog
Nobody wanted Joe Flacco. Can the king of N.J. QBs prove everyone wrong again?
The oral history of Wawa
How a store named after a town named after a goose attained cultural reverence typically reserved for the Holy Trinity of Jersey icons.
The last of its kind
This N.J. family business should be dead. Inside a rural treasure’s fight to survive.
Nights on the brink
Can a text stop a suicide? 8 hours inside an anonymous crisis hotline.
Porn and loathing in N.J.?
Sex, books and the culture wars. How parents got sued by a ‘nice’ school librarian.
A cry for help
A N.J. teen needed a therapist. He had to jump off a bridge to get one.
The lonely hearts club
Speed dating — yes, speed dating — feels new again. N.J. singles are in love with a dating relic.
How far will parents go to save depressed kids?
This N.J. teen was kidnapped and sent to wilderness therapy.
The life & death of a ‘perfect human.’
A N.J. teen’s suicide reveals the depths of a growing crisis.
Unforgivable
How a Chris Christie-Barack Obama greeting signaled the death of civility.
‘COVID babies’ aren’t talking as much as they should.
How much is the pandemic to blame?
The rise and fall of the Jersey seagull
The untold story of a formidable and notorious rebel, its unwelcome rise and impending fall.
Buried treasure
Hidden cash, wild theories and our quest to solve a viral N.J. mystery.
Saving Charlie
A suicidal teen. A broken system. A N.J. family’s desperate fight to save its son.
Postcards from the edge
N.J.’s Republican Party was left for dead after Trump. Can it reclaim the state against all odds?
The $1 million gamble
N.J.'s wild real estate boom is coming to an end. The only question is how quickly?
The children of COVID
These N.J. kids lost a young parent to COVID. They will never be the same.
A life interrupted
Their son killed himself during the pandemic. Are more N.J. teens at risk?
The kids left behind
The state failed its most vulnerable students last spring. What really happened when schools closed?
Gone at 15
More N.J. teens are killing themselves in a crisis nobody was prepared for.
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