It's just three nights after the premiere of the slick, vivacious new Broadway musical Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, but already the audience at the August Wilson Theatre on West 52nd Street dresses like the crowds you'd see in the fifth year of Mamma Mia! Tight-fitting tops, carefully pomaded hair, ostentatious gold neckwear ... and the women look pretty gaudy too. I mention this not because I'm a dress-code martinet , but to indicate that ...

A New Jersey man has been charged with murder in the slaying of a Roman Catholic priest who was found dead in the church rectory with wounds, the chief prosecutor said Saturday.Chatham Borough police had 50 to 100 officers and detectives investigating the case, according to Bianchi. Hinds, the parish's pastor, also oversaw the church's Catholic grade school. "When you're the sole pastor and you do most of the baptisms and weddings and funerals, people end up loving you. This ...

A security guard at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport is under arrest for allegedly making threatening remarks about President Obama, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday. John Brek, 55, of Linden, New Jersey, was arrested Tuesday and charged with making terroristic threats, Port Authority spokesman John Kelly said. A search of Brek's home turned up at least 40 firearms, Kelly said, all of which appear to be legally owned. U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said ...

As with many jokes, it started with a small jab at the expense of New Jersey. The gags continued Monday night when "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien ventured into "the biggest scandal in the country that's now involving a late-night host." O'Brien was, of course, referring to his continuing comical conflict with the city of Newark, New Jersey, and its mayor, Cory Booker. It all began on September 23, when O'Brien, in his nightly comical spiel, joked that Booker's plan ...

Australia's Cadel Evans finally landed one of cycling's big prizes as he claimed the world road race championship title in Switzerland on Sunday. Evans escaped a whittled down leading group on the final climb of the marathon 262.2 kilometer test to cross the line 27 seconds clear of the chasers. Alexandr Kolobnev of Russia outsprinted Spain's Joaquin Rodriguez in a sprint finish for second place. But there was no fairytale finish for Swiss hero Fabian Cancellara, who was in the ...

How does it feel? To be on your own? A complete unknown? Bob Dylan might know. The rock legend was stopped in July by police in Long Branch, New Jersey, who were responding to a call about a suspicious person roaming the neighborhood, police said. According to Long Branch Police Department Sgt. Michael Ahart, Dylan had been peering into a window of a house that was for sale, which prompted a neighbor to call the police on July 23. One ...

Every year about this time, bluefish school off the New Jersey shore. For fishermen in the right spot, it's often a stunning abundance of fortune. One minute they're waiting patiently for a bite, and the next they can hook a bluefish with live bait, lures, a piece of baloney on a hook. The fish just can't help themselves. Federal agents must have felt like those fishermen during the investigation that eventually took down 44 people in one of the largest ...

The New Jersey officials and their associates charged in a federal probe of public corruption exchanged hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in parking lots, restaurants, boiler rooms and bathrooms, an acting U.S. attorney said Thursday. The investigation netted 44 defendants -- 29 on corruption charges and 15 for alleged money laundering, acting U.S. Attorney Ralph Marra Jr. said at a news conference. Defendants were to begin appearing Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Newark. Among the 15 ...

The death of a spectator overshadowed an intriguing 14th stage of the Tour de France which saw Rinaldo Nocentini desperately cling on to the leader's yellow jersey in cycling's premier event. A woman died after being hit by a police motorcycle on Saturday afternoon in Wittelsheim, a village in Alsace in northeastern France which is 40 kilometers from the start of the race's leg from Colmar to Besancon. French police told CNN that two other people were injured and taken ...