A brutal, bloody hunt. A ghastly, devastating attack. And a state left divided on what to do about its 2,500 black bears.

How New Jersey’s first coronavirus patient survived.

A family stops at a Jersey travel plaza on the way to a New York medical center.

Can one agonizing defeat destroy a life?

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

“My dad’s whole idea was to do an amusement park differently, not where you just got strapped in and twisted around, but one where you controlled what was going on. You can have an awesome time, but you can also hurt yourself if you don’t use good judgment.”

Wikipedia entry for “Traction Park,” central New Jersey’s most dangerous mid-1980’s amusement park.

A bitter legal row over a mosque in an affluent New Jersey town shows the new face of Islamophobia in the age of Trump.

A trip down America’s most haunted road.

On the mechanics of New Jersey state politics.

A dispatch from Camden, “America’s most desperate town.”

Remembering the indie rock club that The New York Times once said was “so New York that it’s in New Jersey.”

A gay freshman at Rutgers, a spying roommate, and the trial that followed.

Update 3/16/12: The roommate, Dharun Ravi, has been found guilty of hate crimes.

On “American Dream,” a mall under construction in New Jersey that will be the largest on Earth and feature an indoor skiing slope, a tropical area modeled on Hawaii, and a “TV screen that will make Times Square seem like a rec room from the seventies.”

On the complete corruption of Paul Bergin, a federal attorney turned high-priced defense lawyer now awaiting trial on a host of charges.

If Paul is guilty of half the things they say, he’d be the craziest, most evil lawyer in the history of the State of New Jersey. That is saying something.

A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?