Seton Hall University

Graduation ceremonies What: Northern State University graduation. When: 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Where: Barnett Center on the NSU campus.  Online: The American News will livestream the graduation, including Buster Olney's speech, on AberdeenNews.com.  What:...

"Work authorization is not meant to get you rich, it's to let you live," said an Egyptian asylum-seeker who fled to the United States after a radical group beat him and tried to kidnap his wife and daughter. After fleeing persecution in their home...

IRVING, Texas — Boy Scouts of America officials are expected to announce Wednesday whether they will lift a national ban on gay leaders and members, instead giving local scouting groups the power to decide. The Scouts' national board, which has...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy nominated 15 new Superior Court judges Thursday, including prominent Republican Andrew Roraback among the familiar names in the political and legal worlds. Many people had considered Roraback the Republican Party's best chance to...

Somewhere in the third year of Tribune Co.'s marathon Chapter 11 proceeding, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Carey looked out at a Delaware courtroom packed with high-priced attorneys and conceded the case had broken down into what he called a...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y — Just before he jumps on his skeleton sled for a wild, head-first ride down an icy, mile-long chute, Bradley Chalupski lowers his helmet visor, revealing a large Star of David. Beneath the helmet is another layer: a yarmulke...

Donald Payne New Jersey's 1st black congressman Rep. Donald Payne, 77, the first African American congressman elected to represent New Jersey and a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, died Tuesday at a hospital in Livingston, N.J. He...

Robert G. Wilderotter, of Harbor Springs, died peacefully at home on Dec. 25, 2011. He was 93. Born and raised in Newark, N.J., Mr. Wilderotter was the son of the late Charles and Augusta (Hepp) Wilderotter. He was a graduate of St. Peter's Grammar...

With church membership dwindling and more families struggling to afford the cost of college, many private religiously-affiliated colleges and universities are slashing tuition and offering incentives to attract new students -- and to stay afloat. Some...

Seton Hall University is working to ease the financial burden of college. they're offering early applicants two-thirds off the regular price -- that's $21,000! But students must graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class, and have a...