A look at the rise and fall of a professional wrestling sex symbol.

A podcast about crime, redemption, identity, legacy…and the other airplane hijacker in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001.

A column about the man believed to be the oldest mayor in America, who would rather talk about baseball than his age.

This investigation uncovered the laissez-faire attitude displayed by New Jersey state and local education officials that has led to egregious violations of the laws governing school bus safety, particularly among private bus contractors. Our team found cases of known drug users, unlicensed drivers and, in one case, a convicted sex offender driving a school bus — all against state law.

As (the first wave of) COVID-19 cases hit their peak in New Jersey, my team spent hours interviewing dozens of hospital workers — from chiefs and internists to nurses, janitors and security guards — about what life was really like during the pandemic.

I wrote this column in between bouts of chills and fever, while wasting away on my couch suffering from COVID-19. I contracted the novel coronavirus shortly after the pandemic became real in March 2020, when it was still a foreign concept to a lot of people. I wanted to illustrate just how serious the virus is — even to relatively young and healthy people like me.

A haunted house. A fire. Eight teenagers. And a legacy rooted in tragedy.

Joey Janela, the self-proclaimed “Asbury Park Bad Boy,” became a pro wrestling superstar based on nothing but his wits and that time he got thrown off a roof.

And just when things seemed like they couldn’t get any better? He blew his knee out.

If one night in the suburbs of Trenton is to be believed, marijuana legalization wouldn’t start a new cannabis industry. It would just legitimize it.

Even after the theft of more than $1 million in recent years, weak laws and poor oversight of youth sports organizations remain in place, enabling the next set of thieves to steal from parents and young children.

For the Wilsons, medical marijuana had transformed Dravet Syndrome from a life-altering disease into a manageable one.

New Jersey had an estimated 101 million visitors last year, many of whom can take a day trip to the Jersey Shore to lay on the beach, stroll the boardwalk, eat a zeppole — or get high without fear of the police if marijuana is legalized in the Garden State.

As New Jersey inched closer toward legalizing marijuana for recreational purposes, the Asbury Park Press sent a team to the west coast to report back with an eyewitness view of how legal weed had changed these states — and what would happen in New Jersey if the Garden State was next in line.

How a New Jersey ex-con violated his probation, flew to Syria, fought IS and — somehow — lived to tell the tale. Or at least part of it.

“Give me the worst possible route – horrible conditions, bad parking, gunshots, whatever it might be.”

I spent the tail end of last week holed up inside a Hilton hotel in Newark, wondering where it all went wrong.

As Joy Lippincott aged and slipped into dementia, she increasingly depended on a small group of people to manage her affairs, including her two daughters, a lawyer and an accountant who, $850,000 later, was labeled an “absolute scoundrel.”