High school athletics across New Jersey continue to deliver inspiring performances, community-driven initiatives, and championship-level competition as winter sports reach decisive moments and student-athletes...

As the fall sports season heats up in New Jersey, the latest Top 20 rankings and weekly results are shaking up the high school athletics landscape. Fans across the Garden State are following every upset, victory, and standout performance as teams jostle for position in football, soccer, volleyball, and cross country. These Top 20 rankings reflect recent upsets, standout performances, and rising stars, with several teams staking early claims as contenders in their respective leagues. In South Jersey football, Rancocas Valley (4-0) continues to impress with a tight 17–14 victory over Shawnee, while Cherry Hill East (4-0) remains undefeated after a commanding 50–0 win over Egg Harbor Township. Cherry Hill West (2-2) fell to Eastern 28–6, Sterling...

Students in a 200-level linguistics course have “locked in” on this year’s submissions for the American Dialect Society Word of the Year, with a slang-heavy list of entries that have been amplified and boosted by social media. “Lock in,” meaning to focus, was on the list that was considered when the society chose a winner at its meeting in Philadelphia from January 9–12. While it didn’t win the word of the year, it did win the category of “Most Useful” word of 2024. Last year’s ADS winner was “enshittification,” a term used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow to describe how digital platforms worsen over time. Some years, the submissions are more sober, such as...