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Some states have applied for a federal waiver to skip this spring's testing in schools, but New Jersey has not. Students might take the exams from home.

UpdatedSun, Jan 31, 2021 at 9:48 am ET Reply(1) Have you seen Buddy? (Courtesy Patricia Wright.) MATTITUCK, NY — Buddy, a black cat from Mattituck who's won hearts around the neighborhood, went missing Monday — and his owner is desperate to get him home before the coming snowstorm and brutally cold temperatures. According to a Neighbor Post on Patch by Patricia Wright, Buddy is a male; he went missing from Wavecrest Lane at the crossroad of Reeve Road in the Saltaire Estates community in Mattituck. Buddy, she said, "never misses a meal and was not fond of the cold. We are desperately look...

Credit: NJTV News File photo A decade ago, New Jersey made national news when then-Gov. Chris Christie signed a law adding more student-centered data to how teachers were evaluated each year. One measure was tied to state test scores, the other to academic performance in the classroom. But in doing so, the state and its public schools entered into what was always the trickiest — and most controversial — part of the teacher quality equation, and over the years, those weights have been slowly whittled from the calculations. On Monday, the state marked a new chapter when Gov. Phil Murphy rel...

Full of cyanide. >> anthony: is the cyanide not a problem for them? >> patricia: they can tolerate all kinds of cyanide. the cyanide comes straight through in the, uh, poop. >> darren: do they know how they get it through their system? >> patricia: we're working on that. >> darren: okay. what is the dew on the outside of it? just dew? >> patricia: ah, careful. >> darren: oh don't touch. >> patricia: how's your finger feeling? >> darren: it felt a little sharp, but like a fuzzy sharpness, but then it didn't -- >> patricia: yeah, a fuzzy sharpness. you just wait a bit. >> anthony: yeah, it's lik...

Right next to me, can you see him? >> darren: right here. >> anthony: oh wow. >> patricia: oh, he's really right next to me. hello. >> anthony: the area provides essential habitat for the golden bamboo lemur. a species dr. wright discovered here in 1986. and the greater bamboo lemur, previously thought extinct. >> patricia: there's only 500 of these in the wild in the whole world. >> anthony: wow, really? what's the biggest pressure on the population? >> patricia: slash and burn agriculture. some places they're hunted. >> darren: here, no, this guy. >> patricia: oh. he is, oh, look at it. oh, ...