Veterans Day honors active and former US service members annually on November 11, the anniversary of the end of World War I.

Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died. She was 81.

One firefighter was killed while battling a fire in Passaic County, one of more than 40 reports of brush fires in New Jersey alone on Saturday.