A Hopatcong man told police he was the president looking speak to Tim Tebow before officers found him hiding under pillows and clothes in his mom's closet, police said. Jason Slater, 28, called 911 three times late June 10, refusing to give the dispatcher information each time, police said. Then he called the Hopatcong police department's main line, saying he was the president and he wanted to talk with Tebow, the New York Jets' backup quarterback, police said. Officer David Kraus traced the call to Slater's home, police said. But when officers arrived, and Slater's mother gave them …

The last time Joan McCormack read to Danielle Kovach's class, in January, she read about Martin Luther King Jr. "Which is ironic," Kovach said. "Because [King] was also reflection of Mrs. McCormack. So loving. So peaceful. It was a fitting way for her … we didn't know it would be the last book she would read to my students." McCormack, a librarian in the Hopatcong school district for 27 years, died at Morristown Memorial Hospital on May 16. She was 79. Kovach's third-grade special-education class will honor McCormack for her service 2 p.m. Thursday at Tulsa Trail School. The 12 students will …