Jersey City NJ

Jersey City Mayor James Solomon has selected Dr. Dia Bryant, the former executive director of The Education Trust–New York. as the deputy mayor for education. “Every child in Jersey City deserves a bright future, and that starts with schools that work for our kids,” Solomon said in a statement.

NEWARK, N.J. — A former teacher in Union County was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison for receiving and possessing child pornography, according to a statement released by Senior Counsel Philip Lamparello of the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

State prosecutors allege the defendants targeted a 13-year-old girl for prostitution and sexual abuse, including the production of explicit images, in a case spanning multiple cities.

According to NJ WARN data, a total of 871 layoffs are scheduled in New Jersey, with the largest number affecting Bergen County, where 417 jobs are expected to be eliminated. Additional layoffs are listed in Passaic County, where 240 positions are impacted, followed by Monmouth County with 141 job cuts and Hudson...

One person died after a fire broke out in a Brooklyn apartment building early Thursday morning, cops and firefighters said. The unidentified victim’s lifeless body was found after the blaze ignited inside the Ocean Ave. building near Avenue W in Sheepshead Bay just before 2 a.m., police said. A...

Enormous piles of snow have come to be symbols of despair for New Yorkers this week. New Yorkers have begun to lose their patience with the weather as a deep freeze sets in. [ more › ]

Kath is mad at Zoh’s tax math. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “tax the rich” refrain is getting on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s nerves — with sources saying she views his warnings that the city faces a $12 billion budget hole as an underhanded ploy to push his socialist dreams. Hochul’s circle believes the sky-is-falling fiscal...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Thousands are expected to gather for protests across the country as part a nationwide strike against ICE on Friday. The action, called “ICE Out” comes as a response to federal agents shooting and killing Minneapolis residents Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in January. To stand in solidarity with...

New footage has helped investigators narrow down the final known whereabouts of a Long Island teen who vanished in New York City more than two weeks ago, authorities said. In an update on Wednesday, Jan. 28, the Suffolk County Police Department said that after “extensive video canvassing and review of digital...

MANHATTAN – POLICE ARE WORKING to “bring closure” to the parents of missing Long Island boy Thomas Medlin, age 15, after reviewing security footage from the Manhattan Bridge captured on Jan. 9, the date of his disappearance, the New York Post reports. Thomas had left his school...