Jersey City NJ

A growing number of retired educators earned at least a half-million dollars in retirement benefits. One teacher earns over a million.

A person of interest has been identified, with the public’s help being requested to make an arrest for a fatal Jersey City shooting that occurred last night, authorities said. Shortly after 8 p.m. yesterday, the Jersey City Police Department was notified of an injured man inside an apartment at...

The New York City civil service exam schedule is open for August, and some jobs pay more than others. The application period for exams opened Aug. 1. Exam applications currently open include: assistant civil engineer; automotive service worker; caseworker; caseworker (NYC H+H); contract specialist; electrician’s helper

A fundraiser has been launched to support the family of a Cliffside Park boy who died in a car crash while on vacation in Ecuador. The GoFundMe campaign, created for Vanessa Gonzalez and her family, will help cover funeral expenses and other unexpected costs following the death of her son, Zechariah Diaz.

Eleven New Yorkers have been charged in an alleged international immigration fraud scheme that arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages and collected tens of millions of dollars, federal prosecutors said. The defendants were arrested on Wednesday, Aug. 12, after a two-count federal i…

A Manhattan man was sentenced to 26 years to life behind bars on Wednesday for chopping up his ex-girlfriend with a meat cleaver and living with her dismembered corpse in her Brooklyn apartment for a month. Justin Williams, 27, learned his fate in Brooklyn Supreme Court for hacking his 22-year-old ex, D’Asia Johnson, t

Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney today announced that Steven Schwally, 66, of Deer Park, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for crashing his vehicle into a nail salon while intoxicated and speeding, killing four people and injuring several others in June 2024. The defendant was found guilty

A Parks Department worker handed a 10-year-old girl a lighter she used to ignite a M-80 that blew off her finger in a Staten Island park on Tuesday, cops and sources said. Joshua Moe, 24, allegedly obliged when the girl asked him for a lighter inside General Douglas MacArthur Park on Jefferson Street in Dongan Hills ar

They’re just north of nitpicky. Mayor Mamdani announced Wednesday he’s going on vacation “Upstate” next week— reigniting a heated, hyper-specific debate about where exactly the region begins. “The mayor will be in upstate New York enjoying time with family,” City Hall said of the trip, from Aug. 16 to 23. “First Deputy

A beloved library branch in the state’s second-largest city abruptly closed late last month after decades of operation, angering residents and the local councilman in the residential Journal Square neighborhood. Adding to the tumult is the Jersey City library system’s leadership, after its director announced his retire