N.J. firefighter suffers burns to face during apartment fire
NEWARK, N.J. — Two people were hospitalized Monday, including a firefighter who suffered burns while fighting an early-morning blaze in Newark, officials said. Newark firefighters responded to 319 Hawthorne Avenue at 3:59 a.m. for a report of a fire and rescued an unresponsive man from a first-floor apartment,...
Scam Alert: New Jersey court notices tricking people to pay for bogus tickets and...
Bold red “scam alert” flags fraudulent court notices targeting residents
Newark police seek two suspects after gunfire on South 10th Street
Authorities recovered shell casings after a ShotSpotter alert signaled gunfire
Lifeguard charged with lying about 2 brothers who drowned in N.J. pool
A lifeguard at a school pool in Hudson County who told police that two teenage brothers had been asked to get out of the deep end shortly before they drowned has been charged with lying to police. The brothers – Chu Ming Zheng, 19, and Jack Jiang, 16 – drowned...
Mamdani Cuts Legal Lifeline for His Predecessor
(This content was created with the help of AI.) New York's current mayor is cutting a key lifeline for the city's former one. Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration has asked a court to let it withdraw city-funded lawyers for ex-Mayor Eric Adams in a sexual assault lawsuit, citing what Corporation Counsel Steve Banks...
This city might raise its minimum wage to $30, the highest in the U.S.
The federal minimum wage currently sits at $7.25 an hour, as it has since 2009. A new proposal in New York City wants to establish a minimum wage that’s more than four times that amount. Nation’s Restaurant News (NRN) reports that Brooklyn City Council Member Sandy Nurse put forward...
Critics Warn New Yorkers May Be ‘Forced to Sell Their Homes’ as Zohran Mamdani’s...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a new estate tax proposal that critics say could affect middle-class New Yorkers. According to a memo circulated by City Hall, the Democratic mayor wants to bring the estate tax exemption threshold from $7 million to $750,000, a move critics say would affect the middle class. New York is one...
Rikers Island correction officer from Coram pleads guilty to falsifying workers’ compensation claim
Todd Faustin, 43, of Coram pleaded guilty to making a false health care statement in connection to a claim made about an incident at Rikers Island, according to the New York State Department of Investigation. He agreed to pay both restitution and forfeiture, each to the amount of $370,336.79. The...
Elizabeth Man Who Killed GF After Proposing Learns Fate: Prosecutor
Jose Melo pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of his girlfriend, Naket Jadix Trinidad Maldonado, a 31-year-old Elizabeth resident, Union County Prosecutor William Daniel, Elizabeth Police Chief Giacomo Sacca and Elizabeth Police Director Earl Graves said. At 9:12 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 30, 2024,...
Trash Fire Prompts Evacuation of Six-Story Building in Montclair Sunday (UPDATE)
A fire in the trash compacter room at the Valley and Bloom apartments in Montclair prompted the evacuation of the six-story building Sunday night and left one firefighter injured, authorities said. Crews contained the two-alarm fire at 36 Valley Road to the trash compactor room, according to Capt. John Fierro,...
