Newark NJ

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Police are searching for a 15-year-old boy who went missing Friday evening after leaving his home in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, according to the NYPD.…

NEW JERSEY - New Jersey just marked a "major milestone" in the state's cannabis industry, more than three years after selling recreational marijuana became legal. New Jersey's first legal cannabis consumption areas are set to open after the state's Cannabis Regulatory Commission approved four endorsements earlier...

An East Orange property owner recently won a decades-long court battle that could signal a change in the way tax foreclosures are handled. In 1994, Lynette Johnson bought a property at 250 Tremont Avenue for $55,000. A year later, the city government wrested the property back after Johnson failed to pay the taxes.

WEST NEW YORK — Seven people, including a corrections officer, a retired cop, and a dispatcher, have been arrested in a drug bust throughout Hudson County, according to authorities. On July 17, officers from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office searched places in North Bergen, West New York, and Union...

Last week, state officials approved four spots where people can smoke cannabis in public, marking a first since New Jersey started selling it legally. The move shifts how the state handles public use. Four shops got permits: one in Newark, another in Merchantville, and two in Atlantic City. Each spot...

They say the three attacked a 39-year-old man at the station, stole his chain, stabbed him in the chest and kicked and punched him.

NEW YORK CITY - New York City Mayor Eric Adams says smoking marijuana should be restricted to specific areas of the city because of the smell. "I think it should be relegated to certain areas that you could smoke marijuana, not throughout the entire street, because you do smell it everywhere," Adams said.

On Sunday, July 6 at 10:41 p.m., officers responded to a home on Woods End Road and met with a man identified as 'B.G.' who told police his wife, Glass, was unresponsive, according to the complaint. Glass was found suffering from a potential drug overdose, police said. Officers then accompanied...

A second defendant has been convicted in the brutal beating of a Newark man in his own apartment that left him in a coma for two weeks last year. A jury found Gabriel Perez, 32, guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, aggravated assault and eluding. The victim’s roommate let...

John P. Menendez has been sentenced to 50 years in state prison for the killings of Anna Shpilberg and Luiza Shinkarevskaya, both 40, with his service weapon in Newark in February 2021, NJ Advance Media reports. Police found Shpilberg, of Randolph, suffering a gunshot wound at Edison Place and Bruen...