Newark NJ

From candy and costumes to music-filled streets, the village celebrates in spooktacular style.

On Nov. 4 we should find out who’ll move into the governor’s mansion — Mikie Sherrill or Jack Ciattarelli. Either one will be faced with the challenge of how to fund New Jersey’s public schools, especially in Newark, the biggest district in the state. “There are...

A New Jersey man admitted to authorities he killed his girlfriend after a breakup fight, dumped her body near an Essex County golf course, then pretended she was still alive by sending fake text messages from her phone, authorities say.

A suicidal man was pulled by first responders from under the Q northbound train at just after 5:30 p.m. in a Halloween horror and was transported by EMTs to NY Presbyterian-Cornelll Hospital in critical condition. Police are treating it as an attempted suicide. “The train conductor observed an individual jump...

In a corner of Woodbridge, a routine workday turned chaotic as dozens found themselves caught in an unexpected ICE raid.

Travelers passing through Newark Liberty International Airport earlier this month may have been exposed to measles. The New Jersey Health Department issued a public advisory Monday after a traveler with the viral disease visited the massive New Jersey airport. The sick flier, who was not a New Jersey resident, passed...

A suicidal man was pulled by first responders from under the Q northbound train at just after 5:30 p.m. in a Halloween horror and was transported by EMTs to NY Presbyterian-Cornelll Hospital in critical condition. Police are treating it as an attempted suicide. “The train conductor observed an individual jump...

Lyndhurst police were contacted by Paterson police earlier in the day about a possible shooting that may have occurred earlier in the day on the 1500 block of Valley Brook Avenue, Lyndhurst Police Chief Richard L. Jarvis said. Officers responded and discovered evidence confirming that shots had been fired. Police...

In 2021, the New Majority NYC was proud to help usher in the city’s first majority-women Council – and even prouder that it was a majority women of color Council. Under the leadership of extraordinary women, the Council has advanced historic progress on housing, workers’ rights, public safety, and equity. That’s why...

NEW YORK — A former staffer at a Brooklyn detention center for teens was charged Thursday with smuggling razor blades, weed and oxycodone into the facility for close to a year — once again highlighting a broader contraband problem at the facility, authorities said. Lymek Frazier, 33, a...