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In a cold immigration courtroom in Newark, Maria González Medina is clutching onto her 9-year-old son extra tightly. On her face, an anguished expression. The boy whose name is Diego, and who I’ve come to know quite well in recent weeks, has cerebral palsy and no real idea what’s going on. He’s sitting on her lap, holding “Vaquita,” his beloved cow stuffie...

The Catholic Church has a math problem on its hands. A record number of people are converting to Catholicism, yet the number of priests is declining. In the Archdiocese of Newark — the state’s largest diocese, which serves 1.3 million — there’s only one priest for every 3,595 Catholics, according to church officials.

We bet you can relate to this one. Spending hours on the phone, trying to get someone who can help you with a problem. Or getting stuck in phone trees or AI voice hell, never reaching a human. Or even more frustrating, when an entity says you have to do...

Leonia won the NJIC Tournament for the third straight year, posting an 86 at Orchard Hills Golf Course in Paramus. Senior Taiyoung Cha led Leonia with a 42 to finish one stroke shy of the lead. Senior Stacy Han and sophomore Seohyun Lim also contributed to Leonia, with Han shooting...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities allege that an off-duty NYPD detective grabbed a woman by the hair and pulled her to the ground in a domestic incident on Staten Island’s South Shore. Daniel Magrino, 36, was arrested around 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 5, in the 123rd Precinct,...

Late Friday night in Jackson Heights, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the back inside Travers Park, sending police into a search for two other teens and rattling a neighborhood that treats the park as a shared backyard. What Happened. According to ABC7 New York, the stabbing happened just after...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Three people have been charged after deputies said a woman and her two children were abducted from a Perinton home Saturday afternoon and later found safe at a home in Rochester. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to a Perinton residence around 3:19 p.m. Saturday for a report that a […]

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A 23-year-old woman was shot in the arm after an argument escalated into gunfire outside a Brooklyn building earlier this month, and New York police are now searching for the suspect accused of pulling the trigger. The shooting happened around 8:50 p.m.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Bodycam video posted to social media by the NYPD shows a vehicle speed away from a stop on Staten Island and strike an officer, according to police. According to authorities, a 911 call came in reporting an early morning car meet-up on River Road in Chelsea just before 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 2.

Imagine a train station that moonlighted as a bridge operator. Set away in a quiet corner of New Jersey, this hidden relic once held the mechanical keys to a massive swing bridge over the Passaic River. While it spent years waving passengers along, its most dramatic chapter arrived decades after...