Newark NJ

Last week, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka reported a 19% drop in crime and an all-time low in the murder rate while announcing the city’s 2025 crime figures at the city’s police academy. But for some, those numbers don’t tell the whole story. A spate of shootings at...

The complaint states Jose Antonio Chez was struck and killed on Aug. 26, 2025, when a vehicle crashed into the glass storefront of the Planet Fitness located at 647 Newark Ave. in Elizabeth, court records say. As previously reported by Daily Voice, Chez, then unidentified by police, was exercising near a front window...

Imagine a bustling film set right in Newark—this new studio will bring jobs and creativity to the heart of the city.

A New Jersey man was convicted during a second trial for the 2015 murder of his former girlfriend, who was a teacher from East Orange, authorities said Tuesday. Andre Higgs, 53, of Watchung, was found guilty in Essex County Superior Court of first-degree murder and second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun for...

According to reports, a detective with the New York Police Department in Staten Island was fired after its internal affairs division discovered he had improper relationships with five women, three of whom he had arrested in the past. The officer, Brooks Ingram, then lied about those affairs when questioned by members...

The notorious “Torso Killer,” who has served decades in prison for the murders of girls and young women, has confessed to the brutal slaying of an 18-year-old Bergen County nursing student in 1965, officials said Tuesday. Richard Cottingham, 79, admitted last month he murdered Alys Jean Eberhardt in...

An employee working inside a Target store in Bergen County is accused of calling in a bomb threat to the store while working. Jossi Duarte, 22, of West New York was charged with second-degree false public alarm and third-degree making terroristic threats. Edgewater police responded to the Target store in...

WEGMANS has finally addressed fury over a “chilling” anti-theft move after shoppers accused the grocer of keeping their faces on file. The retailer insisted the technology is about store security,...

With tickets priced at $350, this grand event promises local flavors and some heated discussions about where it's all happening.

The illuminated eagle sign above Newark’s Anheuser-Busch brewery is set to be removed as the plant closes after 75 years in operation. Cranes were in place Monday to take down the iconic sign, which has become a symbolic landmark in Newark since its installation in 2001. The sign remained...