Newark NJ

New York City dished out welfare checks to nearly 865,000 people over the past year — a historic handout that has sent public assistance spending skyrocketing to a record-breaking $2.7 billion, The Post can reveal. The city’s Department of Social Services served a staggering 864,999 welfare recipients for the 12-month

NEW YORK - Severe thunderstorms and heavy rain could hit the NYC area Saturday, bringing the risk of flash flooding, damaging wind gusts and an isolated tornado. The National Weather Service says multiple rounds of heavy downpours and thunderstorms are expected late Saturday morning into Saturday evening across the New

A Newark man who told investigators he works as an elementary school security guard has been arrested following an investigation into the attempted luring of a person he believed to be a 13-year-old child for sexual activity, North Bergen Police Chief Robert J. Farley Jr. announced. On Thursday, July 16,...

NEWARK, N.J. – Mars Wrigley will permanently close its U.S. headquarters and Newark market hub, eliminating 307 positions as the company consolidates corporate operations at its expanded campus in Chicago. The job cuts will begin on October 16, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed w

STAFFORD, VA — Jing Sheng Dong, a Staten Island bus driver charged in a deadly May 29 crash on Interstate 95 near Marine Corps Base Quantico, has been moved from the hospital to jail. Authorities said Dong was released from medical care Monday night and taken to the Rappahannock...

HARLEM, NY - A 24-year-old man was shot in the eye and killed early Saturday in Harlem, according to the NYPD. Police said officers responded to a 911 call for a person shot near Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macombs Place around 1:32 a.m. Saturday. When officers arrived, they found a...

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics and Gangs Task Force arrested 12 people, also recovering three firearms, in a Jersey City drug investigation on Clinton Avenue, Prosecutor Wayne Mello announced. The arrests were made with the assistance of the Jersey City Police Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,

Grab a stool and let’s talk about weekends across the Hudson. Jersey City has quietly evolved into one of the most reliable food destinations on the East Coast. When the weekend rolls around, the brunch scene here’s absolutely top-tier. Whether you’re shaking off a late night out or...

Weird New Jersey founder Mark Sceurman has spent 32 years chasing New Jersey's strangest stories, including a few that never left Montclair: a poet the police department couldn't figure out, a scream nobody's ever traced at Mills Reservation, and the ruins of an asylum most residents drive past without knowing its hist

Newark has certainly had its share of sensational crimes over the years, perhaps none more notable than the mob hit of gangster Dutch Schultz at the long-demolished Palace Chop House on East Park Street in October of 1935. But nine years earlier, there was a fatal armed robbery in the...