East Orange News

An unidentified male, believed to be in his late teens, was shot once in the leg in East Orange tonight, but no one was immediately in custody, police said.

Cozy Cole's drumming was an essential ingredient in much of the jazz recorded during the 1930s and '40s, and he belongs in the same pantheon with Sidney Catlett, Jo Jones, Chick Webb, Dave Tough, Gene Krupa, ...

BRIDGEWATER - Navinchand Prashad, 54, died suddenly Saturday at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.

Three plainclothes Elizabeth police detectives were in the right place at the right time early Sunday morning when they interrupted an armed robbery and arrested the suspects after a chase and a brief exchange ...

FLORHAM PARK -- Joann Cumberbatch has talked to her daughter about drinking and driving and other risky behaviors, and hopes those discussions won't be forgotten during her freshman year at college.

A car fire caused traffic delays on the Garden State Parkway early Friday. The car burst into flames on the southbound lanes of the Parkway in East Orange by Exit 147.

An elderly New Jersey woman is recovering after being attacked in her home by an intruder.

An 84-year-old East Orange, N.J., woman was hurt in an apparent home invasion, police said.

A Jersey City pharmacy owner has pleaded guilty to preying on the seriously ill by buying prescriptions from HIV/AIDS patients, not giving them their medicine, and then billing Medicaid as if he had dispensed ...

Two Newark men and an East Orange woman were arrested Tuesday, Aug. 19, in connection with two strong-arm robberies after one of the robbery victims followed the getaway vehicle and called police.

City Housing Authority Director Larry Jackson didn't make it nine months into the job.

A letter purportedly sent from a prisoner calling himself "Freak Malik" that threatened the lives of guards at Trenton state prison is in the hands of investigators seeking to ferret out its true author and to ...

IN STORMY WEATHER THIS FRIDAY, AROUND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITYACTIVISTS MARCHED FROM CITY HALL TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND BACK TO PROTEST POLICE BRUTALITY AND ...

CLIFTON Attentive officers on patrol may have stopped a large identity theft operation when they arrested and charged two men with possession of stolen credit cards and credit card-making devices on July 2 at ...

C halk up another one for writer/teacher Bruce Chadwick, professor of English at New Jersey City University.

Three East Orange police officers have been indicted on charges they threatened to kill two teenagers who they believed threw rocks at their patrol car, placing the barrel of a gun inside one youth's mouth, ...

Required fields are marked with an asterisk The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications.

A Federal Express employee stole more than 100 guns that had been legally shipped into the U.S., and then enlisted a co-conspirator to help sell them at public housing projects in Jersey City and on the streets ...

DRUGS, 2:29 p.m., July 29: Police arrested Rachel Johanson, 23, of High Bridge, and charged her with possession of under 50 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia following a traffic stop on ...

It is of little surprise to me that volunteerism is down throughout the country.