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State Sen. Nicholas Scutari One of the last senators to announce publicly that he would support Senate Majority Leader Steve Sweeney for leadership over Senate President Richard Codey , state Sen.

From left, Marilyn Samuels, RN; Cecilia Boyd, RN; and Diana Johnson, RN, former nurse fellows recently celebrate the MNLI's 10th anniversary.

Assemblywoman Sheila Oliver Her early critics quietly grumble that she's a political neophyte - the preferred Essex County term of art for someone who rises too quickly in politics.

Share + Nov 11, 2009 11:04 pm US/Eastern EAST ORANGE, N.J. There was justice for a New Jersey woman who claims police brutalized her in her own home nearly a decade ago.

A man was taken to University Hospital tonight after he was struck by a vehicle on Route 280 outside of East Orange, police said.

Esmay Parchment was singing in her shower, getting ready for church like she did every Sunday, when she heard a loud series of bangs against her front door.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ID Bayonne man in slay-suicide Saturday, November 07, 2009 Police have identified the Bayonne man who they say shot and killed his former girlfriend at her parents' East Orange home before turning the gun on himself.

Police today identified a Bayonne man who, after a Bayonne woman moved out of his apartment, went to her parent's home in East Orange and shot and killed her before turning the gun on himself.

Assemblyman Reed Gusciora today blamed party bosses for deal-making when they should have been focused on re-electing Gov.

Police seized a fully loaded semi-automatic handgun, 56 rounds of ammunition and 72 grams of marijuana while executing a search warrant at a city apartment tonight, police said.

Ledger Live for Thursday November 4th, 2009 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today's show: We follow Governor-elect Chris Christie to Newark, of course, one of the state's biggest Democratic strongholds.

Among the thousands of Americans who suffered without health insurance to provide necessary treatment was Robert Taylor, of East Orange, who died at the age of 63 on April 29.

It's one thing to mock death with elaborate front-yard graveyards for Halloween.

Whitney Houston has put her multi-million dollar New Jersey home where she married Bobby Brown on the market for $2.5 mlllion.

Two children out Halloween trick-or-treating Saturday night were hit by an SUV as they crossed the street, leaving one dead and injuring the other, police said.

Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced a two-year, $7 million project to modernize and upgrade conditions at each of the County's three public golf courses was completed on Monday, October 26th at Essex County Weequahic Park.

Jerome McGhee faces drug and gun charges after police linked him to a loaded gun and suspected cocaine.

A gun and a large quantity of suspected heroin, cocaine and crack were found in an apartment in Jersey City's Montgomery Gardens housing complex after an East Orange man was arrested in a car near the complex Tuesday night.

Children poisoned by lead would get health services earlier and their homes would be inspected sooner under state standards proposed Monday.