Newark News

United Airlines Chairman and CEO Jeff Smisek, Newark Mayor Cory Booker, and Port Authority Chairman David Samson and Deputy Executive Director Director Bill Baroni gathered today to celebrate the airline's 25th anniversary in Newark.

The Woodlands Cemetery in Newark, near where the body of Chad Butler was found in a burning car June 27, 2010.

NEWARK - Shavar Jeffries, a former state Assistant Attorney General and charter school president, made official his bid to succeed Cory Booker as Mayor of Newark tonight in a packed house announcement at the Newark Boys And Girls Club.

The likely Democratic candidate for governor accused incumbent Chris Christie on Monday of supporting "shallow" gun control legislation in order to avoid alienating conservatives elsewhere in the country.

An unidentified woman was found dead in Newark near NJ Transit's Park Avenue light rail station, a spokesman said.

State police say a motorcyclist refused to pull over for a trooper sparking a 40-mile chase down the New Jersey Turnpike.

TRENTON - The state Assembly today passed a bill that would allow prosecutors to treat the leaders of dogfighting rings like mobsters, as well as legislation to toughen the penalties for abusing animals.

Newark N.J. Mayor Cory A. Booker gave the 2013 Commencement address at Washington University , Friday, May 17.

Former Wyckoff pastor Michael Fugee was arrested and charged Monday with multiple counts of contempt of a court order, after allegedly violating a 2007 agreement with prosecutors to discontinue work with children following accusations of sexual misconduct.

Carlos Dominguez, senior vice president at Cisco Systems, delivers the commencement address during the NJIT commencement ceremony at the Prudential Center in Newark.

A Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Newark was criminally charged today with violating a court-sanctioned agreement that bars him from working with children for life.

University Hospital in Newark, where a man being held at a halfway house escaped in 2010, and later murdered a 21-year-old woman from Garfield.

In this image taken from video and provided to WABC TV News by an airport source, emergency personnel spray foam on the fuselage of a US Airways Express commuter plane after it made a belly landing at Newark Liberty International Airport, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The turboprop plane reportedly left Philadelphia shortly before 11 ... (more)

The facade of the South Park Presbyterian Church, pictured here in 2008, will be restored to become the gateway to an outdoor performance venue.

Christine Ebersole reacts to Anastasia Beliakova, who sang for the Broadway giant during a master class Saturday at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark.

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An airline passenger from Mexico caught in Texas with nearly 4 pounds of heroin in her suitcases has been sentenced to three years in prison.

Essex County Clerk Chris Durkin announced incumbent Bob Manley retained his seat on the Verona Township Council by a lone vote in Tuesday's municipal elections, after seven provisional ballots were counted Thursday in Newark.

Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. recently recognized Verona resident Hilda Lutzke , a retired English teacher at Weequahic High School in Newark for 40 years and one of the founders of the Newark Teachers Union at an awards ceremony at the Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove.

Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. welcomed NJ Secretary of Agriculture Douglas H. Fisher and Newark Mayor Cory Booker to the greenhouse in Essex County Branch Brook Park on May 14.