Newark News

Hydroponic farming is taking hold in a refurbished greenhouse in Newark's Branch Brook Park.

DON'T LOOK now, but a flicker of bipartisanship may be lighting up a small corner in the U.S. Senate.

The Jersey City plan will spark a needed conversation on all this. It holds promise.

An India-bound flight out of Newark was forced to return to the airport because of an engine fire sparked by a bird strike.

MaryAnn DiMaria stood before a blank canvas, holding a pencil in one hand and a small magazine photo of a young Bob Dylan in the other.

Pastor Gennie Holt prays for Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson's departure at a Newark City Hall on June 30. When state officials renewed Anderson's contract, they also created a community group to improve communication with the state-run district and city residents.

The bodies of three Israeli teenagers who had been abducted and shot to death while hitchhiking were recently found in a field near Hebron.

In the closing days of June, two men died bloody deaths on the streets of Trenton.

As kids, we enjoyed hide-and-seek, scavenger hunts and searching for hidden treasures left behind on sandy beaches.

He was a graduate of Susquehanna Township High School and had attended Harrisburg Area Community College.

In this photo from Thursday, July 10, 2014, Irwin Carbajal, 23, a aircraft cabin cleaner, poses for a photograph at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Carbajal, who makes $8.25 an hour, is hoping to benefit from a pay increase which the Service Employees International Union is pushing for.

Senator and former Newark mayor Cory Booker takes a photograph with fellow former Newark mayor Sharpe James as they attend a ceremony for the swearing-in of Newark Mayor-elect Ras J. Baraka Tuesday, July 1, 2014, Newark N.J. Like a high schooler collecting yearbook messages before summer break, Sen. Cory Booker is roaming the halls of the Senate ... (more)

Newark police, pictured in this file photo, targeted African-Americans in nearly three out of every four stops made under the city police department's stop-and-frisk program over the first four months of 2014, according to recently released data.

The school district is considering plans for a single-sex school or classrooms as a way to boost performance of male students, who lag behind girls in grades and graduation rates, the superintendent said.

Move over Super Bowl XLVIII and make way for the 2014 Special Olympics USA Games.

Authorities in Essex County have identified the victims of a two-car crash in East Orange that killed three people and injured two others.

An Air Canada Embraer ERJ-190, registration C-FMZU performing flight AC-584 from Calgary,AB to Newark,NJ with 92 people on board, was enroute at FL390 nearing the top of descent towards Newark when the crew received EICAS messages AVNX MAU 1B FAIL, AC BUS 1 OFF and DC BUS 1 OFF as well as messages indicating the loss of the associated systems.

KENILWORTH - Darnell England, 39, of Stuyvesant Avenue in Irvington and Jessica Bridges, 32, of Mount Pleasant Avenue in Newark were each charged on June 27 with shoplifting and theft from the A&P supermarket in Kenilworth, police said.

During a routine business meeting in a conference room in Trenton on Thursday, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority approved its third largest tax break in state history - $260 million for a new manufacturing plant on the waterfront in Camden.

An American Airlines jet bound from New Jersey to North Texas safely diverted to St. Louis amid security concerns about a passenger's use of an electronic device.