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Williams was taken into custody and held, awaiting transfer to Rockaway police. a Carl Reeves Jr., 49, of Newark, was arrested at 12:19 a.m. July 24 on the 400 block of Bloomfield Avenue by officers Raymond Diaz and Sang Yoon for resisting arrest and hindering apprehension.

Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say a New York City man has admitted his role in a stolen identity and tax refund fraud scheme.

Despite repeated warnings from the Department of Environmental Protection, some anglers seem determined to harvest crabs from the Lower Passaic River.

The Sweet Retreat is not a bakery its a Cake Boutique, located on Newark's Academy Street, the smell of delicious treats fills the air.

As you know by now, Nyjah Huston has earned himself another SLS victory, sweeping the 2014 Season.

File photo of a New Jersey State Police vehicle outside of a Trenton crime scene.

The laughs are bound to multiply when brothers Keenen, Damon, Shawn and Marlon Wayans share the same stage for an evening of stand-up comedy.

Well, it looks like being on the "doomed corner" of Newark & Garden finally did it in for Legal Beans , who closed shop for good - even after successfully re-opening after Hurricane Sandy - and expanding into the tasty BBQ business.

A brand new Newark city jail facility, paid for by taxpayers, is apparently not going to open.

A vice principal hired at top salary a year ago as part of a team that was supposed to put an end to the ongoing problems at School 6 was fired on Friday, city education officials confirmed.

NEWARK - A Newark man has pleaded guilty to setting a pickup truck on fire on New Year's Eve 2012, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office announced today.

City law enforcement officials announced today that they would be working with police from Jersey City and Newark to create a regional Cease-Fire task force to combat the violence plaguing New Jersey's urban areas.

Rasul McNeil-Thomas, pictured right in this June 2011 file photo, is awaiting trial on murder and related charges in the May 2011 fatal shooting of off-duty Newark police officer William Johnson.

Moses Valez, 32, of Newark is charged with aggravated assault, aggravated assault by pointing a firearm, possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and certain persons not to have a firearm, after he allegedly fired three shots at another vehicle from his Ford Taurus on July 24 at Little and Main streets in Belleville.

Peter Genovese has been eating hot dogs since, well, since he had hair. Shown here in a 1990 photo, Genovese takes a bite out of a Texas weiner.

On June 26, Daniel Mourad of Totowa, N.J was arrested for three counts of possession of a controlled dangerous substance, one count of a prescription legend drug and one count of possession of drug paraphernalia as announced by the Fairfield Police Department.

When the U.S. Justice Department issued a damning report last week about civil-rights abuses by the Newark Police Department, Sen. Cory Booker - who served as the high-profile mayor of the city while the abuses were piling up - said the federal involvement was a positive step.

Comedian Joe Piscopo at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, N.J., on June 5, 2011.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Essex Fells Police Chief Vincent Kulik have announced that authorities are investigating a fire in Essex Fells at 68 Fells Road, at approximately 2:35 am this morning in which one person was fatally injured.

Robert Curvin, PhD was a civil rights activist during the time of civil unrest in Newark in July 1967.