Newark News

A fire in an abandoned house a few blocks from Branch Brook Park is being investigated as a possible arson, said a fire official.

WAYNE - A lawyer who briefly served as acting mayor has been missing since Memorial Day weekend, and police say they have no leads as to where he might be.

Over the next thirty days, we will attempt to telepathically channel the minds of NHL General Managers as they complete their final rankings in preparation for the 2012 NHL Draft being held June 30, 2012 in Newark, NJ.

Police conducted a motor vehicle stop, and smelled raw marijuana as they approached.

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has hired Obama campaign and Organizing for America veteran Addisu Demissie to manage his Senate campaign.

In an accelerated election for a new U.S. senator from New Jersey, the Democratic field is Cory Booker vs. everyone else.

Adelaide L. Sanford Charter School located on James Street in Newark's Central Ward appears in this photo.

Former Gov. James McGreevey, who made international news when he resigned his office nearly a decade ago and simultaneously became the nation's first openly gay governor, received the Pride of Essex award during a ceremony Monday in Newark.

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ Police arrested a 24-year-old Newark man in connection with a robbery and shooting at the Grove Terrace apartment complex on May 8, 2012.

If trees surround your home and you have many empty spaces in your garden to fill, you should plant hostas .

An alleged thief was shot and killed by a store owner and a teenage carjacker was shot by a Newark police officer during a violent 36 hours that left two dead and four injured in the state's largest city.

Peter Jones of Washington, D.C., talks to the media after his plane from Hong Kong arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport.

FBI agents are going to meet an incoming flight at a New Jersey airport after reports that a passenger claimed he'd poisoned everybody on board.

United Airlines flight 116 from Hong Kong to Newark, N.J., is coming in Monday morning with a passenger who informed the crew he "poisoned everyone on board," sources tell ABC News.

Two Mega Millions tickets sold just a few miles apart in Essex County for Friday's drawing turned out to be big winners.

NEWARK - Folks are ready to take a chance on the latest New Jersey Lottery game in this photo from June 20, 1975.

Every so often a guy pops up in the news who's convinced he's smarter than everyone, and can scam the system.

A homeless man was caught driving a stolen car with crack pipe and burglary tools, Nutley Police said.

A date for a preliminary court hearing has been set for the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office detective charged in a road rage murder in Maryland.

View of the Charlotteburg Dam in Kinnelon, part of the facility of the Newark Watershed in Kinnelon.