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But with the last of more than 40 federal wrongful death claims now settled and talks ongoing in a few remaining state cases, a trial is increasingly unlikely.

Pulaski Skyway commuters are being warned this past week of religious holidays and school vacations was the exception, not the norm.

At Robert Treat Academy Charter School in Newark, poverty, single parent homes and neighborhood crime are no excuse for poor academic performance.

Hoboken's premier cultural event, the Arts and Music Festival, happens twice per year.

Saint Michael's Medical Center is up for sale and the buyer, Prime Healthcare Services of California, has slashed the amount of money it's willing to pay.

Running back Charles Snorweah out of Pennsbury High School committed Friday to Rutgers, becoming the fifth member of the 2015 class.

For the tens of thousands of commuters that work in Newark, the surge of homicides over the past year has not gone unnoticed.

Police cars surround a truck that was stopped on North Avenue in Elizabeth following an armed robbery and a shoot-out.

A mishap at a Newark drugstore circa 1880 spurred a pharmacist to develop a pastel innovation that has colored Easter eggs for more than 130 years.

Does a CEO making 121 times the income of his worker have the same or more "skin in the game"? Does he pay 121 times the federal taxes, or more? Is the game "Chutes and Ladders"? Is a union job a ladder and a pink slip a chute? Was the CEO born with ladders and a kid in Newark born without? Even Gov. Chris Christie fled the crime-ridden streets of ... (more)

JUNE 28: Anthony Davis talks with Craig Sager during the 2012 NBA Draft at the Prudential Center on June 28, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey.

A Kean University student was wounded in an off-campus shooting outside a fraternity house on Conant Street in Hillside early today.

Patricia Craig, an elder at the North Reformed Church in Newark, carries a wooden cross along Broad Street as she and other parishioners from a number of Newark churches take part in Ecumenical Good Friday walk.

A group aligned with Newark mayoral candidate Shavar Jeffries is asking Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop to denounce Jeffries opponent Ras Baraka for accepting salary increases as a councilman while the city laid off workers.

Murder charges have been filed in the case of a man found stabbed to death in an abandoned Newark home last weekend.

Authorities have accused a Pennsylvania man of sexually assaulting three boys in New Jersey's Warren County.

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FBI agents remove Eliyahu Weinstein from his Seton Circle home in Lakewood about two hours after an early morning raid in this August 2010 photo.

State Department of Transportation officials Friday strongly urged motorists to use public transit, including a new park-and- ride bus near Newark Liberty International Airport and new ferry service from Monmouth County, during the two-year closure of the Pulaski Skyway in the northbound direction .

A Darien woman's credit card information was used in an attempt to buy three JetBlue tickets from Newark, N.J., to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., March 21, according to police.