Newark News

New Jersey Department of Transportation officials are trying to get motorists ready for next year's planned closing of the Pulaski Skyway's northbound lanes.

A file photo of William Reilly during a Mass in the Spanish language at Most Holy Name Church in Garfield.

A 17-year-old from Newark was arrested Thursday after South Orange detectives determined the teen was involved in an "unprovoked assault" of a pedestrian on Saturday, Nov. 16, police said.

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is notifying 839,711 members that two company laptops containing personal information were stolen from its corporate headquarters in Newark just over a month ago.

Hillside police today arrested a man for a fatal drunk-driving accident on Route 22 in which a Newark man was killed.

A man was arrested in Pennsylvania on Thursday and charged with the July murder of a 21-year-old Newark man, according to Anthony Ambrose, the Essex County prosecutor's chief of detectives.

Jose Echevarria, 31, of Belleville was arrested at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on Clifton Avenue in Newark following a motor vehicle stop for an unspecified equipment violation, according to Capt.

The New Jersey Department of Education on Thursday released its annual Violence, Vandalism and Substance Abuse in the Schools Report for 2012-2013.

Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo will launch his campaign for a fourth term during an event Monday at Essex County College in Newark, the campaign announced Thursday.

Attorney Mark Tabakin was tapped by the Montclair Board of Education to conduct a probe into the online leak of student tests.

TV personality Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino arrives at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 13, 2011.

Officer of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Tom O'Donnell and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announce the December 2011 arrests of more than a dozen New Jersey doctors and a nurse practitioner in a cash-for-test-referral kickback scheme.

NEWARK - Two men are facing drug charges after they were arrested in two separate incidents in Newark on Wednesday night, officials announced today.

A superior court judge on Thursday denied a request to merge a string of robberies and a murder into one large trial.

Michael B. Jordan isn't doing too shabby these days. After being hailed Breakout of the Year by GQ following his lead role in one of the year's most buzzed-about films Fruitvale Station, the Newark, New Jersey native is being linked to potential blockbusters from Star Wars: Episode 7 to Fantastic 4. But could his heroic efforts lead to a cameo on ... (more)

Gregory, a high school freshman, was not performing well in school and had trouble concentrating when he went to the FamilyConnections agency for counseling.

A 28-year-old man was shot in the city's West Ward Wednesday night, but is expected to survive.

On Tuesday, activists and workers delivered enough signatures to the State House to get a question on the 2014 ballot about whether to guarantee that the state's workers get paid sick days.

They are painted there to mark the homicides Camden saw in 2012, a record-setting wave of bloodshed that followed the decision to cut the police force in half.

Nothing reported missing at this time. 11/24 0815 hrs., Morrison, James E., 26, of Newark, NJ, arrested at Rt 124 and Summit Avenue for Contempt of Court 11/25 0936 hrs., report of theft from unlocked vehicle while it was parked at Morris Avenue and Elm Street between 8:45 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., this date.