Newark News

Walt Hohman, shovels the front of his business, Wards Pastry, along Asbury Avenue, in Ocean City, NJ, during a snowstorm Monday, March 3, 3014.

Back in the day, three or four vans full of Roche employees would pull up to Alphonse Petracco's deli in Nutley at lunchtime.

"It does look like Monday and Tuesday should be fairly nice days across the state," said Valerie Meola, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Mount Holly office.

Hillary Sadlon's 22nd birthday wish has mushroomed into a campus-wide acts of kindness movement at Seton Hall University this holiday season.

A Linden man was killed in a three-car crash on the Parkway southbound at mile marker 137.9 this morning.

Two dead bodies were found-about 20 miles apart-along the Passaic River on Saturday.

Thousands of people wanting to be of Irish heritage -- and many who were -- lined the Boulevard on Saturday afternoon for the 30th annual Ocean County St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Linda Watkins-Brashear, left, was accused of overseeing widespread mismanagement and illegal activity at the Newark Watershed.

LESLIE FIEDLER extended the American frontier simply by writing about it. His critical voice resonated with intellectual heft and incessant chutzpah.

African drummers flanked the entry to Newark Symphony Hall, greeting each attendee with ancestral rhythms and setting the tone for what would be a service filled with music, poetry, remembrance and fire; the fire you light when a world-changing, shape-shifting native son has left us.

"Thank you all for your love & support of my family & my kids," the 41-year-old reality star wrote two days after pleading guilty to fraud charges.

From ancient Indian stories to the modern-day spectacle of Bollywood, "Mystic India: The World Tour," promises a spectacular display of culture at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center tonight.

The general chairman of the Newark St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee, Montclair ite Michael D. Byrne, has been named "Young Irishman of the Year" by The Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of the Oranges.

A 28-year-old Newark man has been identified as the shooter in a double homicide earlier this week that killed two city residents, including an innocent bystander, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.

Kansas must spend more money on its public schools, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that could jeopardize Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's desire to make his state a tax-cutting template for the nation.

Newark Mayor Luis Quintana, pictured in this file photo, has not weighed in on the Newark mayor's race.

A privacy lawsuit against Google and Viacom should be allowed to proceed, lawyers representing a group of children say in new court papers.

CRANFORD - A 38-year-old Newark man, Khalid Onion, was charged on March 3 with theft and forgery in connection with an ongoing scheme targeting area food and beverage wholesalers, police here announced.

This is the seated Lincoln statue, created by Gutzon Borglum, outside of the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, New Jersey.

"It's going to be an experience in your mouth," says Lavonia Jackson, of the cupcakes she whips up in her Kiss & Cake Cup truck, usually found in downtown Newark.