Newark News

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.

Tresor Gopaul, Glen Ridge's former registrar of Vital Statistics, faces up to five years in prison for skimming nearly $83,000 paid for birth, death and marriage certificates.

From left, Bloomfield police officer Sean Courter, his attorney Charles Clark, Bloomfield police officer Orlando Trinidad and his new attorney Frank Arleo attend a status conference at Veterans Courthouse in Newark on Monday.

Authorities in northern New Jersey are asking for the public's help in finding the family of a homeless man who was beaten to death on a northern New Jersey street.

An escaped prisoner is back behind bars after he was caught with heroin and cocaine in Phillipsburg , court records say.

Two former pharmaceutical and medical technology firm executives have been sentenced for their involvement in an insider trading scheme.

On Saturday, April 26th and Sunday, April 27th, between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., NJ Transit buses will replace Raritan Valley Line trains between Cranford, Roselle Park and Union stations due to Conrail and NJ Transit signal modernization work.

Newark, April 10New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker may be headed for a more difficult reelection campaign this fall than many political professionals seem to think.

* Patrick T. Reynolds of Bloomfield pleaded guilty on April 2 to an amended charge of interfering with police on Feb. 8. He was issued a one year stay-away order from the location of the incident, and was also fined $130.