Essex County News

Star-Ledger reporters Mike Garafolo and Jenny Vrentas talk about how the New York Giants are rejuvenated after the bye week and ready to go with their game against the Falcons on Sunday at Giants Stadium.

To fill the Thanksgiving tables of needy families, employees at the Essex County Sheriff's Office are helping out with an annual food drive that will benefit food pantries, soup kitchens and about 1,000 area families.

An off-duty Essex County Sheriff's Officer was wounded early this morning during a brief shootout with a group of unknown attackers outside of a lounge, police said.

A day after allegedly slashing the throat of his brother-in-law and shooting the man in the head , a Newark man fled nearly 400 miles to Virginia and killed himself as state police burst into the hotel room where he was hiding, authorities said.

The 55-year-old security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport who was arrested last month on charges of threatening to shoot President Obama, has pleaded guilty to harassing two airport employees, authorities and his attorney said.

The entertainment industry pays up to $1,000 a day to record and broadcast images from inside the buildings at the Essex County Hospital Center on Fairview Avenue in Cedar Grove, according to documents released last week.

North Plainfield Man Sentenced For Arson and Insurance Fraud Related to Vehicle Fire By Office of the Essex County Prosecutor 11/13/2009 Essex County Prosecutor Paula T. Dow today announced that a Vailsburg Middle School guidance counselor was sentenced in court this morning for having his vehicle and his friend's vehicle destroyed by fire in order ...

Camera crews from the SyFy channel's popular show Ghost Hunters paid Essex County up to $1,000 a day for the right to film inside the abandoned Essex County Hospital Center in Cedar Grove, according to NorthJersey.com . The show also paid additional fees to hire off-duty officers for security, and for permits allowing off-site parking and access to ...

One of the artifacts brought out from behind the heavy, six-inch doors of a basement vault in Newark is an oil portrait of Arthur T. Vanderbilt, New Jersey's chief justice from 1948-1957. Still stored there are original letters from the Olmsted Brothers, famed park designers, and even original art-deco door knockers, shaped as human figures and ...

More than 50 people blocked a Newark intersection this afternoon as they protested the death of a city man shot and killed Thursday by an Essex County sheriff's officer during a drug bust.

Good story by Phil Read in today's Star Ledger about the number of Essex County homeowners that are appealing their latest property tax assessments.

Hundreds of people were waiting in line Saturday to turn themselves in under a "Fugitive Safe Surrender" program being held in Newark.

In this video clip, New Jersey governor-elect Chris Christie addresses the media at the Robert Treat Academy in Newark.

They called the prairie dog Cujo, and his name turned out to be prophetic. Shortly after his 2001 arrival at Essex County's Turtle Back Zoo, the rapacious rodent named after the rabid St.

Giants beat writer Mike Garafolo and columnist Steve Politi talk about the Giants big loss to the Eagles in Philadelphia.

Ledger Live for Thursday November 4th, 2009 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today's show: We follow Governor-elect Chris Christie to Newark, of course, one of the state's biggest Democratic strongholds.

Five months after he was sent to prison for his role in a macabre scheme to sell stolen body parts, a former Newark mortician was indicted today on new charges that could extend his time behind bars.

NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey's next governor, making his first post-Election Day appearance at a thriving charter school in the state's largest city, renewed a campaign pledge to reform urban education.

West Caldwell Woman Charged With Setting Fire To Her Home By Office of the Essex County Prosecutor 11/4/2009 West Caldwell Police have arrested Elizabeth Zartin, 47, on charges arising from a fire at her family's Mountain Avenue home in West Caldwell.

A four-day "Fugitive Safe Surrender" program is getting under way in Newark. The program gives people with outstanding warrants for nonviolent offenses the chance to resolve their legal problems, usually without going to jail.