Newark Metro News

In this April 7, 2008, file photo, Shalga Hightower looks at a memorial garden dedicated to three slain college students in Newark, N.J. Hightower lost her daughter, Iofemi Hightower in the attack which also ...

The hot weather continues in New Jersey, with much of the Garden State expecting to have temperatures in the 90s today.

A 25-year-old Newark man who collapsed after shattering a police cruiser window with his head on Interstate 287 in Hanover remained in critical condition on Friday at Morristown Memorial Hospital, a hospital ...

TRENTON -- The 2001 unsuccessful campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bret Schundler Tuesday asked state campaign-finance regulators to let it forget $180,000 in debts it owes vendors.

West Chester, Pa. -- Sherman 'Jocko' Maxwell, the pioneering black sportscaster who chronicled Negro league baseball players before the racial barrier fell, has died.

A Roman Catholic priest from Poland has been indicted on charges he fondled a 16-year-old girl while aboard a flight to New Jersey.

NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey woman is suing the call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov.

NEWARK -- New Jersey is more than a half-year into a mild recession that should end in early 2010, according to a Rutgers University economic forecast released Wednesday.

In this Aug. 24, 2007 file photo, Newark Director of Police Garry F. McCarthy speaks in his office in Newark, N.J. about the murder of three college students in Newark.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. AP Photo. By DAVID PORTER Associated Press Writer NEWARK, N.J. New York Red Bulls midfielder Claudio Reyna is retiring.

The maker of recalled heart drug Digitek faces at least nine federal lawsuits in New Jersey, including one where a patient died, alleging the drug was dangerous and defective.

NEWARK, N.J. -- New Jersey towns cannot ban sex offenders from living near parks and other places where children gather, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue the city of Newark over an ordinance that regulates protests and other free speech activities.

NEWARK Women's rights groups and the state Attorney General's Office are preparing to challenge a judge's ruling that determined it's too easy to get a restraining order in New Jersey.

Police officer James Denman gets a cup of coffee at a local convenience store as he prepares to swap his gas-guzzling squad car for a more energy-efficient patrol vehicle -- a bicycle.

Several years ago, Roberto Roman was overweight, lacking direction and mixing with a tough crowd as a teen growing up in the city's crime-plagued West End.

Mike Derer July 12, 2008 2:10 AM EDT NEW YORK - If the law of averages really worked, then the upcoming hike in the minimum wage would help offset consumers' surging food and fuel costs.

A passenger aircraft waits on a taxiway as another takes off from a farther runway at Newark Liberty International Airport in this June 27, 2008 file photo in Newark, N.J. Two airborne planes _ one landing and ...

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards stopped in New Jersey on Friday as part of his push to combat poverty by raising the minimum wage.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed a bill Wednesday allowing the state to borrow $3.9 billion for school construction, popular in the four cities in which he visited schools during the day but controversial because ...