East Orange, NJ

When an officer asked for his license and registration he allegedly sped off hit the officer's foot and hand and dragged the officer down the street.

NEW YORK -- One person has been charged with manslaughter in the death of taxi driver Kutin Gyimah, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said Thursday. Gyimah was beaten to death last week by passengers who refused to pay their fare and tried to rob him in Far Rockaway, according to police. Before the arrest, police released surveillance video appearing to show five suspects beating Gyimah. One suspect was identified as 20-year-old Austin Amos, but police did not immediately name the person who was charged. Gyimah leaves behind his wife and four young children. 

The young children of a former Newark police officer who were inside their Jefferson home when their father fired a spray of bullets at their mom and her boyfriend in summer 2019 will have no contact with their father leading up to the murder trial, a state Superior Court judge ruled.

For those calling on Jersey City Councilwoman Amy DeGise to resign, she hears you. She just isn't going to do it. DiGise has largely been silent since she was arrested for fleeing the scene of an accident July 19. DeGise was captured on video hitting a bicyclist at an intersection, and never stopping.

We’re all hoping a 14-year-old girl recovers fully from her injuries received in a crash on the Garden State Parkway this past weekend. She and others were riding in a minivan when it hit a guard rail and crashed according to police reports. Officials say she was ejected from the vehicle and sustained serious injuries and was last reported as remaining in critical condition. The accident happened in Kenilworth, Union County.

One of New Jersey’s favorite sandwich shops is gearing up for an expansion. Millburn Deli, a staple in the Garden State’s sandwich scene dating back many decades, is opening a location in Westfield. The company recently signed a lease to open at 142-144 E. Broad St., owners Andrew...

Sure, the report is tongue in cheek (or is it?) since there is no such thing as a zombie apocalypse (or is there?), but apparently, if the zombies do attack, you’d be well served to get out of New Jersey. The info on surviving the zombie apocalypse was compiled...

An out-of-state motorist who was stopped for talking on his cellphone had a gun loaded with hollow-point bullets in a high-capacity magazine in his glove compartment, Little Ferry police said. Officer James Serio spotted the 2017 Acura sedan with tinted windows in the area of eastbound Route 46 and Bergen...

NEW YORK - The NYPD arrested a suspect on Wednesday in connection with a racist attack on a Brooklyn subway train earlier this month. Authorities charged Brianna Rodriguez, 21, of Brooklyn, with assault as a hate crime and assault. Police said Rodriguez sat down next to a woman who was...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — An assailant groped a 13-year-old girl on a Midtown street, then punched her father when he tried to intervene, according to authorities. The attacker grabbed the girl’s buttocks on West 43rd Street near 7th Avenue just before 7:30 p.m. Aug. 7, officials said. When the girl’s father, 55, tried to step […]

A Bayonne police officer is accused of being a toll cheat. Officer Jeffrey Veloz allegedly used a mechanical device to shield his license plate, avoiding more than $50,000 in tolls at the Bayonne bridge. The Jersey Journal is quoting multiple law enforcement sources to detail the violations and Veloz' arrest...

MANHATTAN (PIX11) — They were in Times Square like food trucks, but they sold a different type of edible. Now the business it up in smoke after the NYPD towed and seized more than a dozen trucks being used to sell cannabis. Police initially said 20 trucks were seized on Tuesday, but on Wednesday said […]

NEW YORK -- An immigrant from Mexico is in critical condition, and now a Bronx man is facing an attempted murder charge after police say the suspect brutally sucker punched the victim outside a restaurant.CBS2's Tony Aiello has details and reaction from the victim's family.The assault on Juan Cortez's brother happened Friday night near a busy corner next to the Fordham Road subway station and was captured on surveillance outside Fuego Tipico Restaurant on East 188th Street.Police say it shows 55-year-old Bui Van Phu putting on gloves and then walking up to 52-year-old Jesus Cortez. Then, without warning and from...

Jabeon Bivins, who was a standout high school basketball player at Baldwin High School, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene.

Silvana Fardos, mother of the accused attacker of author Salman Rushdie, darted out of her two-story tan brick home in Fairview on Tuesday afternoon and ducked into a maroon sedan, a hat and medical mask covering her face. Reporters who had camped out on the quiet street shouted questions, but Fardos replied that she had “nothing left to say" and drove away. ...

Federal authorities charged a gas station attendant with planning the robbery of a recently-opened QuickChek where he worked just off the Garden State Parkway. An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Newark accuses Tyrone Crutchfield-Davis, 27, of Linden of plotting the Dec. 15, 2019 holdup on North Avenue at Exit 137 in Cranford with three associates.

A woman pleaded guilty to grand larceny for her part in stealing $94,000 in handbags from a luxury retail store in the Hamptons. Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced the guilty plea of Baseemah Davis on Tuesday, Aug. 16, for stealing from the Balenciaga store in East Hampton in March.

TRENTON — A man was struck by a hit-and-run SUV and was then pinned by another vehicle that ran him over Tuesday night at an intersection considered to be the most dangerous in the country. John Giordano, 66, was carrying ice in a baby carriage at the intersection of...

It’s a serious problem for many renters: mold in an apartment, especially during the hot summer months, and forcing a landlord to fix it isn’t always as easy as you’d think. Kane In Your Corner receives a lot of complaints from renters about their living conditions. If...

A 57-year-old New Jersey man has been federally charged, accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill a 13-year-old girl in Texas, authorities announced Tuesday. Amando Conceicao of Newark is charged with one count each of conspiracy to commit murder for hire and causing another to travel interstate or using interstate facilities with intent that a murder for hire be committed, the U.S. attorney’s office said.