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KEARNY — Two dog owners are facing charges after a loose pit bull attacked and severely injured a Yorkshire terrier. Police say Joel Perez, 43, was walking his dog on Elm Street in Kearny near the high school around 11:20 p.m. on March 18 when the pit bull pounced, News 12 New Jersey reported. The pit bull forcefully bit the small terrier leaving it bloodied and suffering from liver damage. The terrier required surgery for its wounds.

Will this day go down in history as when New Jersey officially lost its mind?. We've allowed stupid things done to us. We allowed tolls to remain on roads when they were supposed to end. We've allowed longer than necessary lines at gas stations by accepting we can't pump our own when the rest of the nation does. We've allowed them to take away plastic bags and straws (and soon plastic utensils) when real problems like property taxes go unaddressed.

HACKENSACK — A police officer "in crisis" took his own life early Thursday morning while at a hospital, officials said. Maywood police Sgt. Jason Y. Liaban, 39, suffered a fatal self-inflicted gunshot wound around 2:30 a.m. at Hackensack University Medical Center, according to Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella. "The...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- The mother of a boy who fell out of the window of an apartment building in New Jersey is suing the management company, saying the equipment they installed in her window didn't keep her son safe.Her attorney says the 6-year-old is the son of famous rapper Flo Rida.Zohar Dillard is recovering in the hospital after falling out of a fifth-story window at a Jersey City apartment complex earlier in March. His mother has filed a lawsuit against the building.Her attorney says the 6-year-old is in stable condition but suffering from serious injuries."Fractured pelvis, shattered pelvis, liver...

The incident happened on March 18 along Elm Street in Kearny.

A man was hospitalized after being stabbed in the abdomen in Elizabeth on Thursday, March 30, Daily Voice has learned. The incident happened on 1st Street and Atlantic Street around 4:15 p.m., sources with direct knowledge of the incident tell Daily Voice. The man was rushed to University Hospital in...

The New York Police Department (NYPD) has ordered every member of the force to report in full uniform on Friday as a “precautionary measure,” following former President Trump’s indictment. “All uniformed members of the New York City Police Department are to show up in uniform as of 0700 hours on 03-31-2023 as a precautionary measure,”…

A new dinner series requires patrons to dine without clothes on. The Füde Dinner Experience is “a liberating space that celebrates our most pure selves, through plant-based cooking, art, nudity, & self-love,” per a New York Times report. Held on the Lower East Side by Charlie Ann Max, an artist and model, tickets cost $88 per person for the vegan meal, and applications for attendance are required to be submitted through its website. It’s an extension of other naked events Max had worked on throughout the pandemic in NYC. As the Times reported in a separate story about cooking while naked, the purpose of going clothes-free at these dinners isn’t sexual: It’s about feeling uninhibited, per the publication.

The mitzvah tanks featured in Thursday's Passover parade are symbols of goodness and kindness.

An investigation into four males ended with shots fired at Newark Police Detectives on Wednesday, March 29. Detectives were conducting their inquiry on Malvern Street & Pulaski Street at 10 p.m., when one suspect fired a shot at the detectives, Fragé said. Detectives did not return fire and pursued...

Paul Carmeci was driving on Route 3 West in Rutherford earlier this month when a car in front of him flew off the road, flipped over and hit a tree.

A 26-year-old Jersey City resident was arrested on Tuesday, March 28, and charged with multiple counts of growing marijuana in a school zone.Police arrested Eyuemeyar Mazon after they found 18 planter pots containing suspected marijuana, fertilizer, equipment for plant growing, and various amo…

Arkham State Asylum is in New Jersey? Well, according to NorthJersey.com, Joker 2 (Folie á Deux) is being filmed in Belleville at the Soho hospital. Crew members were seen on location on Tuesday (March 28). The shuttered Essex County Isolation Hospital will reportedly be the home for Arkham State...

Dozens of cities and towns have left the New Jersey State Employee Health Benefits Program. Camden, Trenton and Newark have already done so and are saving millions on health premiums, and Atlantic City is next.

Several New York families are having the most challenging trip to the grocery store since the pandemic began as March draws to a close. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP(pandemic-era) )’s Funding Ended This Month. This is due to the fact that pandemic-era funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...

A New Jersey man sentenced to life in prison in 2017 after being convicted of killing his former girlfriend in East Orange has won an appeal and will receive a new trial, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The ruling said a trial judge made three errors related to evidence...

New York City's first legal recreational marijuana shop outside of Manhattan opened Thursday in Queens. New York City's first legal recreational marijuana shop outside of Manhattan opened Thursday in Queens. NYC man continues to fight for exoneration. A New York City man who served 25 years for a 1998 murder...

An industrial property near New Jersey City University is slated to be adaptively reused and significantly expanded following local officials signing off on a revitalization plan. Big things are in the works for several parcels totaling just about an acre of land at 277-301 West Side Avenue. The properties, which...

While entrepreneurs have patiently worked and waited to legally open cannabis storefronts in Hoboken, one Washington Street snack and CBD shop was busy selling it illegally, police allege. Hoboken Exotic, at 521 Washington St., was busted after police charged three people with illegally selling cannabis there, including the store owner,...

Soleil Sabalja grew up in Westchester, NY, along the Hudson River, thus she always loved the water. Sabalja now lives in the Lower East Side neighborhood, close to the East River, so she has seen “the huge need to protect our waterways from the trash that ends up on our streets,” she added.