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A woman admitted Thursday that she bribed an Essex County mail carrier to steal keys that open mail boxes and receptacles and used the stolen items to fraudulently obtain bank funds, federal prosecutors said. Halimatou Ndiaye, 27, of the Bronx, New York, offered the unidentified postal employees in East Orange...

Rodriguez, a police officer with the Essex County Department Of Corrections was diagnosed with POEMS syndrome and myeloma cancer in Oct. 2022. POEMS syndrome is a rare blood disorder that damages nerves and affects other parts of the body, according to the Mayo Clinic. The police officer has recently begun...

NEWARK — The City of Newark has suspended two police officers without pay after a photo of them napping in a police SUV went viral on social media. The pic shows a pair of cops sleeping in a police vehicle for the Sixth Precinct with the front passenger window down during the daytime. It's unclear if the SUV is turned on. Officials did not say when the photo was taken.

Randy Manning was originally found guilty and sentenced to life in 2014 for killing Rhian “Kampane” Stoute in Englewood three years earlier. Manning got the state Supreme Court to support a lower court ruling overturning the conviction and granting him a new trial in 2020. The verdicts this...

While many North Jersey residents have been inconvenienced by the Mars-like orange haze caused by migrating smoke from Canadian wildfires this week, minority and low-income residents in urban centers such as Paterson are more likely to suffer health impacts from inhaling the smoke for days. That's because more Blacks suffer from respiratory illnesses...

A crew of men from New Jersey and New York has been accused of two armed jewelry heists months apart in Manhattan, worth over $2 million — with an approach like something out of a movie. Federal agents say the robbers dressed as construction workers to make their entrances...

Officials announced public schools in Newark and Elizabeth, New Jersey will be closed Thursday to protect students from the hazardous conditions.

New York State regulators raided seven unlicensed Manhattan smoke shops for illegally selling flowered marijuana and other cannabis products — the first such enforcement taken under a beefed up law approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul and the legislature, it was announced Thursday.  Inspectors with the Office of Cannabis Management and Tax Department seized all the marijuana and THC-infused products at the seven shops on Wednesday and issued notices of violation and orders to cease unlicensed activity. The illicit operators face daily fines of up to $10,000 in administrative hearings, and and regulators have the power to petition the state Supreme Court to...

Inniss was a standout football player at Ridgewood High School, leading the Maroons to a state title in 2003 when he was a senior. A fundraiser has been set up to assist with funeral arrangements. As of Thursday, June 8, almost $18,000 has been raised. A funeral will be held...

LINDEN — Two New York men were arrested after an off-duty city police officer saw them steal a package from outside a local home, according to Linden Police. On Wednesday around 2:10 p.m., the officer saw two men pick up a package from the porch of a home on the 1700 block of Dill Avenue.

Police responded to the 200 block of Sunset Avenue and found Annie Gooden suffering from apparent stab wounds, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens and Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. Gooden was pronounced dead at the scene, Stephens and Fragé said. The investigation is active...

Anything is paw-sible. A Queens family was reunited with their missing dog last week after finding the pup at an adoption event in Manhattan. The family of five stopped by the Animal Care Centers of New York City adoption event at Union Square Park on Sunday and realized one of the pitbulls looked eerily similar to their Mocha, who had vanished five months earlier. “We were in the city and we heard about this event and as we were driving we were like, let’s go check it out,” the lost dog owner, a husband and father who didn’t want to be named, told...

NEWARK, N.J. – A former hotel employee of a nationwide hotel chain was sentenced today to 15 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution of $317,582 for his role in a scheme to embezzle over $300,000 from the company. Marco Alvarez, 47, of Bloomfield, New Jersey, pleaded guilty on April 14, 2022, by video conference before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas to an information charging him with one count of wire fraud.

Then I bet you'd love to fix a plate overflowing with collard greens, fried chicken, corn bread, candied yams, chicken and dumplings, oven-baked macaroni and cheese, fried catfish, etc. (I could go on and on). Sometimes you just need some good ol' "down South" comfort food that reminds you of your southern grandma's cooking.

The Hanover Township Board of Education voted Tuesday to repeal a rule that would have forced teachers to out gay and trans students to their parents.

The air quality still remains at hazardous levels Thursday in New Jersey.

Fifty years ago, Ridgefield Park Mayor John Anlian and Stephen Quinn, the village’s environmental commission chairman, explored woods in an untouched patch of land near the New Jersey Turnpike. The two recently stood together to dedicate the area as a new nature preserve. The duo, both avid environmentalists, spent decades dreaming up the preserve and working with the local government before they were part of it to secure grants and land to create the green space. ...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is suing 30 New York counties that have issued orders attempting to stop the city from housing migrants in their jurisdictions.

Cristopher Rosario, 18, of Bloomfield, met the boy in the parking lot of the Walmart on Passaic Street, then threatened him with a silver knife before fleeing on the bicycle towards Passaic shortly after 8:30 p.m. last Thursday, June 1, Capt. Mario Pozo said. The youngster had gone there after...

In the most recent of more than 1,000 cases involving police officers who were accused or convicted of being dismissed citywide, Manhattan's top prosecutor on Tuesday overturned over 300 convictions related to NYC police officers who were themselves found guilty of high-level crimes.