Bodies found during search in Long Island for missing Jersey City woman are...
BABYLON, N.Y. — The FBI is offering its resources to assist New York homicide investigators chasing a possible serial killer after four women's bodies were found dumped alongside a remote beach...
View ArticleJury to continue deliberations in corruption trial of ex-Assemblyman L....
JERSEY CITY — Jurors in the corruption trial of former state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith completed deliberations this afternoon without reaching a verdict. The jury of six men and six women...
View ArticleFormer nursing supervisor admits to stealing $900K from Montclair surgery center
MONTCLAIR — A former nursing supervisor at a Montclair surgery center will be sentenced in March after she pleaded guilty today in Newark to stealing more than $900,000 from the center through misuse...
View ArticleN.J. medical examiner details victim's injuries in fatal shooting at...
MONTCLAIR — One bullet went through the right side of the chest. Another went in and out of the right arm. But the fatal wound to Monica Paul was a single shot to the head that left a trail of damage,...
View ArticleToms River ex-superintendent, insurance broker plead not guilty to corruption
TOMS RIVER — A former New Jersey school superintendent and an insurance broker have pleaded not guilty to additional federal corruption charges. Former Toms River Superintendent Michael Ritacco and...
View ArticlePennsylvania prosecutors seek death penalty for N.J. men accused in 2007...
EASTON, Pa. — Prosecutors in eastern Pennsylvania plan to seek the death penalty against two New Jersey men accused of the 2007 execution-style shooting deaths of three men, court documents filed...
View ArticleIrvington man is charged with 10 bank robberies
IRVINGTON — An Irvington man initially charged with robbing four banks appeared today in federal court, where prosecutors filed six more bank robbery charges against him. In custody since a Dec. 1...
View ArticleTwo killed in bloody 13 hours in Newark's South Ward
NEWARK — Two people were killed and a third was injured during a bloody 13 hours in Newark's South Ward today. Dominik Smith, 19, was pronounced dead after being shot around 6:39 a.m. in a hallway at...
View ArticleSuspect is shot after fleeing from East Orange Police
EAST ORANGE &mdash An unidentified man was shot by an East Orange officer after leading police on a chase into Irvington last night, authorities said. The suspect remains in critical condition at...
View ArticleEx-longshoremen's union official is indicted on waterfront corruption charges
A new indictment of a once-powerful longshoremen’s union leader was quietly unsealed this week, pointing to a growing offensive by federal prosecutors into corruption on the waterfront. The charges...
View ArticlePolice investigating disappearance of Shannon Gilbert remove SUV from home
OAK BEACH, N.Y. — Police investigating the discovery of four bodies in a remote beach area have removed a sport utility vehicle from a Long Island home where a missing New Jersey woman was last seen....
View ArticleFour men are indicted in Somerset County, charged with stealing $2M from...
BERNARDS — Four men were indicted in Somerset County and accused with taking more than $2 million from the Bernards school district. Robert E. Titus, 53, was the on-site manager of the food service...
View ArticleFour Morris County men plead guilty to using tools, torches to break into ATM...
MORRIS COUNTY — Four men pleaded guilty today to stealing money from ATM machines and breaking into commercial buildings in three counties, according to a report on DailyRecord.com. Hector Lasanta,...
View ArticleJurors in corruption trial of former Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith ask judge if...
Jurors in the corruption trial of former state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith interrupted their deliberations this morning to ask whether they could change a verdict. The jury of six men and six women...
View ArticleNew York City police officer is convicted in $1M armed robbery of Carlstadt...
CARLSTADT — A New York City police officer has been found guilty in the armed holdup of a Bergen County perfume warehouse. A federal jury in Newark today deliberated for about three hours over two...
View ArticleGroup attacks, stabs Sayreville man fleeing from bar on Route 35
SAYREVILLE — A Sayreville man was stabbed six times and beaten by a group of men early today after he fled a dispute at Black Betty's bar on Route 35 in the borough, police said. The 38-year-old man...
View ArticleMorristown man is acquitted of death-by-auto charges
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP (Morris County) — A Morristown man was found not guilty today of death by auto in a 2007 accident that killed his passenger in Washington Township. A jury in Superior Court in...
View ArticleBridgewater man who caught, choked burglar is not charged in fight
A Somerset County grand jury indicted two teens today on third-degree burglary charges Google MapsMap view of Oak Street in Bridgewater, where police say a man attacked two teens after they...
View ArticleSuspect says he 'lost consciousness' during Montclair YMCA fatal shooting
MONTCLAIR — An Orange man on trial for murdering his estranged girlfriend inside a Montclair YMCA while she watched their son’s swimming lessons, took the witness stand this afternoon. Kenneth Duckett...
View ArticleJurors in trial of ex-Assemblyman Harvey Smith ask for extortion, bribery...
JERSEY CITY — Jurors in the federal trial of former state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith this afternoon asked for definitions of extortion and bribery for their deliberations on whether the ex-lawmaker...
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