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Suspected bank robber fatally shoots himself in Ramsey after being stopped by...
RAMSEY — Police in Bergen County say a suspected bank robber shot himself to death in his car after officers chased him down. The incident began with a report of an armed robbery Wednesday in Ramapo,...
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Teeth found in latest search for human remains along N.Y. beach highway
WANTAGH, N.Y. — Police today discovered two teeth not far from where a human skull was located earlier this month in a dense section of underbrush along a New York highway where 10 sets of human...
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Union Twp. police officer making traffic stop shoots suspect after being...
UNION TOWNSHIP — A township police officer was injured today as he stopped a suspected stolen car and ended up shooting one of the people inside it. Suspecting it had been stolen, the unidentified...
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Liquor store clerk killed in West Orange
WEST ORANGE — A 28-year-old liquor store clerk was killed Friday approximately a half-hour before closing time, officials said. James Wilson, 28, a resident of Union County, was fatally shot at about...
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Woman is in critical condition after being shot multiple times in Newark
NEWARK — A woman was shot multiple times around 4:20 a.m. today on North Munn Avenue by Tremont Avenue, said Newark police Sgt. Ronald Glover. The woman was taken to University Hospital in Newark and...
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U.S. Supreme Court to hear challenge to automatic inmate strip-searches...
Albert Florence filed a civil-rights lawsuit after he was strip-searched during a six-day stay at the Essex County jail in 2005 Ed Murray/The Star-LedgerAttorney Susan Chana Lask and her client Albert...
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Rutgers University starts scholarship in honor of student slain in Cranford
CRANFORD — When Pamela Schmidt’s friends and family came together to mourn her tragic death last month, they started to think about ways to keep her memory alive. The idea struck some of her closest...
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Suspended Edison police chief accused of threatening township business...
EDISON — In the continuing battle over the Edison Police Department, suspended Chief Thomas Bryan has been accused of threatening township business administrator Dennis Gonzalez. "I filed a complaint...
View ArticleBudget woes squeeze North Jersey cops
Faced with a 2-percent cap on property taxes, North Jersey towns are cutting back on their police forces, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. Police officials warn that less cops means more...
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Two shootings in Newark leave one dead, one injured Sunday night
NEWARK — A pair of Sunday night shootings in Newark's fifth precint left one man dead and another injured, police said. A man who police have not yet identified was shot just before 7 p.m. at 467...
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Camden police chief to be honored despite layoffs
CAMDEN — Camden's police chief is being honored for his policing efforts to keep fighting crime even after the city laid off nearly half the police force earlier this year. The Philadelphia Inquirer...
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Medford man too drunk to find his car reports it stolen
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP — A Medford man too drunk to find his car has been charged with filing a false report after reporting the vehicle stolen, according to a report on PhillyBurbs.com. Robert B. Davis,...
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Bergen authorities believe recent burglaries may be resurgence of James Bond...
BERGEN COUNTY — Bergen County authorities say the burglary ring known as the James Bond Gang appears to be back. They say there have been 40 burglaries in New York and New Jersey since 2009 that fit...
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Seven men and one woman are robbed at gunpoint in Paterson
PATERSON — Seven men and one woman were robbed at gunpoint within a half hour of each other early Sunday morning in Paterson, according to a report on northjersey.com. It was followed by a police...
View ArticleTrenton man pleads guilty to leading a gun trafficking network
TRENTON — A New Jersey man has admitted leading a network that smuggled guns from the Eastern Shore of Virginia to Trenton and sold them to gang members and drug dealers. Thirty-year-old Trayle...
View ArticleBranchville man accused of using a child in a drug distribution scheme
SPARTA — Police say a New Jersey man arrested on drug charges traveled with a 5-year-old child to try to avoid suspicion and hid packets of heroin in the child's toy bag. Thirty-one-year-old...
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N.J. Senate to vote Thursday on legislation to allow towns restrict where sex...
TRENTON — The state Senate on Thursday will vote on legislation to allow towns to restrict where sex offenders live. The bill (S837), sponsored by state Sen. Fred Madden (D-Gloucester), would let...
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Jury convicts Bloomfield doctor on four counts of groping a patient but...
BLOOMFIELD — An Essex County jury returned a mixed verdict this afternoon in the trial of a Bloomfield doctor accused of sexually abusing a female patient, convicting the 67-year-old on four counts of...
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Ex-Guttenberg councilman tied to Dwek sting pleads guilty to money laundering
Vincent Tabbachino, 69, of Fairview, acknowledged that he cashed more than $100,000 in checks at the behest of Solomon Dwek, the FBI informant who had claimed that the money had come out of an illicit...
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Mount Olive teen arrested for allegedly possessing heroin, faces multiple...
MOUNT OLIVE —- A Budd Lake woman was arrested Sunday afternoon when police discovered heroin in her bedroom on Madison Avenue. Amanda Lockman, 18, allegedly had six bags of a powdery substance...
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