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NEWARK — Police seized nearly 3,000 doses of heroin and arr...

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Essex County corrections officer Carlton Clark (left), shown here with attorney Anthony IIacullo, faces 20 years in prison on aggravated assault and official misconduct charges.John O'Boyle/The Star-Ledger 

NEWARK — An Essex County corrections officer told jurors today she lied to protect a fellow officer accused of pummeling a female inmate in 2...

Kassim Mohammed is the manager of Royal Fried Chicken on Broad Street across from the Prudential Center. He claims the arena hasn't brought his business more traffic. (Aristide Economopoulos/The Star-Ledger)

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NEWARK — At 5:30 a.m., the city hosting Super Bowl Media Day was yawning to life, trying to shake the single-di...

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FLORENCE — Police are searching for a suspect in the armed robbery of a liquor store on Route 130 in the township Monday night.

About 6:40 p.m. the suspect walked into Town Liquor, displayed a black handgun and took an undisclosed amount of money, township police said.

The suspect fled the scene in a silver four-door mid-size car that was waiting with a driver, p...

Real Housewife of New Jersey Teresa Giudice, 41, and her husband, Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice, 43, are charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, bank fraud, making false statements on loan applications and bankruptcy fraud in Federal Court. Photos by John Munson/The Star-Ledger

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“Real Housewives of New Jersey” stars Joe and Teresa Giudice want to be tried separately because he does not plan to te...

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A Neptune Township teen was hospitalized after being shot on Milton Avenue early Monday morning.Google Maps 

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A file photo of a marijuana sample. Police in Lakehurst charged a man with selling imitation marijuana after he mixed Rice Krispies and oregano and told a girl it was pot.EPA 

LAKEHURST — It was a case of ...

Earlier tonight, Twitter was on fire after Macklemore swept the rap categories, picking up awards for Best New Artist, Best Rap Song (Thrift Shop), as well as Best Rap Album (The Heist). Meanwhile, he completely shut out the likes of Kendrick Lamar and even Jay Z (who eventually snagged an award for Best Rap/Sung collaboration for Holy Grail.)

Weeks before the awards ceremony, Grammy voters were in a debate over whether or not the Seattle rapper should even be considered in the rap categ...

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Suzen Jenne Baraka is a multi-talented poet, writer and actor. Suzen has competed nationally, not only in speech forensics, but also in spoken word with the...

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NEWARK — A man wanted on numerous warrants led police on a high-speed chase Thursday night.

The man was also awaiting a trial on prior drug-dealing and weapons charges – and had been out of jail after mak...

Akbar Muhammad, the 36-year-old son of a longtime leader in Newark's Muslim community, was likely the target of a spray of gunfire that left two dead and three others hurt in the city on Tuesday, law enforcement sources told The Star-Ledger. Muhammad died at the scene. (Courtesy Muhammad Family)

NEWARK — A Newark imam’s son was the likely target of a gunman who opened fire on five people in a vehicle parked on a city...

The son of a Newark imam and another woman were killed, and three others were shot, when a "lone gunman" opened fire on a car in the city's Central Ward on Wednesday morning, police said. (Seth Augenstein/The Star-Ledger)

NEWARK — The oldest son a Newark Imam was one of five people shot when a gunman opened fire on a car outside a city eatery this morning, police said.

Akbar Muhammad, who...

Melissa A. Pereira, 25 of Wayne, and boyfriend Jorge E. Rodriguez, 24 of Garfield, were last seen on Dec. 27 leaving Pereira's home. The couple had reservations at a bed and breakfast in Pennsylvania on Dec. 31 but never checked in. Police in Wayne and Garfield are urging anyone with information regarding their disappearance to contact authorities.James Kleimann/NJ.com

Melissa Pereira and Jorge Rodriguez were last seen on Dec. 27, leaving Pereira's home in Wayne. (1/19/14)

PATERSON — Material that could potentially be used to make homemade explosives and some marijuana plants were found in a northern New Jersey home when police responded there for a reported domestic incident.

Passaic County authorities would not provide specific details about the items found early today in the Paterson residence or release the names of the people who lived in the home. They also did not say if any arrests had been made.

Paterson police went to the home around 3:50 a...

A 39-year-old Ewing man was shot dead yesterday afternoon at the corner of Walnut Avenue and Chambers Street, police said. (Alyssa Mease/ The Times of Trenton)

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TRENTON — The identity of a 39-year-old man who was shot dead yesterday afternoon at the corner of Walnut Avenue and Chambers Street in Trenton has been releas...

Congregation members file into their seats at Temple Beth-El of Jersey City for an annual sabbath service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. Former Jersey Journal columnist Earl Morgan spoke at the 29th annual event. Molly J. Smith/The Jersey Journal

Long time Jersey Journal columnist Earl Morgan spoke Friday night at Temple Beth-El of Jersey City’s 29th Annual Sabbath service honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and noted a speech by King he attended in a ci...

One man is critically hurt and his juvenile son has serious injuries after a shooting in northwest Wichita last night.

A motive is unknown, but the victims' family members believe it might be gang related. Police are looking for two males in a red SUV, possibly a Tahoe, with tinted windows.

Just before 6 p.m. S...

Exceptional dryness brings the hazy days of winter

A high-pressure zone that has been warding off rain for months has worsened air pollution across California and the Southwest.

A band of sooty brown haze cloaks downtown Los...

Tiny Westmont has highest homicide rate in the county.

A Newark police officer was shot at during a foot pursuit in the Central Ward Thursday night, authorities say.Star-Ledger file photo 

NEWARK — Gang detectives were investigating drug activity in a Central Ward neighborhood when an u...

NEWARK — The third teenager shot on a South Ward street on Christmas night died early this morning in the hospital, authorities said,

Abdul Frazier, 14, was one of the three teenagers shot on Schley Street. He has spent the past three weeks at University Hospital where he died at 4:57 a.m. today, said Thomas Fennelly, the chief assistant Essex County Prosecutor.

The first two victims of the shooting, 13-year-old Zainee Hailey and 15-year-old Kasson Morman, died shortly after the atta...

 -- At least nine people were killed in a shootout between gunmen and inmates at a jail about 120 miles southwest of Mexico City, officials said.

The gunbattle occurred inside the Tuxpan jail in the city of Iguala on Friday in the early morning hours, the Guerrero state attorney general's office said in a news release.

Six gunmen managed to enter the jail by pretending to be public officials bringing a new inmate inside.

Once inside, the gunmen initiated a firefight with inmates and also...

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Two California police officers who were videotaped in a violent struggle with a homeless man during an arrest were acquitted Monday of killing him.

It was...

Contrary to popular thought, athletes can't sully great legacies by staying in the game too long and not knowing when to retire or stay retired.

They can damage their bodies and brains, perhaps, by not knowing when to quit but loving your craft so much you don't know when to stop is not a character flaw. Making excuses and vainly trying to diminish the accomplishments of your opponents, however, is a sure-fire way to tarnish even the shiniest legacy.

While we were busy wis...

Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina (CNN) -- A North Carolina detective justifiably shot a schizophrenic 18-year-old because he believed another officer's life was in danger, a group representing police officers said, offering an account vastly different from that of the late teen's outraged family.

The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association laid out its version of what happened in Boiling Spring Lakes in a statement issued Wednesday, three days after Keith Vidal was killed.

The ...

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NEWARK — Football fever swept through New Jersey’s largest city today as the New York/New Jersey Super Bowl Host Committee made its latest stop on a goodwill tour that’s building anticipation for Game Day on Feb. 2 while giving back to local residents.

Roughly 800 students from schools across the state — from Waldwick to Brick — converged in Newark and filled the gymnasium floor of Essex County Colleg...

  

Andre Mells, 29, faces 30 years to life in prison for the May 2011 killing of Idris Denmark, 27, when he is sentenced next month.

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NORTH PLAINFIELD — The man killed on Route 22 driving a car stolen out of Newark has been identified, and was transporting a safe stolen during an earlier burglary, North Plainfield Police said.

A fatal car crash took place on Dec. 27 on Route 22 at Watchung Avenue.Google Maps 

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Officials investigate a possible connection between reports of gunshots and a car fire on Hart Avenue last night that left one person dead. (Alyssa Mease/ The Times of Trenton)

TRENTON — Officials are investigating a possib...

The Kansas City Chiefs’ shocker loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Saturday’s wild card playoff game has reverberations in New Jersey.

The Chiefs broke Missouri hearts with their fourth-quarter collapse and in the process, the team also undermined the credibility of an Essex County groundhog.

Clover, the resident weather prognosticator at the Turtle Back Zoo in West Orange, predicted that the Chiefs would win the first-ever Groundhog Day Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium.

Sh...

 New Baby Momma Admits To Being His Side Piece for the Past Decade?

If you’re someone’s sidepiece for that damn long, you are officially a sideWife not a sidepiece. The Twitter page reportedly owned by Dwyane Wade’s new baby momma, Aja Metoyer, sent out a series of tweets in defense of her relationship with Wad...

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Police Suspect Murder of 50 Cent Associate Mazaradi Fox To Be Gang Related 

We told you about the death of a longtime friend of 50 Cent and G-Unit affil...

Kola Boof: Billionaires Prefer *Black* Women

                  Olivia Longott Loses Whip & Crib After Creepin’ W/ Salt’s Hubby!

Olivia doesn’t seem to be gettin’ any Love after Hip Hop. That’s because months after the “Walk Away” singer’s Benz was repo’d, we’re told she’s back living at her momma’s!

“Olivia recently moved back to her parents place in Cambria Heights because the checks from the show stopped coming in.”

It’s a situation which Liv may have long had coming. Know w...

                  Dame Dash Hipped To Jewish Group Calling Blacks ‘Liquid Money: Because We Give It All Away’

“The same way that water falls out of a man’s hands, money typically seeps out of a black person’s hands the same way. Your community gets money and immediately gives it all away to people who aren’t black.
We see that as a huge business opportunity.”

HSK Exclusive - Dame Dash has been identified as the “friend” Dr. Boyce Watkins was referring to in a “true s...

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Man charged in Jefferson Park stabbing death

A man suspected of fatally stabbing a 35-year-old man turned himself in for the Dec. 20 killing late last week, police said.

Michael Allen McGilvery, 44, was arrested Friday after he walked into the Los Angeles Police Department’s 77th Street Community Police Station, said Det. Supervisor Sal LaBarbera.

McGilvery is suspected of stabbing William Jennings, 35, in Jefferson Park. Jennings was on his way to th...

Several people were shot at the Ramada Inn in Toms River overnight, according to reports. (1/1/14)

TOMS RIVER - Police are searching for suspects after three men were shot early on New Year's Day at a Ramada Inn in Toms River.

Officers were called to the the hotel on Route 9 just before 1 a.m. after a 911 caller described a gunshot victim in a room in the rear of the hotel.

Andrews was part of an up-and-coming rap group with fellow rapper George Opoku, also known as 6FO. (12/31/13)

SOMERSET - Two brothers are being sought in the killing of a rapper who was shot to death last weekend at a Franklin Township hair salon.

Somerset County prosecutors say 21-year-old Zaire Cromedy, of New Brunswick, and 28-year-old Antwan Cromedy, of Bound Brook, both face first-degree murder charges in the death of 28-year-old Eric Andrews Jr....

By James Queally and Stephen Stirling/Star-Ledger Staff

A Newark man was killed and a woman was wounded in a double shooting in Newark’s Central Ward tonight, authorities confirmed.

According to Newark Police Director Samuel DeMaio, the shooting occurred near the corner of Sussex Avenue and Hudson Street this evening. The man, 45-year-old Juan Carlos Diaz, was pronounced dead at the scene, while the woman was transported to University Hospital with a gunshot wound to her stomach. S...