NeNewark high students converge on City Hall after walking out of their schools to protest the designation of eight public schools as "turnaround" schools. They then marched to the Peter W. Rodino, Jr. Federal Building before ending their protest with a sit-in on McCarter Highway. Newark, NJ (Robert Sciarrino | NJ Advance Media )

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on February 25, 2014 at 12:01 AM, updated February 25, 2014 at 6:55 AM

NEWARK —Despite comprising just more than half of Newark’s population, African Americans make up 75 percent of the stops under the city Police Department’s stop-and frisk-program, a report released today by the American Civ...

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NEWARK — One of the city’s “Most Wanted” was arrested Wednesday by...

Newark police arrested a supermarket owner accused of unloading $6,500 worth of stolen meat into his store on Wednesday night, authorities say.Star-Ledger file photo 

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

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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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...

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...

  

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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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...