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You Can Buy a House for as Little as $1 in This NJ City
The program is a measure that enables low-cost sales to residents who have lived in this city for five years or more or have been displaced by gentrification
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Investigation Ongoing Into Newark Shooting That Left 3 Dead, Including 8-Year-Old
Police in New Jersey’s largest city continue their investigation into a shooting inside a multi-family home that ultimately left three individuals, including a child, dead, according to prosecutors. Officers responded to a report of a shooting on Johnson Street in Newark around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. A doorbell camera captured the moment bullets rang out at the multi-family home, and...
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Three Shot, 1 Dead in Newark; 7-Year-Old Child Among Victims
At least one person has died and a young child was hurt following a shooting in Newark, according to law enforcement sources. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.
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Bank Employees Sickened by Possible Tainted Money
Tainted cash shuts down a bank in Newark after making employees sick. Checkey Beckford reports.
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Tainted Money Sends NJ Bank Workers to Hospital: Official
Money tainted with an unknown substance led to several employees at a Newark, New Jersey, bank ending up hospitalized after falling ill Tuesday, according to the city’s Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé. The strange events unfolded shortly after 12 p.m. at a Wells Fargo Bank located on Lyons Avenue. It was at that time that Newark Police was reporting...
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3 Fighting for Life After Deadly Newark Quadruple Shooting
A sprawling crime scene took over a Newark neighborhood Saturday night where four people were gunned down near a liquor store, officials said. Corey Beasley, 43, of Newark, did not survive the night. The other three people injured in the gun violence were said to be in critical condition as of late Saturday. Officers responded to reports of gunfire around…
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3 Fighting for Life After Newark Quadruple Shooting
Investigators say at least one of the shooting victims did not survive. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.
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An NJ Mom Died in a Crash Driving Home From Work. Her Family Found Out From a Blog
A family is inconsolable as they grieve the death of their loved one, Mucielouise Bostic — a mother of four who was killed in a single-car crash in Newark early Monday as she made her way home from a late-night nursing shift. “I will never see her. I will never see her … it will always hurt,” Mucielouise’s mother, Jennifer,…
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NJ Family Waited Days to Be Notified of the Death of Their Loved One
NBC New York’s Ida Siegal explains the shocking way a New Jersey mother said she learned about the car crash that killed her daughter — days after it occurred, and after police told the family nothing.
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North to Shore Music & Arts Festival Hits 3 NJ Cities This Summer: What to Know
A weeks-long music, arts and technology festival is heading to the Garden State this summer. Gov. Phil Murphy, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Asbury Park Mayor John Moor, and Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small, Jr. jointly announced Monday the North to Shore Festival which will kick off on June 7. The festival will be hosted by three cities: Atlantic City (June…
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Newark Unveils New Harriet Tubman Monument
Newark honors Harriet Tubman with a new monument called “Shadow of a Face.” Pat Battle reports.
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Oops! Newark Admits It Got Scammed by Fake Nation
Back in January, the city of Newark thought it had become sister cities with a Hindu nation. Turns out, the nation isn’t real, and is run by a scam artist from India who has been on the run since 2019.
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Murphy Urged to Halt NJ Power Plant Project Over Pollution Concerns in Low-Income Area
Residents of low-income communities in New Jersey that would get a second gas-fired power plant nearby are urging the governor to halt the project, which they said flies in the face of an environmental justice law he signed with great fanfare over two years ago — but which has yet to take full effect.
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NJ Man Found Guilty of Murdering Ex-GF, Trying to Disintegrate Remains With Chemicals
A jury found a Newark man guilty of stalking and murdering his ex-girlfriend, and mother of his children, and then trying to get rid of her remains by placing them in garbage bags filled with chemicals, according to the local prosecutor’s office. Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II announced Wednesday Gualberto Lebron, 37, was convicted on 21 of 24…
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12-Year-Old NJ Boy Dies After Collapsing During Football Practice
Elijah Jordon Brown-Garcia was doing two of the things he loved most — being with his little brother, and gearing up for football practice — when he collapsed suddenly and died at a Newark park. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.
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NJ Boy, 12, Collapses and Dies at Football Workout. Family Says CPR Might've Saved Him
The parents of a 12-year-old boy are desperately looking for answers after their son collapsed and died during football practice in New Jersey — and his family says no one performed CPR on him until an ambulance arrived 30 minutes later
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Murphy Says New Jersey Will Expand AP Black History Classes
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said Tuesday that his administration is expanding Advanced Placement African American Studies courses next year from one school to 26 in New Jersey after Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis blocked the course from being taught in public schools in Florida. Murphy’s move comes about a month after the administration of DeSantis, a potential presidential candidate, declared without...
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$31M Expansion Project Complete At Newark Tech School
News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports.
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4-Year-Old Girl Killed in Hit-And-Run Crash in Newark
Police sources said the young girl was walking with her father when the two of them, along with another child, were struck by a vehicle.
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4-Year-Old Girl Struck and Killed by Hit-and-Run Driver in Newark: Officials
A 4-year-old girl died after she was among three people struck by a hit-and-run driver in Newark, according to law enforcement officials.