East Orange News

Graduation ceremonies at the Matheny Medical and Educational Center were conducted June 18 at the school.

TRENTON - The state Education Department has placed three South Jersey charter schools on probation because of students' consistently low performance on state standardized tests, the department's chief policy and external affairs officer said.

Despite losing a contentious primary earlier this month to newcomer Lester Taylor, who defeated four-term incumbent Mayor Robert Bowser, Kevin Taylor announced today that he will run as a write-in candidate in the general election on Nov. 5. Lester Taylor received 3,397 votes on June 4 - the most votes out of the five Democratic mayoral candidates, ... (more)

The South Orange Board of Trustees will have to make decisions about whether to remain with the East Orange Water Commission -with which it is involved in an ongoing lawsuit over water quality and other issues -or to find a new source for the township's water, according to officials.

NEWARK - Essex County College student Sierra Spriggs, who has suffered from acute lymphoblastic leukemia since she was 5 years old, was recently named the 2013 winner of the New Jersey Cooperative Education and Internship Association Student of the Year Award.

Newark Police captured three men and charged them with carjacking shortly after a woman's Nissan was stolen in the city's North Ward on Sunday morning.

Former Adelaide L. Sanford Charter School administrator appears in this Star-Ledger file photo with Fredrica Bey, his long-time friend.

Joe and Bette didn't start dating till they were out of high school. Joe is a retired fireman with 28 years on the East Orange Fire Dept.

After Education expert Barbara Strobert spent Wednesday asking teachers, parents and officials what qualities they wanted in a new head of the school district, she said the consensus was the district needed a strong leader able to work with the school's existing infrastructure to establish continuity and order.

City police arrested a man they say lured four people to a street corner to buy marijuana and then robbed them at gunpoint.

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ Seton Hall University was not always confined to the fence that surrounds and confines the campus today.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Town News compiles "Police Blotter" from information provided by area police departments.

A man who was driving 95 mph, high on heroin, with his six grandchildren unrestrained in the backseat had his prison sentence suspended after spending less than a year in jail.

Al-Muqqadin Means, 18, appeared to mouth the words "I'm sorry" when he appeared in Superior Court in Newark to answer murder charges Thursday.

A major storm system is over New Jersey, bringing possible flooding and power outages along with a risk of small tornadoes and powerful "super cell" thunderstorms.

A state Human Services Department police sergeant assigned to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Parsippany has been charged with using his tactical baton to strike a patient without cause.

Police have arrested 18-year-old Al-Muqqadin Means in connection with the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend Aquilla Flood.

A four-mile delay was reported on the Garden State Parkway southbound from north of Exit 137 in Cranford to South of Exit 135 in Clark, according to 511nj.org.

Two East Orange men were arrested last week after trying to rob a 49-year-old Bloomfield man, police said.

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ A public hearing on the $33.5 million 2013 budget, which would require a 1.7 percent tax increase, is scheduled for the July 8 Board of Trustees meeting.