East Orange News

Police today identified a Bayonne man who, after a Bayonne woman moved out of his apartment, went to her parent's home in East Orange and shot and killed her before turning the gun on himself.

Assemblyman Reed Gusciora today blamed party bosses for deal-making when they should have been focused on re-electing Gov.

Police seized a fully loaded semi-automatic handgun, 56 rounds of ammunition and 72 grams of marijuana while executing a search warrant at a city apartment tonight, police said.

Ledger Live for Thursday November 4th, 2009 - Ledger Live with Brian Donohue. On today's show: We follow Governor-elect Chris Christie to Newark, of course, one of the state's biggest Democratic strongholds.

Among the thousands of Americans who suffered without health insurance to provide necessary treatment was Robert Taylor, of East Orange, who died at the age of 63 on April 29.

It's one thing to mock death with elaborate front-yard graveyards for Halloween.

Whitney Houston has put her multi-million dollar New Jersey home where she married Bobby Brown on the market for $2.5 mlllion.

Two children out Halloween trick-or-treating Saturday night were hit by an SUV as they crossed the street, leaving one dead and injuring the other, police said.

Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced a two-year, $7 million project to modernize and upgrade conditions at each of the County's three public golf courses was completed on Monday, October 26th at Essex County Weequahic Park.

Jerome McGhee faces drug and gun charges after police linked him to a loaded gun and suspected cocaine.

A gun and a large quantity of suspected heroin, cocaine and crack were found in an apartment in Jersey City's Montgomery Gardens housing complex after an East Orange man was arrested in a car near the complex Tuesday night.

Children poisoned by lead would get health services earlier and their homes would be inspected sooner under state standards proposed Monday.

A federal jury today convicted an East Orange man for the 2006 carjacking of a couple in East Orange, in which the defendant pistol-whipped a male victim and sexually assaulted a female victim before critically wounding her with a gunshot to the head, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

An East Orange man pleaded not guilty this afternoon in Superior Court to charges he sexually assaulted an 18-year-old woman at knifepoint in March, after trying to attack two younger girls the same day -- each time attempting to force his victims into his Cadillac, prosecutors said.

A New Jersey arts school will continue to bear the name of famed Black actress Cicely Tyson following the Oct.

A state appellate court has rejected the appeal of a Plainfield man who is serving a 25-year prison term on attempted murder and aggravated assault charges in connection with a shooting at a barbecue in the city.

Bon Jovi performed an exclusive set for a select group of 5,000 contest winners, fan club members and construction workers currently at work building the new Meadowlands Stadium.

17. An unknown individual removed a window screen and entered through the bathroom.

From an urban school in New Jersey to a rural school in Humboldt, Sam Kissinger said he looks forward to putting his teaching degree to work.

A Newark man accused of two violent carjackings endured a childhood of beatings and indignities that included eating from Dumpsters and drinking from toilets, leaving him racked with mental illness and unable to comprehend his crimes, a defense lawyer said today during closing arguments of his federal trial.