Jersey City News

Yosef Washington, 24, of Bartholdi Avenue, and Tyree Witherspoon, 20, of Stevens Avenue, were arrested on Armstrong Avenue around 11:10 p.m. Monday, police reports said.

Jersey City Police Chief Tom Comey, center, flanked by Fire Chief Darren Rivers, left, and Mayor Jerramiah Healy, speaks during the State Assembly Committee on Public Safety hearing at NJCU in Jersey City, April 25, 2012.

Arrests James Rodriguez, 23, of Jersey City, was arrested at 9:43 a.m. on May 14, for an active warrant out of East Rutherford.

A Jersey City landfill in the shadow of the Pulaski Skyway is slated to become a park and roughly 40 residents gathered at the Ethical Community Charter School on Broadway earlier this month to get briefed on amenities planned for the site.

In this 2011 file photo, former Congressman Frank Guarini, center, at the opening of the Guarini Center for Community Memory at the Theresa and Edward O'Toole Library at St.

Patrick Horner makes his first appearance at Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City via video link from the Hudson County jail in Kearny on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

Akil Duncan, left, and Daquan Pettiford make their first appearance at Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City via video link from the Hudson County jail in Kearny on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

Edwin Gains makes his first appearance at Central Judicial Processing court in Jersey City via video link from the Hudson County jail in Kearny on Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

A Jersey City man was charged with weapons possession for having a large can of Mace in his car during a traffic stop in Bayonne.

The Hudson County Department of Health and Human Services named a Secaucus woman Hudson County's Senior of the Year last week at a luncheon honoring the county's outstanding senior volunteers, The Jersey Journal reports.

Family members of U.S. Army Spc. Rafael Nieves Jr. including his wife Sarah McKinney holding their daughter Emma Grace, 2; his mother Tina Roman with stepfather Thomas Priolo; his father Rafael Nieves Sr.

State Senator Sandra D. Cunningham, right, reacts as a plaque honoring Glenn D. Cunningham is unveiled during a dedication ceremony for the Cunningham and Webb History Trail at Webb Park on Saturday.

A red-light camera mounted at a Jersey City intersection has brought in $1.7 million in fines, records show.

Before the Bayonne Memorial Day Parade kicked off at East Fifth Street and Broadway around 10:30 a.m., Mayor Mark Smith and parade Grand Marshal Barry Jones laid a wreath at the memorial in Donohue Park, East 5th and Dodge Street, for WWI veterans.

Drivers caught on camera running red lights at Kennedy Boulevard and Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City over the past year were issued 20,000 traffic tickets and shelled out $1.7 million in fines, county records show.

Sara McClurg talks with Officer Labruno while holding Pinky, a dog available for adoption from the Liberty Humane Society, at the Santacruzan and Flores de Mayo festival, hosted by the Catholic Action of Mary and Pan American Concerned Citizens Action League, in downtown Jersey City on Sunday, May 27, 2012.

Church commissioners Paul Mugo, left, Phil Carey, Deacon Frank Gonzalez, and Rose Drescher pose for a photo with the Rev.

The Rev. James Finnerty, left, and the Rev. Thomas Thottungal, pastor, pose for a photo after Mass at St.

Though the rain drops began to fall at today's 34th annual Santacruzan street fair in Jersey City, the procession made its way down Manila Avenue without a hitch.

The Bright Minds Institute for Autism of Jersey City held its first annual Walk-a-Thon at Lincoln Park today.