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The city's sizable number of low-income workers, distressed economy and Democratic politics often don't play in its favor, but on Wednesday those elements made it an ideal host for the start of a campaign to enshrine a minimum wage formula in New Jersey's constitution.

Authorities have arrested four men in connection with the armed robbery of a New Jersey Target store on Black Friday.

I urge our City Council to landmark St. John's Episcopal Church in the Bergen Hill neighborhood at their next meeting.

For much of its entire 118- year history, since it broke away from Kearny's First Ward, the borough of East Newark has maintained a single public school for kindergarten to grade 8 and has consistently sent its graduates to high school in neighboring Harrison.

Firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze on Cortlandt Street late Tuesday afternoon in Belleville .

Market Street is reflected in the window of the newly-opened downtown 'mini-precinct' the Newark Police Department officially unveiled today.

A fire in an abandoned house a few blocks from Branch Brook Park is being investigated as a possible arson, said a fire official.

WAYNE - A lawyer who briefly served as acting mayor has been missing since Memorial Day weekend, and police say they have no leads as to where he might be.

Over the next thirty days, we will attempt to telepathically channel the minds of NHL General Managers as they complete their final rankings in preparation for the 2012 NHL Draft being held June 30, 2012 in Newark, NJ.

Police conducted a motor vehicle stop, and smelled raw marijuana as they approached.

Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker has hired Obama campaign and Organizing for America veteran Addisu Demissie to manage his Senate campaign.

In an accelerated election for a new U.S. senator from New Jersey, the Democratic field is Cory Booker vs. everyone else.

Adelaide L. Sanford Charter School located on James Street in Newark's Central Ward appears in this photo.

Former Gov. James McGreevey, who made international news when he resigned his office nearly a decade ago and simultaneously became the nation's first openly gay governor, received the Pride of Essex award during a ceremony Monday in Newark.

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ Police arrested a 24-year-old Newark man in connection with a robbery and shooting at the Grove Terrace apartment complex on May 8, 2012.

If trees surround your home and you have many empty spaces in your garden to fill, you should plant hostas .

An alleged thief was shot and killed by a store owner and a teenage carjacker was shot by a Newark police officer during a violent 36 hours that left two dead and four injured in the state's largest city.

Peter Jones of Washington, D.C., talks to the media after his plane from Hong Kong arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport.

FBI agents are going to meet an incoming flight at a New Jersey airport after reports that a passenger claimed he'd poisoned everybody on board.

United Airlines flight 116 from Hong Kong to Newark, N.J., is coming in Monday morning with a passenger who informed the crew he "poisoned everyone on board," sources tell ABC News.