Newark News

The beat-up sports coat and turned over shoes could only mean one thing. Ali Muslim was creeping down West Runyon Street in Newark with guns in his pockets.

Gov.-elect Chris Christie today said Anne Milgram won't stay on as attorney general in his administration.

Customs officials have arrested a man accused of trying to smuggle eight pounds heroin in his luggage on a flight from Guatemala City to Newark Liberty International Airport.

A Superior Court judge today continued the $1 million bail against a man who was arrested for allegedly running a drug sale operation that catered to Newark's North Ward, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said.

Those green M&Ms really are getting greener. A New Jersey candy factory that produces M&M's flipped the switch Monday on a new solar array that provides clean energy.

More than 50 people blocked a Newark intersection this afternoon as they protested the death of a city man shot and killed Thursday by an Essex County sheriff's officer during a drug bust.

A 22-year-old man died after he was shot in the head today shortly after 4 p.m., police said.

With the words "Let's roll" _ the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt _ U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.

Thousands of people lined up outside Bethany Baptist Church on the last day of a successful fugitive surrender program that has already processed some 3,000 people with warrants out for their arrest.

Hundreds of people were waiting in line Saturday to turn themselves in under a "Fugitive Safe Surrender" program being held in Newark.

Victoria Pratt, a litigator who uncovered rampant corruption in Camden schools and worked for two governors, was sworn in yesterday as the first Dominican judge to sit on the Newark city bench.

With the word's "let's roll," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and relatives of United Flight 93 victims have turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a permanent national memorial at the western Pennsylvania crash site.The memorial is set to open by Sept.

A 22-year-old man was charged with the October fatal shooting of a man in Orange, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said today.

After getting arrested for dealing drugs as a teen, Yusuf Shabazz turned his life around by getting into anti-gang and -violence activism and warning other young people from a lawless life on the street.

New Jersey's amusement industry had its first summer free of major injuries in more than a decade.

Images of downtown Newark, the Statue of Liberty, the state Capitol in Trenton and the new Giants and Jets football stadium in the Meadowlands sports complex will grace the holiday tree in the Blue Room of the White House this Christmas thanks to the efforts of students at the Chancellor Avenue School in Newark.

By TOM HOWELL JR. thowell@njherald.com A freelance cameraman from Warren County has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was assaulted by a special officer in Newark while filming a demonstration against street violence outside a city church James Quodomine, 57, of Independence, says CBS hired him to film the demonstration at St.

Five months after he was sent to prison for his role in a macabre scheme to sell stolen body parts, a former Newark mortician was indicted today on new charges that could extend his time behind bars.

A narcotics seizure turned bloody this afternoon when an Essex County sheriff's officer shot and killed a suspect during a struggle, the prosecutor's office said.

Newark Library Presents Noted Photographer, Author and Professor, November 4th By Newark Public Library 11/3/2009 Noted art photographer and one of the nation's leading historians of African American photography and curator of African American culture, Dr.