Newark News

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.

A four-day "Fugitive Safe Surrender" program is getting under way in Newark. The program gives people with outstanding warrants for nonviolent offenses the chance to resolve their legal problems, usually without going to jail.

A priest found slain in the kitchen of his New Jersey church's rectory asked a 911 operator for "help" before the call abruptly ended.

A little more than 12 hours after winning the New Jersey governor's race, Governor-elect Chris Christie appeared at the Robert Treat Academy in Newark, saying he wants the type of education students are receiving there to be delivered across the state.

A broad group of retailers and other shippers called on the mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., to withdraw their support for changes in federal law that would allow local regulators to bar independent owner-operators from harbor trucking.

A four-day law enforcement initiative here aimed at encouraging fugitives with open warrants for nonviolent crimes to surrender begins today.

A television news cameraman has filed a federal lawsuit against a Newark special police officer who put him in a choke hold and then arrested him last year while filming an anti-violence demonstration.