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A gun buyback program is up and running in Newark again after more money was found to fund it.

During the game Shabazz homecoming queen Annthea Robinson, center, looks towards the stands while King Ibn Foster, right, and Ms.

Levittown - Holiday travelers making their way home on the New Jersey Turnpike were running into some major delays Sunday afternoon.The New Jersey DOT Web site reported heavy volume along many stretches of the highway.

The Hockey In Newark team listen to their coaches during a gamae against the Ed Snider Youth Program of Philadelphia at the AmeriHealth Pavilion in Newark Saturday, November 28, 2009.

An environmental group says the Hudson Bergen Light Rail is saving commuters millions of gallons of gasoline.

Weysan Dun, head of the FBI's Newark bureau, had barely moved into his office overlooking the Passaic River in July 2007 when an indictment at the city's federal courthouse nearly shook the streets beneath him.

NEWARK, N.J. - A federal agency that handles whistleblower complaints has accused the Federal Aviation Administration of endangering public safety by not changing landing procedures at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Prosecutors say a mail carrier stole two gift cards sent to a New Jersey man and used them to buy items for her Thanksgiving feast.Raquel Miller was arrested Monday at the Irvington Post Office and charged with theft, official misconduct and receiving stolen property.

Police arrested two men in connection to the shooting of an off-duty Essex County Sheriff's Officer outside a lounge early this morning, and a third suspect is still at large, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said.

Early holiday travelers found the New Jersey Turnpike to be relatively smooth going Wednesday, but problem areas were sprouting up as the day progressed.

A program designed to draw thousands of residents out from the financial shadows has come here after proving successful in cities throughout the country.

Paul Bergrin, a Newark, N.J., criminal defense lawyer accused of being at the center of a criminal enterprise, pleaded not guilty in federal court on Monday to a raft of charges that include murder and drug trafficking.

NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey's governor-elect has been subpoenaed to testify in the trial of a blogger accused of threatening judges and lawyers in two states.

Attending a turkey trot is a great way to burn some calories this Thanksgiving. Philms via Flickr If you're worried about the calories in your Thanksgiving dinner, why not plan to work them off this year by participating in a Turkey Trot? Here's a list of local Trots and runs in the Newark, New Jersey area.

A 25-year-old city man accused in a fatal shooting was found hiding in a kitchen cabinet at his girlfriend's East Orange apartment Sunday, authorities announced today.

In a courtroom artist's sketch, former Filipino police official Michael Ray Aquino, foreground, stands at his arrignment before U.S. District Judge William H. Walls, right, in Newark, N.J., Thursday.

Quadir Hutchins does not have a care in the world. Standing in University Hospital's foreboding trauma center in Newark, the 6-year-old skipped past hospital beds as he practiced whistling, a newly discovered trick, and held a silver Gameboy close to his chest.

A New Jersey attorney whose past clients have included Queen Latifah, Lil' Kim and other rap artists has pleaded not guilty to bribery, drug and prostitution charges .

Continental Airlines jets taxi on the runway at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, which has the worst on-time arrival rate in the country.

Senior star Nate Smith totaled 301 yards rushing and receiving and four scores. His four touchdowns were on plays of 94, 57, 39 and 24 yards.

A day after allegedly slashing the throat of his brother-in-law and shooting the man in the head , a Newark man fled nearly 400 miles to Virginia and killed himself as state police burst into the hotel room where he was hiding, authorities said.

Authorities today released the photograph of a 26-year-old city resident wanted for fatally punching a man outside a city public housing development last month.

The number of foreign students attending New Jersey's four-year colleges rose more than 7 percent last year.

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A New Jersey woman who admitted punching a 22-month-old girl she was baby-sitting, causing the child's death, has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison.

UFC Looking To Return To Newark New, Jersey In March Of 2010 Posted by Larry Csonka on 11.19.2009 Likely UFC 111... According to MMAJunkie.com , a source close to the event states that the UFC could return to Newark, NJ, for a March 2010 event.

West Ward Councilman Ronald Rice Jr. sharply criticized the city's anti-crime strategy in his district and listed six projects he said have not been carried out, during a press conference today.

An unidentified man was shot and killed in the city's South Ward tonight, marking the city's fourth slaying in five days, police said.

Shooting/Stabbing. PD/EMS O/S with 3 victims shot,EMS transporting victims to UMDNJ trauma team REQ,crime scene est.

New Jersey's municipal leaders today will hear two views of the state's state of affairs.

Ribs and chicken struggle to escape the french fry quicksand. Love barbecue but hate paying top dollar? Jump on the PATH train, which swoops over the picturesque Meadowlands, and take a quick trip to Newark's Ironbound neighborhood, just a few blocks from the terminus of the PATH at Newark's Penn Station.

FAA: Hudson airspace to be split into local, long-distance zones in response to mid-air crash.

A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in January 2008.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Homicide Squad in conjunction with the Newark Police Department's Homicide Squad is seeking assistance from the public regarding the whereabouts of Abdul Mitchell, a/k/a "Weem," 26, of Newark.

HOME > NEWS / SHOWBIZ > SHOWBIZ > Father of Jackson's molestation accuser dies SHOWBIZ Wednesday November 18,2009 The dentist dad of MICHAEL JACKSON's molestation accuser JORDAN CHANDLER has died.

A suspended Northern State Prison corrections officer was indicted for leading a cocaine trafficking network in Newark and East Orange, authorities announced today.

A man wanted in the killing of a Newark liquor store employee during a botched robbery three years ago was arrested in North Carolina on Monday, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.

NEWARK, N.J. - Authorities say a Newak man beat and stabbed his girlfriend and her aunt with a variety of weapons on Tuesday.

Rumors of the death of news may have been greatly exaggerated. According to a Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey poll, Garden State residents get their news from a variety of sources, with television and print media used about equally.

Former N.J. state Sen. Joseph Coniglio leaves the U.S. District courthouse in Newark on April 13, the day closing arguments in Coniglio's corruption trial were concluded.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 9:28 a.m. NEWARK, N.J. - After losing at least seven tournaments since 2007, the LPGA is renewing an old acquaintance.

A New York City Police helicopter hovers low over the Hudson River on Aug. 8 as it drops a police diver into the river.

A New Jersey airport security guard who allegedly threatened to shoot President Barack Obama has pleaded guilty to two counts of harassment in a deal with prosecutors.

In this photo released by Interpol on Monday, May 5, 2008, an unidentified man is seen at an unknown location.

Newark officials are scrambling to find more money to fund a gun buyback program that exceeded even the most optimistic expectations.

In the second such incident this year, a white commercial van jumped the curb near her Newark home in the North Ward, tore down a fence and punched a hole into the concrete foundation.

After bilking Newark parishioners out of nearly $160,000, disgraced Pentecostal bishop Steven Parrott pleaded guilty to misconduct by a corporate official, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram announced Friday.

Aretha Hill-Forte has seen the worst symptoms of breast cancer at the In The Pink clinic: tumors the size of fists; infected skin, turned orange with festering wounds.

Daniel P Quinn has worked at LaScala for Claudio Abbado, directed at the Teatro Trianon in Rome, premiered Edward Bond's play "Derek" in Newark, Co-ordinated Irish Music Festival's at Snug Harbor,The Great George Festival in Paterson, NJ and initiates with ArtsPRunlimited The Newark Naples Festival, Then and Now.

An unidentified adult male pedestrian was struck and killed in Newark today shortly before 8:30 p.m., Detective Todd McClendon wrote in an e-mail. The victim was hit by a pickup truck at the intersection of Broadway and Irving Street, and pronounced dead at the scene, according to McClendon, a police spokesman.

As Democrats whisper about Mayor Cory Booker's possible candidacy for governor in 2013, an analysis released this week by Public Policy Polling predicts he would be a solid candidate for the office.

A former Pentecostal bishop has admitted stealing nearly $160,000 by fraudulently soliciting loans from parishioners and religious associates in New Jersey.

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Superior Court Judge Torkwase Sekou, sitting in Newark, imposed a 364-day sentence on Kenyetta O'Bryant, a 38-year-old North Plainfield man who holds a doctorate, worked as an adjunct professor and had worked as a counselor at the Newark school.

One of the artifacts brought out from behind the heavy, six-inch doors of a basement vault in Newark is an oil portrait of Arthur T. Vanderbilt, New Jersey's chief justice from 1948-1957. Still stored there are original letters from the Olmsted Brothers, famed park designers, and even original art-deco door knockers, shaped as human figures and ...

The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, Bishop of Newark, N.J., has invited the people of his diocese to participate in an online book discussion during the season of Advent.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker discussing violence in the city at press conference in July 21.

A New Jersey lawyer who represented Queen Latifah, Lil' Kim and other rap artists wants to be removed from solitary confinement.

New Jersey's next governor and the man he'll succeed in January will meet today for the first time since the election.

Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, Prudential, PSE&G, and Essex Veterans observe Veterans' Day at Military Park Ceremony Added by Matt Rainey on November 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM Newark, NJ Mayor Cory A. Booker, the Municipal Council, G.I. Go Fund, and other dignitaries observe Veterans' Day Wednesday morning during a ceremony at Military Park.

Sixteen people were injured in a collision between an NJ Transit bus and a tanker truck in Newark this afternoon, police said.

The number of homeless veterans around the country declined by 33 percent in the past six years a ' but that means 131,000 people still live on the streets, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Just 10 pages after completing its third full ream of paper, H.R. 3692, the monstrous health care reform bill the House passed last week, reveals on page 1,510 yet another reason to reject Obamacare: an unfunded federal mandate for nutrition labeling at chain restaurants and even on vending machines.

Fourteen cities -- including Newark and Philadelphia -- are being targeted in a new campaign aimed at alerting people about human trafficking, federal immigration officials have announced.

Gunfire has claimed two lives in New Jersey's largest city. Authorities say 26-year-old Lamont Richardson and 30-year-old Aminah Crowder suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and head Monday night near East Alpine Street and Elizabeth Avenue.

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.

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.

An FBI agent faces up to five years in prison for submitting more than $41,000 in fraudulent housing expenses while he was on temporary assignment at FBI headquarters.

Governor Jon Corzine, smiles as Lucia Alvis, 65, cheers for him during his visit to the Ballantyne House, a senior citizen residence in Newark.

It's one day before Election Day in New Jersey. Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie says the race all comes down to turnout.

A jury found two Newark men not guilty in the shooting of a bystander outside a Newark housing project more than three years ago, but convicted them on several related charges that carry lengthy prison sentences, authorities said today.

ASSOCIATED PRESS RALLY TIME: Newark Maryor Cory Booker, Lt. Gov. Loretta Weinberg, President Obama and New Jersey Gov.

A church janitor who was one of the employees who found the body of a slain Catholic priest in New Jersey has been charged with killing him.

A small fire in the vent shaft will cause the Pic Nic Bar and Restaurant located at 224 Grant Ave in East Newark to close until the vent shaft is replaced, according to Fire Chief Robert Tomasko .

Republican challenger for New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, center, and Independent candidate Chris Daggett, right, are seen at their gubernatorial debate Thursday at WBGO radio in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Oct.

NEWARK, N.J. - New Jersey's recent corruption sting is turning local political campaigns inside out in places touched by the scandal.