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Why Did a Madison Man Drive 22 Miles to Bite an ICE Officer in Newark?

Why Did a Madison Man Drive 22 Miles to Bite an ICE Officer in Newark?

Brendan Geier is the 21st person arrested at Delaney Hall in 72 hours. His own county is fighting a separate...

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Paterson Zoning Inspector Pleads Guilty As Two Employees Who Flagged Problems Were Fired Or Blocked

Paterson Zoning Inspector Pleads Guilty As Two Employees Who Flagged Problems Were Fired Or Blocked

How a city Building Department advanced bribery, while employees who reported irregularities faced retaliation.PATERSON, N.J. — Jose Fermin started at...

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Brooklawn Councilman Faces Decade-Long Youth Basketball League Theft Charge

Brooklawn Councilman Faces Decade-Long Youth Basketball League Theft Charge

BROOKLAWN, N.J. — Bruce Darrow, a 73-year-old Brooklawn councilman who spent 15 years as school board president, faces a third-degree...

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Jersey City Double Homicide on Old Bergen Road Brings Greenville Death Toll to Three in 15 Days

Jersey City Double Homicide on Old Bergen Road Brings Greenville Death Toll to Three in 15 Days

BREAKING UPDATE (May 19, 8:10 a.m.):Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello issued a statement early Tuesday identifying the shooting location...

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Fifth Man in 2024 Stabbing Case Caught in Texas, Joins Four Co-Defendants in Jail After 15 Months at Large

Fifth Man in 2024 Stabbing Case Caught in Texas, Joins Four Co-Defendants in Jail After 15 Months at Large

Four men charged alongside Ricky "Angel" Vargas in the 2024 fatal stabbing of a Hawthorne man were remanded to Bergen...

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Route 73 Trafficking Bust Reveals NJ Motel Inspection Gap Before World Cup

Route 73 Trafficking Bust Reveals NJ Motel Inspection Gap Before World Cup

TRENTON, N.J. — Shalaby Hicks ran the Pennsauken side from the Riviera Motor Inn on Route 73. Nathaniel Clay ran...

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Mother's Day Shooting Leaves Seven Injured, 36 Hours Before Paterson Voters Head to Polls

Mother's Day Shooting Leaves Seven Injured, 36 Hours Before Paterson Voters Head to Polls

A Mother's Day evening shooting at a notorious Paterson intersection left seven people injured ahead of Tuesday elections in a...

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NJCCIC Warns Cybercrime-as-a-Service Is Targeting New Jersey

NJCCIC Warns Cybercrime-as-a-Service Is Targeting New Jersey

NJCCIC Alert: Cybercrime Has Gone Corporate — And It's Targeting the Garden StateTRENTON, N.J. — Cybercrime no longer belongs to...

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Targeted Violence at Union Township Chick-fil-A: One Dead, Six Injured in Planned Attack

Targeted Violence at Union Township Chick-fil-A: One Dead, Six Injured in Planned Attack

Masked suspects remain at large after executing coordinated assault on Route 22 restaurantUNION TOWNSHIP—A Saturday evening at one of Union...

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Killer in 1993-1994 Camden County Murders Identified as Man Convicted of 1983 Sexual Assault

Killer in 1993-1994 Camden County Murders Identified as Man Convicted of 1983 Sexual Assault

CAMDEN COUNTY—A man convicted of sexually assaulting a minor in 1983 killed two women in Camden County a decade later,...

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