Elizabeth

A firefighter who says she was tied up, tortured and raped by an Ocean County Fire Academy instructor identified herself in public on Friday.

Desiderio Rivera, 55, began assaulting the children when they were 7 and 10 years old, officials said.

The U.S. Postal Service paid the multi-million dollar settlement after a suit over the deadly 2015 crash in Elizabeth, involving a woman and her 2 grandkids.

Police are on the hunt for a 35-year-old man who is wanted on charges of running over two women who were crossing the street on Jan. 6.

Marcelo Rizzo, 37, of Elizabeth, was arrested at his home and charged in the November crash.

The truck overturned in the northbound lanes near the Goethals Bridge and burst into flames, according to State Police.

The seven women all claimed that the former principal of School 27 repeatedly sexually harassed them and that the district did little to stop the abuse.

The New Jersey Commission of Investigation report on organized crime says the North American street gang MS-13 “remains a persistent threat."

So long as their applications get state and local approvals, dispensaries will open Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Ewing, Paterson, Phillipsburg and Vineland.

An Elizabeth grocery store owner was sentenced to two years in prison.