The Irvington mayor and other officials are on defense after a state investigation found they wasted $632K meant to help communities overwhelmed by opioid addiction.
Two dozen people have been arrested in connection with a drug gang that terrorized hundreds of tenants at public housing buildings in Newark, feds say.
Former sheriff’s officer Ryan Terry and Isiah Jordan are charged with bank fraud. They are accused of stealing checks and draining cash with help from a crew.
U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing her of assaulting and interfering with immigration officers outside a Newark detention center during a congressional oversight visit at the facility.
Nearly a dozen patients accuse their urgent care doctor Gurvindra Johal of raping or groping them at his clinics throughout New Jersey, authorities say.
30 people have been charged for their alleged roles in a drug trafficking organization that sold large amounts of fentanyl and crack cocaine in Newark.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sued New Jersey's top federal prosecutor on Tuesday over his arrest on a trespassing charge at a federal immigration detention facility, saying the Trump-appointed attorney had pursued the case out of political spite.