Newark officials question plan to move Hudson County homeless to ...
NEWARK – Members of the Municipal Council on Tuesday questioned a Hudson County plan to move dozens of displaced families to Newark, despite the city's ongoing struggles to handle its own issues with the homeless. Since December, 29 displaced families that had been housed through a Hudson County program have spent time at the Newark YMCA shelter. The move was spurred by conditions at Jersey City's Starlite Motel, which officials described as a filthy and dangerous "hellhole." The families' pro..>> view originalDevils celebrate Martin Brodeur's big night with 2-1 win over ...
NEWARK — The Devils should retire a number before every home game. They are now 4-0 after raising such a banner to the rafters. Reid Boucher scored a power play goal at 7:13 of the third period and the Devils pulled out a vital 2-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers Tuesday night after retiring Martin Brodeur's No. 30 in a pregame ceremony. Boucher took a pass from Adam Henrique, put the puck on his forehand and scored from the right circle with 14 seconds remaining in an Adam Clendening delay..>> view originalNewark man caught with handgun after chase through public ...
Darphon Corprew (Essex County Correctional Facility) NEWARK – A city man was caught with an illegal handgun after leading officers on a chase through a public housing project Monday afternoon, authorities said. According to Acting Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose, 23-year-old Darphon Corprew was riding in a car stopped for traffic violations on the 200 block of South Street around 5 p.m. Officers looked on as Corprew opened the passenger side door and took off, catching a glimps..>> view originalMan pleads not guilty in Newark killing spree that left 2 women, 1 ...
NEWARK — The 27-year-old East Orange man accused in a January killing spree that left three dead pleaded not guilty Tuesday. While family members of the deceased looked on from the courtroom gallery, Jeffrey Holland entered his pleas through an attorney at a morning arraignment hearing before Superior Court Judge Ronald Wigler in connection to the deaths of Newark residents Ashley Jones, 23, Jarrell Marshall, 28 and Tiniquah Rouse, 21. Holland remains in custody at the Essex Count Correctio..>> view originalMan gets 4 years for fatal hit-and-run after outbursts from his family
NEWARK — Before he was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in state prison for causing a hit-and-run crash last year that killed a pedestrian, Khendrai Williams, Andy Soto broke down in tears as he expressed his sorrow. "I want to say I'm sorry for the situation that occurred," Soto said in the Newark courtroom. "It was never in my heart for something like that to happen." But when Williams's uncle was addressing the court about the impact on his family — saying the incident "ruined the family"..>> view originalJury selection begins for alleged MS-13 gang members in N.J.
NEWARK — Jury selection began Tuesday in the cases of eight men alleged to be members of the deadly Salvadoran street gang MS-13, with charges ranging from killings and shootings to robbery and drug dealing. Potential jurors were brought into the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler Tuesday morning for a trial expected to take up to four months. The defendants were part of the "Plainfield Locos Salvatrucha," an arm of the Salvadoran gang La Mara Salvatrucha or MS-13, that emerg..>> view originalOilers' Connor McDavid responds to Sabres' Jack Eichel's 'We're not ...
NEWARK — Edmonton Oilers rookie star Connor McDavid was told a quick story following Tuesday's morning state at Prudential Center about how a young Mario Lemieux felt about Wayne Gretzky being recognized as the best player ever while they were dominating the NHL in the 1980s and early '90s. Lemieux was jealous, McDavid was told. McDavid, the top pick of the 2015 NHL draft, then was read a recent quote from Jack Eichel, picked second overall by the Buffalo Sabres. Connor McDavid at Oiler..>> view originalGreetings from the press box: Damon Severson back in Devils' lineup
NEWARK — It wasn't a shock when Devils' coach John Hynes decided to sit defenseman Damon Severson out for the game last week in Toronto. But when Severson was a healthy scratch for three in a row, it opened some eyes. Mostly his own. Smarty Marty: Off-beat Q&A with Devils great Martin Brodeur We decided to have a little fun with Marty Brodeur leading up to the retiring of his number at Prudential Center in Newark. Check out this off-beat video Q&A with the greatest NHL goaltender of all ..>> view originalMurder trial begins for mother accused of starving kids, not seeking ...
NEWARK — Standing before an Essex County jury on Tuesday, Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Dawn Simonetti offered a glimpse into the lives of 8-year-old Christiana Glenn and her younger brother and sister. Inside the family's Irvington apartment, the children were tied to radiators, Simonetti said. They suffered broken bones and malnutrition without receiving medical attention, Simonetti said. Those living conditions led to the death of Glenn, whose lifeless body was discovered in the Chancel..>> view originalCould N.J.'s joint military base face another threat to close?
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is trying one last time to begin a new round of military base closings, a move that could threaten Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and would act even if Congress didn't. In his $4 trillion budget proposal, the president's spending plan for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 resurrects his call for a new round of base realignment and closure, known by its acronym BRAC, which the document calls "critically important to realign resources" now going for unneed..>> view original
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