Friday, June 23, 2017

'We need you now' Newark mayor tells Montclair State grads and other top stories.

  • 'We need you now' Newark mayor tells Montclair State grads

    'We need you now' Newark mayor tells Montclair State grads
    CLOSE Montclair State University Undergraduate Commencement takes place at the Prudential Center in Newark on May 25th, 2017. Mitsu Yasukawa/NorthJersey.comAmanda Williams, who earned a degree in Journalism, waves her hand to family and friends during the Montclair State University Commencement Ceremony at the Prudential Center in Newark on May 25, 2017.(Photo: Mitsu Yasukawa/NorthJersey.com)The rain outside was not about to dampen the spirits of hundreds of Montclair State University gr..
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  • Newark police looking for tattooed robbery suspect

    NEWARK-- A man who allegedly robbed and then later shot at someone is being sought by police, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said. Deandre Parker (Newark police)   Deandre Parker, 28, of Newark allegedly robbed the 21-year-old victim near South 19th St. and Avon Avenue Tuesday. Several hours later, while driving with his girlfriend, the victim spotted Parker and began following him. When Parker realized he was being followed, he shot at the victim and his girlfriend before driving away...
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  • Cardinal Tobin to ordain seven new priests to serve in the Newark ...

    CLOSE Cardinal Joseph Tobin, the Archbishop of Newark, will celebrate his first ordination Mass as head of the Archdiocese on May 27, 2017, this Saturday. Four of the seven to be ordained are foreign born. Monsy Alvarado/NorthJersey.comSacrament of Holy Orders: Sacrament of Holy Orders, the Mass of Ordination of priests at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark. Viorel Florescu / Staff photographer(Photo: Viorel Florescu/NorthJersey.com)The Archdiocese of Newark will get seven new priests on S..
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  • Listen up Newark: Students tell the district their voices matter | Carter

    Listen up Newark: Students tell the district their voices matter | Carter
    The message in a two-minute video produced by Newark public school students is clear: Student voices matter. It's a new campaign from the Youth Media Symposium, a program offered by the Abbott Leadership Institute, at Rutgers University-Newark, that teaches parents and students how to advocate for education. The youth in the symposium, both public and charter students, don't believe the district hears them when they complain about conditions in the city's schools, such as broken SMART boards, l..
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  • Former Vermont governor touts would-be New Jersey governor in ...

    Former Vermont governor touts would-be New Jersey governor in ...
    The Rev. Ronald L. Slaughter stood before 100 people at his regular weekly noontime service at St. James AME in Newark, providing a message that was both spiritual and political.  "Politicians come and go, but God will keep you from falling," said Slaughter, with cries of "Amen" resounding from the pews. "You need to make a choice to affirm who you are with." One prominent politician, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, came to church for Wednesday's service in his role as a surrogate supporter of ..
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  • Twelve Arrested in Narcotics Case; Five Wanted

    Twelve Arrested in Narcotics Case; Five Wanted
    NEWARK, NJ – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose announced today that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force, along with the Newark Police Department, the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, Bloomfield Police Department, Homeland Security, the Drug Enforcement Agency and Union County Prosecutor’s Office executed multiple search warrants in the cities of Newark, Irvington, East Orange, Kearney, Bloomfield, Orange an..
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  • Weekend Family Highlights: Festival, Dinosaurs, Storytime, Irises ...

    Weekend Family Highlights: Festival, Dinosaurs, Storytime, Irises ...
    The Newark Museum (49 Washington Street, Newark) will host Creative Play sessions on Saturday at 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, and 3:00 PM. This one-hour program is ...
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  • Plainfield's Dolores Stewart Exhibit Through May 25 at Gallery Afero

    Plainfield's Dolores Stewart Exhibit Through May 25 at Gallery Afero
    PLAINFIELD, NJ - There is one more chance to catch the solo show by Plainfield's Dolores Stewart at Gallery Afero.  The gallery launched a 2017-18 quartet of solo shows by multiple generations of women artists of color. Stewart, who was born in 1932, produces works that reflect life. She uses her recollections of her children’s youth, and those of her own happy childhood to create moving sculptures that evoke the African-American family experience. Her observations of people derive from her own ..
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  • Two decades later, FBI renews call for info on missing 11-year-old

    Two decades later, FBI renews call for info on missing 11-year-old
    NEWARK -- It's been more than 25 years since Mark Himebaugh left his mother's home in Middle Township, reportedly to watch firefighters at work on a nearby marsh blaze. The Del-Haven resident, then 11, was last seen around 4 p.m. on Nov. 25, 1991 by a security guard at Cape May County Park South, who reported Himebaugh was walking with a girl. The only physical trace of him searchers ever discovered was his left sneaker, found on a beach along the Delaware Bay. But FBI officials in Newark aren'..
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  • Admitted gang member indicted in fatal 'initiation' shooting ...

    Admitted gang member indicted in fatal 'initiation' shooting ...
    ELIZABETH -- An admitted MS-13 gang member, who previously pleaded guilty to plotting the killing of witnesses, now has been indicted on charges of fatally shooting a man as an initiation into the gang six years ago. Jose "Conejo" Romero-Aguirre, 31, of North Plainfield, faces charges of murder and first-degree conspiracy to commit murder in the killing of 22-year-old Andres Chach of Plainfield on Jan. 9, 2011, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park said. Authorities said that at about 2 a.m..
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KKK imperial wizard found shot dead on Mo. river bank .Newark Parcels Could See Development .
27-year-old man dies hours after Newark shooting .Owners of dead giant rabbit on United flight seek damages, probe .

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