Teen charged in double shooting during Newark street festival
NEWARK -- A 16-year-old city youth has been arrested in connection with a shooting that occurred during a popular Ironbound street festival last month, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said Wednesday. Shortly before midnight June 10, police found two people at Ferry and Union streets who had been shot. The wounds were non-life-threatening. The shooting occurred as the Portugal Day festival, held largely on Ferry and surrounding streets, was winding down for the night. The teen suspect, wh..>> view originalNewark rebellion still resonates 50 years later
CLOSE A look back at the 1967 Newark Rebellion by John Cichowski, who was a National Guardsman deployed to Newark. Cichowski is now The Record's Road Warrior columnist. John Cichowski/NorthJersey.comOne National Guardsman recalls a weekend war with no winnersThe National Guard in Newark at 1967(Photo: The Record archives)“Rebellion.”That’s the term Newark is using today to correctly describe the dark days of July 1967 when nearly two-dozen people were shot and killed in what was then pop..>> view original50 years after Newark riots, city leaders chart path ahead
NEWARK -- Gripping the sides of the podium in front of her tightly, a Newark church official talked to the crowd about power. "Who has it, and who doesn't?" Dr. Antoinette Ellis Williams asked the rows of people gathered Tuesday night to mark the 50th anniversary of the Newark riots. "And when you have it, what do you do with it?" Newark residents' desire for power and agency over their lives, both in 1967 and today, was the theme of the interfaith prayer service that drew more than 250 people ..>> view originalHow this one walkway could be a path to Newark's rebirth
NEWARK -- The Gateway office complex in New Jersey's largest city is like a glass and steel fortress in an empty no-man's land. There are no storefronts on the sidewalks, where few pedestrians can be found. Even the entrances to the complex are hard to find. It was built in a climate of anxiety just a few years after the 1967 Newark riots, when lives were lost, buildings burned and the governor declared a state of emergency, directing the police and National Guard "to take any and all measures"..>> view originalService workers' strike suspended at Newark Liberty Airport
CLOSE This week promises to be a bumpy ride with the start of a tough NYC commute, a sports talk radio audition for Governor Chris Christie and a sentencing of one of his former allies. John C. EnsslinUnited Airlines planes at Newark Liberty International Airport in December. United is one of the airlines that have not agreed to talks with the service workers.(Photo: Mitsu Yasukawa/NorthJersey.com)A strike at Newark Airport has been paused after American Airlines agreed to meet with the ..>> view originalNewark law intended to curb gentrification fails
NEWARK -- Touted by housing advocates as a "necessary measure" that could stop gentrification in the city, a law requiring affordable housing fell short on Wednesday. The Newark City Council failed to adopt the inclusionary zoning ordinance that would mandate 20 percent of large residential projects be set aside for low- and moderate income residents. The vote came 50 years to the day that the city erupted in a five-day disturbance over issues that included poor housing conditions and police br..>> view originalBody recovered from Newark Bay near Bayonne park
A body was recovered from Newark Bay near a Bayonne park this morning, State Police at the scene confirmed. The police were first alerted to the body at about 6:30 a.m. today, according to police radio transmissions. Jersey Journal chief photographer Reena Rose Sibayan is at the scene at Rutkowski Park, under the New Jersey Turnpike Hudson extension bridge. There has been no confirmation that the body is that of the Long Island man who jumped off the bridge Monday afternoon. On Monday police re..>> view originalBaraka gives fiery, impassioned talk on Newark riots, city's future
“It was almost a de facto apartheid structure, with a few people of color sprinkled in to reflect the majority.” Striking words from first-term Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, whose family has deep roots in the city. The mayor, who has announced his bid for a second term, captivated an audience of more than 100 at an event Tuesday commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Newark riots. “A year before the rebellion, when the city (of Newark) had turned a majority black, 83 percent of the police f..>> view originalFire Damages Multiple Cars in Newark
A fire in Newark on Wednesday scorched multiple cars and harmed the outside of a commercial building, according to the Alameda County Fire Department.>> view original2 arrested on drug charges in Newark's West Ward
NEWARK-- A city woman was arrested after purchasing drugs Tuesday from another resident, who was also arrested, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said in a statement. Detectives from the sheriff's Bureau of Narcotics conducted surveillance at 6th Street and Springfield Avenue following complaints of open-air drug dealing in the area. Detectives spotted Noren McClean, 54, enter a lot at 408 S. 6th Street where she was met by 18-year-old Rajohn D. Abney, Fontoura said. Both were arrested. McC..>> view original
Thursday, July 13, 2017
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