Why a casket-bearing crowd blocked busy Newark streets for hours ...
NEWARK -- A gray casket lay open in the middle of the normally bustling intersection of Broad and Market streets. There were no passing cars or sounds of honking. Instead, activists and residents filled the empty streets to demand an end to the violence plaguing the state's largest city. Too many lives have been lost, they said, as a circle formed around the casket. "I'm tired as hell of the violence," said Bashir Akinyele, a history teacher at Weequahic High School and co-founder of the Newark..>> view originalPublic helps nab Newark robbery suspect
NEWARK -- A Newark man was arrested and charged in two back-to-back robberies that occurred Wednesday morning, police said. The first happened around 8 a.m. in the 800 block of S. 17th Street, when a man was robbed by another man. A half-hour later, an officer canvassing the neighborhood in search of that suspect was flagged down by residents who said a store on S. 16th Street was being held up. The officer entered the store and ordered Marvin basker, 42, to drop an item in a paper bag he was p..>> view originalNewark to hire 200 cops, raise taxes in 2017 budget
NEWARK -- The city will hire an additional 200 police officers, build a new homeless shelter and beef up code enforcement under its proposed 2017 municipal budget. The $665.8 million budget was introduced in City Council Wednesday morning and does not include any layoffs or cuts, Mayor Ras Baraka said. That means, for an average assessed home of $175,203, the local portion of the tax bill is expected to increase by $75 to about $3,195, city officials said. Baraka said this will be the last ye..>> view originalNewark man robbed victim on date arranged online, cops say
Quamel T. HatcherNPD NEWARK -- Authorities say a 32-year-old Newark man was arrested Wednesday after he robbed his victim on a date they had arranged online. Officers responded to the victim's apartment in the city's South Ward at 7:30 a.m., on July 7, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said in announcement. Ambrose said the victim told the officers that "personal property was forcibly stolen following a date with a suspect the victim had met online." A department spokesman, Capt..>> view originalBayonne receives $1 million in grant money to add Newark Bay ...
BAYONNE -- The Peninsula City will soon feature nearly a half mile of new waterfront walkways. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) recently awarded Bayonne a Garden State Preservation Trust matching grant for $1 million, which the city will use to add two waterfront walkways along the Newark Bay, city spokesman Joe Ryan said. The state money will be paired with approximately $1 million from an Exxon environmental remediation fund for the construction of walkways at A..>> view originalLetter: Newark riot stories neglected heroes, victims
Share This Story!Let friends in your social network know what you are reading aboutLetter: Newark riot stories neglected heroes, victimsNewark riot stories neglected heroes, victimsSent!A link has been sent to your friend's email address.Posted!A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Letter: Newark riot stories neglected heroes, victims NorthJersey Published 2:24 p.m. ET July 19, 2017 National Guardsmen stand at the corner of Springfield Avenue and Mercer S..>> view originalHow the Newark riots and other race riots changed America
I grew up in New Jersey when Newark, Plainfield and other cities experienced rioting and later became a proofreader and reporter for The Star-Ledger (1978-1983), for which I covered Newark and Plainfield. The demise of Newark as a city has always intrigued and concerned me. I come back to Jersey a few times to see how things are going, and actually, things are going in the right direction it would seem. I also have served in local elected office in the Town of Leesburg, VA, and an old tradition..>> view originalMan charged with burglarizing church in Newark
NEWARK -- A 46-year-old Newark man was arrested for burglarizing a church in the city's South Ward Tuesday night, police said. Rajahn W. McKinnon (Newark Dept. of Public Safety) Officers were called to a burglary in progress around 9:20 p.m. at the New Dawn Church, where they found two men holding a suspect, according to a police statement. The accused burglar, Rajahn W. McKinnon, had unspecified property from the Peshine Avenue church and a knife when he was stopped, authorities said. McKinn..>> view originalContest winner hosts cooking show from his Newark apartment
NEWARK -- His kitchen may be small, but his recipes pack a lot of punch. In the debut episode of his online cooking series, Buki Elegbede's sweet and sloppy whoopee pies not only look delicious, his recipe also seems pretty accessible. That's because Elegbede, who works in television production and owns a small catering company, hosts the show from the small kitchen in his Newark apartment. Contest winner Buki Elegbede. (Courtesy Create TV) "My dream (is) to inspire young people to take culina..>> view originalMontclair Police Arrest Newark Man for Nearly Two-Dozen Vehicle ...
MONTCLAIR, NJ - Montclair Police have arrested and charged a 20-year-old Newark man with nearly two-dozen crimes related to motor vehicle theft and vehicle burglaries. Lt. David O'Dowd of the Montclair Police Department stated that on July 14 "officers were dispatched to a report of a subject looking into parked vehicles on Wildwood Avenue." He stated that officers in that area were working a construction site when they observed a male matching the suspect's description.Sign Up for E-News Upon..>> view original
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