PSE&G Urges Customers to See if They Are Eligible for Heating Assistance Programs    Posted on 2009-01-04
Source: Fox News
NEWARK, N.J., Dec 31, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ ----Help with winter heating bills is based on last month's income Unemployed or underemployed are encouraged to apply $185 million is available to ...... Full story...

Slaying sullies start of new year in Newark    Posted on 2009-01-02
Source: The Jersey Journal
Police are continuing their search this morning for the person responsible for the first murder in Newark this year.... Full story...

Newark murders decline as police focus o...    Posted on 2008-12-31
Source: New Jersey Online
About a year ago, as Newark's murder rate was dropping for the first time in half a decade, Police Director Garry McCarthy remained worried about a category of killings that remained stubbornly high: targeted ...... Full story...

Cedar Grove Essex County New Jersey Parenting Coordinator Mediator    Posted on 2008-12-30
Source: New Jersey Family Law
The mother wanted to remove a Parent Coordinator. She claimed the Parent Coordinator was biased and unfair.... Full story...

Police investigate attack near Vailsburg...    Posted on 2008-12-29
Source: New Jersey Online
Authorities are investigating an assault that took place near Vailsburg Park in Newark, which left a man beaten about the face, but without a gunshot wound, as he had claimed, Essex County Sheriff Armando ...... Full story...

Another Warehouse Burns In Essex County    Posted on 2008-12-28
Source: FireFightingNews.com
Just two days after East Orange firefighters battled a blaze that consumed a large warehouse, a similar building was destroyed in the ironbound section of Newark in spectacular fashion on December 26th.... Full story...

Off-Duty Newark Cop Stops Attempted Carjacking    Posted on 2008-12-26
Source: WCBSTV.com
Dec 26, 2008 2:55 pm US/Eastern NEWARK Authorities say a Newark police officer fought off an attempted carjacking Friday morning as he drove home in his own car after a shift.... Full story...

Tree falls on moving car, kills 2 on Parkway    Posted on 2008-12-25
Source: Asbury Park Press
A tree has fallen onto the car of a family driving along a New Jersey highway on Christmas morning, killing a grandmother and a father and injuring his two daughters.... Full story...

Essex County official defend deer hunt i...    Posted on 2008-12-24
Source: New Jersey Online
Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. today defended next month's deer hunt in the 2,047-acre South Mountain Reservation, asserting that critics were creating confusion over what he considers a humane ...... Full story...

Court sides with man barred from gun buys    Posted on 2008-12-23
Source: New Jersey News
An Essex County man barred from buying handguns because if a domestic dispute has been given a new chance to argue his case.... Full story...

Investigators: Possible arson fire in Fa...    Posted on 2008-12-21
Source: Jersey Journal
Authorities are investigating a possible arson fire in the kitchen of an unoccupied hotel suite in Fairfield early this morning, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.... Full story...

Morris County school administrators are latest officials to give up pay in tough economy    Posted on 2008-12-20
Source: The Jersey Journal
In an unprecedented move to help their school district weather the economic downturn, 27 Morris County administrators have volunteered to accept cuts in their annual pay raises for the coming school year.... Full story...

Bloomfield Man Plots Fake Murder-For-Hire    Posted on 2008-12-19
Source: Baristanet.com
This has to be one of the most idiotic revenge plans ever hatched. Has this Bloomfielder been watching too many Sopranos re-runs? Actually, his story has all the elements of a daytime soap: cheating husband, ...... Full story...

Irvington man pleads not guilty to stabb...    Posted on 2008-12-18
Source: Jersey Journal
An Irvington man pleaded not guilty today to charges he fatally stabbed an acquaintance during an argument fueled by too much drinking.... Full story...

Short Hills Essex County New Jersey Divorce Attorney Mediation    Posted on 2008-12-17
Source: New Jersey Family Law
Madonna, the "Material Girl", will pay some $76 million to $92 million to her former husband Guy Ritchie, a spokesman said, putting the former couple's split at No.... Full story...

County executives call for pension payme...    Posted on 2008-12-16
Source: The Jersey Journal
Three of New Jersey's five county executives, fearful that Gov. Jon Corzine's plan to allow counties and municipalities to defer pension payments could fail in the state Legislature, today raised the ...... Full story...

East Orange teenager accused in carjacking, attempt to shoot Hillside officer    Posted on 2008-12-15
Source: The Jersey Journal
An East Orange teenager charged with attempting to shoot a Hillside police officer while fleeing from an aborted carjacking is behind bars while police continue to search for his alleged accomplice, authorities ...... Full story...

Neighbors 'stunned' by body found in South Orange    Posted on 2008-12-15
Source: Irvington Herald
An East Orange man reported missing three weeks ago was killed and his body dumped in the Tuxedo Park section of South Orange on Dec.... Full story...

Montclair Essex County New Jersey Divorce Child Support Mediation    Posted on 2008-12-14
Source: New Jersey Family Law
New Jersey sheriff's officers rounded up 949 people last week in the state biannual child support warrant sweep, targeting parents who haven't paid their court-ordered child support or who've failed to show up ...... Full story...

Affordable housing to benefit Newark's West Ward    Posted on 2008-12-13
Source: New Jersey News
Big projects like the $380 million Prudential Center grab headlines, but Newark's lesser known efforts to resuscitate residential neighborhoods are just as important to the revitalization of New Jersey's ...... Full story...

Drug, gang raid under way across Morris County    Posted on 2008-12-12
Source: Daily Record
MORRISTOWN -- The Morris County Prosecutor's Office, as well as officers from 18 federal, state, county and local law enforcement agencies, swept through several Morris County towns today, as well as locations ...... Full story...

Pedestrian struck and killed by car    Posted on 2008-12-11
Source: Montclair Times Community Online
An 80-year-old woman died after being hit by a car last night, Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7:20 p.m., according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.... Full story...

Enhanced surveillance video helps ID suspect in Irvington slaying    Posted on 2008-12-10
Source: The Jersey Journal
Investigators in Essex County used an enhanced surveillance video to identify a man they say killed the owner of a convenience store in Irvington last year.... Full story...

Police: Hillside man fatally shot ex-girlfriend, self    Posted on 2008-12-09
Source: The Jersey Journal
A Hillside man shot his estranged girlfriend to death at her Newark home early today before turning the gun on himself, authorities said.... Full story...

NJ couple claims $126M Mega Millions jackpot    Posted on 2008-12-08
Source: Daily Record
TRENTON, N.J. -- Clelia Lopes walked around north Jersey with a winning lottery ticket in her purse for days this summer before realizing the stub was worth much more than the paper it was printed on -- $126 ...... Full story...