Police are searching for the driver of an allegedly stolen car who crashed into a church building in Essex County, NJ.
A suspect took the beer while the driver was making a delivery, police say.
Firefighters managed to knock down the flames, but not before 32 people had to be relocated to local shelters, authorities say.
Police pronounced the 17-year-old dead about 30 minutes after arriving on the scene.
Find out what Essex County sheriff’s officers recovered during their search of an alleged Irvington gang member’s home.
Authorities say that the 62-year-old Maplewood woman was fatally shot in Newark.
A pair of male suspects grabbed the Maplewood man from behind and took his cash, police say.
Authorities have charged two New Jersey men with a triple murder that took place at a Van Ness Court apartment in Maplewood.
Both suspects in a New Jersey triple murder, considered "armed and dangerous," have been found.
Fire crews on scene included South Orange, Millburn, Montclair, Bloomfield, West Orange, East Orange, Livingston, Nutley and Belleville.
Essex County authorities have identified the victims of what appears to be a fatal shooting, prosecutors say.
Three people were found dead in a New Jersey home on Sunday, and authorities say they are investigating the matter as a triple homicide.
Maplewood police are investigating an alleged slashing that took place near Coolidge Road and Irvington Avenue.
Several witnesses saw the students assault their classmate, Maplewood police say.
Patch reviews this week’s top stories in Maplewood and Essex County.
Police from Maplewood and South Orange will join community partners to host a “Police Encounter Workshop” on Jan. 14.
The Maplewood man promised customers big reductions in their monthly bills, but instead stole their money through Ponzi schemes: Authorities
Watch Essex County firefighters tame a three-alarm blaze in Irvington while coping with the icy New Jersey winter.
It wasn’t a very merry holiday for 3 Maplewood residents who discovered their vehicles stolen on the day after Christmas, police said.
Maplewood police say that package theft reports routinely increase in November and December due to holiday-related internet orders.
Maplewood police say that home burglaries were reported on Warren Road, Parker Avenue and Melman Terrace.
See the totals for the Maplewood Police Department’s November traffic enforcement.
Police have charged an alleged New Jersey gunman with murdering a toddler and his uncle and injuring two others.
Maplewood police are warning residents to be aware of a possible “flim-flam” scam involving an alleged repairman in a Home Depot truck.
The major international carjacking ring stole high-end cars in New Jersey and New York and shipped them to West Africa, prosecutors say.
Authorities have ended their search for a missing elderly Essex County woman who may have dementia, Maplewood police said.
A pair of Maplewood families were displaced after a fire ripped through their Ostwood Terrace home, authorities say.
Police charged the teen in connection with carjackings in Maplewood and Newark and probed his possible involvement with another in Orange.
Maplewood police gave out 204 traffic summonses in one month, authorities say.
“There has been no threat to any of our schools,” police stated.
Maplewood residents reported home burglaries on Harvard Avenue, Oberlin Street and Girard Place, police say.
Maplewood police say that a robbery and two burglaries were reported in the township last week.
A woman was killed in New Jersey after getting hit by a train this weekend, officials said.
An internal police affairs unit is investigating Maplewood officers’ response to a street fight in July, authorities say.
Maplewood police said that cars were left unsecured in all of the reported incidents.
The deceased man reportedly had several brushes with the law, a report says.
Fires took place at the Dollar Tree on Springfield Avenue and a multi-unit Burnett Avenue home, Maplewood authorities say.
Read the Maplewood Police Department’s advice for local bike owners here.
Maplewood residents on Wyoming Avenue and Lombardy Place reported that items were stolen from their homes, police say.
The dogs - adult and puppy boxer mixes - were found “living in squalor in tiny cages and carriers filled with feces,” shelter staff say.