The 2-year-old girl who was killed by a United States Postal Service truck in Elizabeth on Monday has been identified.
A 2-year-old-girl was killed after the impact of being struck by a mail truck caused her to be tossed from her grandmother’s arms.
Just one week after scammers took thousands of dollars from an 85-year-old woman, a new pair of tricksters victimized her for a second time.
The driver had been arrested ”well over” 30 times for offenses such as grand larceny, robbery, and drug offenses.
The girl was transported by ambulance to the University Hospital in Newark and is being treated for a mild concussion and broken femur.
On Sunday, a 69-year-old man was found dead with an apparent self-inflicted gun shot wound to his head.
The Elizabeth man convicted for seven separate homicides in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania was previously arrested three times.
Fair Lawn teen serving as volunteer counselor at summer program accused of sexually assaulting girl, 6, police report.
Single mother Deborah Osmentand her son lost almost everything they own in the three alarm fire that destroyed their rental home.
The 24-year-old history teacher had sexual relations with a 17-year-old student at the Middlesex County school, authorities say.
An Elizabeth man is among three men charged in killings which investigators have described as ‘random’ in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Is Westfield’s infamous stalker a woman?
South Jersey man indicted for stabbing death of girlfriend and her son before lighting house on fire, prosecutor says.
Police say they broke up a drug ring, arrested a man on stalking and murder charges, and are investigating a luring attempt.
Two men have been arrested and charged for the 2008 backyard shooting in Linden resulted in the death of an 18-year-old man...
A state probation officer, who lives in Union County, was indicted Friday, authorities said.
A doctor has been sentenced to five years in state prison after he conspired with a drug dealer to write fraudulent prescriptions.
Duo allegedly forced teen girls into prostitution, prosecutor says.
Arthur N. Ernst III, 28, role-played as a teenage boy and sent obscene images of young men to teen girls, including his students, police say
Within 90 minutes, three men lost their lives and one was critically injured due to shootings in four separate locations.
Authorities are investigating a fatal shooting that took place in Elizabeth early this morning.
A 44-year-old scientist was arrested and charged with multiple drug offense.
With the help of Facebook, Linden Police Officers were able to identify a lost 4-year-old boy who was alone on Saturday.
Three days after a couple closed on their $1.3 million “dream home” in Westfield, disturbing letters began to show up from “The Watcher".
Homeowner walked in on masked, armed man who hit resident before fleeing, cops say; two face deportation after prostitution bust.
Here is some recent police news from Central Jersey.
A teen girl hid when a Newark man forced his way into her Woodbridge home, police said. He was quickly arrested, authorities said.
A 90-year-old man died in the accidental carbon monoxide poisoning and his wife is in the hospital, according to published reports.
He pleaded guilty to the distribution of a prescription painkiller that he obtained by using false prescriptions from a Union County doctor.
Cops: closed store thwarts alleged armed robber, duo lies about being robbed, end up arrested on drug charges.
Law enforcement officials will be cracking down on drunk drivers as part of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign.
The former president of a parent-teacher organization in Union County has been charged with stealing from the organization.
The Union County Prosecutor’s Office announced the county’s Homicide Task Force is investigating a homicide in the county.
A Morristown 18-year-old is in critical condition but expected to recover after the fight at a Seaside Heights motel, authorities said.
A 73-year-old Union County woman has been charged in connection with the stabbing death of her 80-year-old husband.
Seven people from two states have been charged in a fraud ring that generated more than half a million dollars in cash and merchandise.
Annual ‘Click It or Ticket’ campaign brings extra patrols to town.
A Union County man allegedly robbed one bank and attempted to rob a second at gun point.
The man was transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.