The state probation officer was charged with accepting bribes from a client who was on probation for drug offenses, officials say.
Under a new plan approved by the Union County Freeholders, only male juvenile offenders will be housed in Union County.
Two men have been sentence to served a combined 95 years in state prison for the 2011 fatal shooting of a 32-year-old Elizabeth man.
The Union County Emergency Response SWAT team has been dispatched to the Villa Apartments on Springfield Avenue.
The Superintendent of the N.J. State Police issued the following response to the normalization talks between the United States and Cuba.
The shooting death of a Middlesex County man in Elizabeth Friday night is under investigation.
Miguel Saldivar-Liberato, 28, of Linden, is the nephew of the admitted mastermind of a series of staged accidents.
The shooting death of a 16-year-old Roselle teen who died from his injuries over the weekend is under investigation.
A Friday night car accident caused the fatality of a 44-year-old Union Township man in Chatham Township.
Union County EMS, which provides support for local responders, has earned this year's Outstanding Public Agency award.
The former treasurer of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Police Athletic League (PAL) was charged today for taking $18,000 from the organization.
Union County woman sentenced to 30 years for bludgeoning her 14-year-old daughter in 2005 could get the chance to withdraw her guilty plea.
The Newark man convicted of fatally shooting an Elizabeth mother of four in 2010 has been sentenced to 40 yearsin state prison.
A 52-year-old former South Plainfield police captain has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sexual exploitation of a minor.
A 38-year-old Newark man has been sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping, robbery, and murder of a Somerset County woman.
More than 4,300 bricks of heroin, a street value estimated at $3 million, were seized from two “fully functional, high-volume heroin mills”
The partial owner of Springfield A.T.A. Martial Arts Academy has been arrested for the repeated sexual assault of a 13-year-old.
Police seek the publics help in locating a man who broke into the residence of a Union County priest and fled when he was found.
Police believe families of Asian Indian descent have been specifically targeted in the recent string of armed home invasions.
Five confirmed members of the gang MS-13, including two juveniles, have been charged with engineering a gang initiation-related murder.
Six arrests were made in Linden and Perth Amboy after police found a kilogram worth of cocaine.
Payments of up to $250 per surrendered firearm will be offered to members of the public participating in a gun buyback program.
Two Elizabeth men have been charged with first-degree felony murder after the attempted robbery of a Brooklyn man went “awry” last month.
Two separate homicides that occurred Sunday in Elizabeth are under investigation.
A 37-year-old Elizabeth man has been indicted for the road rage death of 82-year-old Franceau Belizaire in June.
Two men were fatally shot in separate homicides occurring in Elizabeth Tuesday night, and each incident is under investigation.
A 19-year-old Newark man has been indicted for the shooting death of a 22-year-old Elizabeth man.
A baby was reported missing at Trinitas Regional Medical Center over the weekend.
A 38-year-old Plainfield man has been convicted for the attack of a 60-year-old police officer.
Police need help locating a 18-year-old Pine Hill girl known to frequent the Elizabeth area who went missing last weekend.
A 25-year-old Elizabeth man pled guilty on Monday for the car-crash that killed a FDNY veteran on his motorcycle last October.
A 48-year-old autistic man from Plainfield has been reported missing by the N.J. State Police Missing Persons Unit and Plainfield Police.
A 65-year-old Connecticut man forced a dog from his vehicle while driving along the Garden State Parkway in Clark last month.
Two Plainfield Police Officers were indicted by a Union County Grand Jury for stealing $11,000 by handing in falsified time-sheets.
A 44-year-old Union County man has been charged with the sexual assault of his 6-year-old neighbor.
The Elizabeth man who fled a Union County Court Room after he was convicted of sexual assault was captured in the Dominican Republic.
A 26-year-old Elizabeth man has been convicted of reckless manslaughter - the verdict stems from a 2012 stabbing.
Nikolaos Katogiritis, 47, of Elizabeth fled the Union County courtroom where his guilty verdict was read for a 2012 sexual assault crime.
The two men killed in Saturday night's car crash on Route 22 in Scotch Plains have been identified.
Three Plainfield men were arrested last week after police found large quantities of heroin and cocaine in the suspects apartments.