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January 3, 2024 at 8:19 PM. Police are searching for a gunman who fatally shot an imam outside his mosque in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday, an incident that heightened fears in the Muslim ...
On December 10, 2019, a shooting took place at a kosher grocery store in the Greenville section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Three people were killed at the store by two assailants, David N. Anderson and Francine Graham. The assailants also wounded one customer and two police officers before being killed by police during an ensuing shootout.
On June 8, about 70 protesters marched in Franklin Township, Gloucester County past a group of counter-protesters with All Lives Matter and Trump signs who mockingly re-enacted George Floyd's murder, with one man kneeling on the neck of another. The mayor and police chief of Franklin Township condemned the display.
The Newark Police Department is the largest municipal police force in New Jersey. In 2011 the size of the police department was reduced by 13% (167 officers) as the result of budget cuts. [14] [15] In November 2013, the NPD re-hired five officers who had been laid off, and another four who had previously worked in Camden . [16]
Newark — a metropolis with more than 300,000 majority Black and brown residents — is in the midst of transformational change in public safety, according to a new report released this month ...
December 14, 2023 at 4:09 PM. New Jersey Transit via AP. A bull ran through the train tracks in Newark Penn Station on Thursday morning, causing delays across several of New Jersey's transit lines ...
Murder victim. Sakia Gunn (May 26, 1987 – May 11, 2003) was a 15-year-old African American lesbian who was murdered in what has been deemed a hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. Richard McCullough, was charged with her death and sentenced to 20 years in prison. [1] In 2008 a documentary was released about Gunn's murder, titled Dreams Deferred ...
The Star-Ledger. The Star-Ledger is the largest circulation newspaper in New Jersey. It is based in Newark, New Jersey . In 2007, The Star-Ledger ' s daily circulation was reportedly more than the next two largest New Jersey newspapers combined, and its Sunday circulation was larger than the next three papers combined. [4]