Ras Baraka Sworn In As Newark's New Mayor
Former councilman Ras Baraka, 45, took the oath of office Tuesday during a ceremony in front of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
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Former councilman Ras Baraka, 45, took the oath of office Tuesday during a ceremony in front of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
So far this year, police have arrested more than 240 people on misdemeanor charges related to acrobatics. This time last year, police had made fewer than 40 such arrests.
There is a call to shut down an old gun range in Greenburgh after a bullet fragment grazed a nearby resident last week.
Officials believe the surgical sterilization of female deer is the best solution to its population problem, calling it a good middle ground between killing the animals and doing nothing.
A tentative release date has reportedly been announced for the Johnny Depp-as-Whitey Bulger film that has been shooting in and around Boston.
Tonight in New York City: Celebrate this first day of July with a night of Shakespearean Star Wars, watch the best of the best battle it out at the Air Guitar Semifinals, or take a free yoga class while overlooking the New York Harbor.
Noel Estevez, the 14-year-old Bronx student accused of fatally stabbing a classmate, was indicted Monday on a charge of manslaughter – a lower charge than he initially faced.
Millions of soccer fans have been in the heat of World Cup fever lately, and it has turned out to be big business for restaurants and bars in the city.
Couples spend months preparing for their wedding days, and for many people it is one of the biggest days of their lives.
Thousands of people gathered on Monday to mourn the loss of a young college student who was shot and killed while sitting in his car.
At CBS 2's request, the 911 tapes were released Monday documenting frantic calls for help as a fire raged through a Newark home earlier this month, leaving six people dead.
Gilad Shaar, 16, Naftali Frankel, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19, disappeared while hitchhiking home near the West Bank city of Hebron late at night on June 12 and were never heard from again.
The 5-4 ruling in the so-called "Hobby Lobby" case upheld the right of the Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby craft stores -- 600 nationwide -- to opt out of a provision of Obamacare that mandates free birth control.
A woman surrendered to police in South Jersey Monday, in connection with an attack on another woman that was caught on video as the victim's 2-year-old son tried to defend his mother.
Friends and family members of a 64-year-old alleged rape victim expressed frustration Monday that the case against a male nurse accused in the crime has not moved forward.
