Man Dead After Being Found Naked, Beaten On Newark Street
A man has died of his injuries after being found naked and beaten on a street in Newark earlier this week.
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A man has died of his injuries after being found naked and beaten on a street in Newark earlier this week.
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Forty-eight people, including a juvenile, were arrested in following a five-month investigation into drugs and violence in Essex County, New Jersey.
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The search is on for four men in a series of early-morning armed robberies in Newark, police said.
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The shooting happened on South 11th Street around 10 p.m. Thursday.
Dorothy Williams, 80, was found Thursday evening in front of a home on Garfield Avenue in Jersey City, according to officials at the New Community Extended Care Facility, where Williams lives.
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The rain came down in buckets across the Tri-State area early Sunday evening.
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Four people have been arrested in connection with the Mother's Day shooting that claimed the life of a 15-year-old boy in Newark. Two face murder charges.
A Blairstown, New Jersey man admitted Tuesday to leading a group that stole heavy machinery from construction sites in the state and sold the equipment out of a vacant lot in Newark.
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You send your children off to school and hope they are safe inside their classroom, but such was not the case for a Newark first-grader who was attacked with a box cutter.
A man was struck and killed by a garbage truck Wednesday in Newark, authorities said.
Police were searching Monday for the person who shot and killed a 45-year-old man in Newark this past weekend.
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A Brooklyn high school football player was fatally shot by a teammate while they were passing around a gun for fun, officials said.
An investigation is underway following the discovery of a possible pipe bomb inside a home in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn on Wednesday morning.
The bodies of the two pilots killed when an Air Canada plane collided with a Port Authority truck at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday night are to be transported back to Canada on Wednesday.
At least 27 early childhood education centers across the city are vacant, NYC's deputy chancellor of the Division of Early Childhood Education said.
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What started as a sinus infection left a Long Island teenager fighting for his life, requiring emergency brain surgery.
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Heights University Hospital, formerly known as Christ Hospital, shuttered its emergency room Saturday night.
New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim is opening up about his father's Alzheimer's diagnosis in hopes of helping others struggling like him to care for their loved ones.
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CBS News announced Friday that CBS News Radio will be shutting down this spring after nearly 100 years of broadcasting, citing "challenging economic realities."
Bodycam video footage of Justin Timberlake's June 2024 DWI arrest on Long Island was released to the media Friday.
Chuck Norris' family said his death at 86 was sudden, but did not share any details on the cause.
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Major League Baseball is set to return to New York City as the New York Mets will take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in their home opener on Thursday.
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