Elizabeth

Efforts to resettle some of the thousands of Afghan refugees already in New Jersey were hit with a snag in Elizabeth, where the city's Democratic leader recently said severe storm damages had already exhausted local resources.

A pregnant woman who has two children told NJ.com that firefighters told them to keep holding onto trees during the deadly flooding on September 1st.

FIve people were found dead at the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in Elizabeth in one incident while three people drowned in Hillsborough in separate incidents.

Yajaira Moreno was found dead in her home Tuesday night and Juan Alvarado located nearby with fatal stab wounds.

That brings the number of alleged victims of Joseph Centanni, 74, of Mountainside, to 20, and the number of criminal charges against him to 35.

A horrific situation involving the death of a toddler, who first fell from a house window and then was mauled by dogs, was being investigated Thursday by the Union County Prosecutor's Office.

Paul J. Schappe, Jr. also exposed himself in Linden's Clifford Lawson Memorial Park on another occasion, according to investigators.

Amid the news that immigrant detainees would no longer be held in Newark, a number of activists were far from happy, saying the change wasn't enough.

A newlywed husband and wife intent on fighting for the Islamic State group were arrested Thursday at Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal as they attempted to board a cargo ship that an undercover law enforcement officer said would take them to Yemen, prosecutors said.

A landlord was arrested Friday on several charges for allegedly coercing more than a dozen of his tenants into sexual acts in exchange for financial relief.