Newark

Mayor Ras Baraka said the city removed the statue that has stood in Washington Park since 1927 in order to avoid the risk of people taking it down on their own.

Three people who were shot in two separate incidents around midnight Tuesday are all expected to survive according to Atlantic City police.

From parents of high schoolers to first-generation college grads, there are lots of folks not willing to give up on their 'dream' just yet.

Veteran Newark police officer Sgt. Michael Clegg is the second city cop to die in the past two weeks due to complications from the COVID-19 virus, his family told Newark police.

Roughly 100,000 New Jersey students still lack internet access and even more need a device to log on for school work.

Police in New Jersey continue to enforce Gov. Murphy's stay-at-home orders and price-gouging laws. Violations this week ranged from kicking a soccer ball on a field to attempted rape of an 11-year-old girl.

Hospitals have a worst-case plan of action for deciding priorities of treatment, as the state Department of Health issued its guidance April 11 on the "allocation of critical care resources" during a public health emergency.

As medical teams have been uprooted from normal routines to meet the critical demands of COVID-19, elective surgeries have been postponed in New Jersey until further notice.

Families of special-needs students still face some massive unknowns when it comes to the "new normal," which could last until the end of the school year.

Officials in Essex County are scrambling to find a woman who tested positive for the new coronavirus but who provided authorities with a false name and address.