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An Essex County man who worked as a federal labor inspector has admitted to plotting with his brother to scam three construction companies out of about $14,000 in cash.

Federal authorities say the president and a top officer of a real estate investment company have been charged for their roles in a scheme to defraud more than 2,000 investors in a $650 million Ponzi scheme.

The cause of a nearly weeklong water emergency in one of the state's most populated counties was a rusted bolt that in a 100-year-old water main that burst in Nutley.

Surveillance video captured a man filling his shopping cart with nearly $2,000 worth of merchandise and leaving without paying.

The charges have already been dismissed.

A teacher who threatened to "shoot up" her preschool was charged after police searched her home and found three legally owned guns.