Two teenagers, one of them legally an adult, have been arrested stemming from a backyard shooting last month that left one young child and four adults hurt.
Authorities are investigating a backyard shooting in which two unknown gunmen opened fire on a late night celebration, wounding five people — one of them a young child.
FIve people were found dead at the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in Elizabeth in one incident while three people drowned in Hillsborough in separate incidents.
Two bodies found in the Passaic River this week have been identified as two friends who went missing amid torrential flooding caused by Hurricane Ida, moving the storm's death toll in the Garden State to 29.
As residents and businesses across New Jersey spent the holiday weekend trying to clean up damage from last week's storm, rescue workers resumed the search for two friends whose car was caught up in the floodwaters.
A full year since the pandemic hit, tens of thousands of residents remain left out of COVID relief, according to advocates who rallied in North Jersey.
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.
Over 800 people in NJ have been asked to quarantine themselves because of possible exposure to the new coronavirus, which as of Saturday morning had sickened four known people in the state.