Two vehicles were hit by debris during the noisy display at the base of the Victory Bridge in Perth Amboy with a "minor" crash involving a car that was fleeing the area.
Two Plainfield men will likely spend the rest of their lives behind bars for shootings in 2021 that led to the permanent paralysis of one victim and the death of a 24-year-old woman.
A stabbing in a park following a "violent altercation" sent a Plainfield High School student to a hospital Wednesday afternoon, according to superintendent Rashon Hasan.
Plainfield Planning Board member Carmencita Pile is facing calls to resign for making jokes about calling ICE on protestors at Queen City Street Fair Saturday.
A man charged in connection with stolen cooking oil urinated and spit in the back of a police vehicle and threatened to kill the officer who stopped him.
The arrests range in age from 18 to 72 and included both men and women — a dozen of them have alleged gang affiliations, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens said.