Plainfield

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.

Plainfield Mayor Adrian Mapp, who is Black, has listened to the secretly recorded tapes that purport to catch racist and sexist comments made by Clark Mayor Sal Bonaccorso. Mapp calls it "reprehensible" and says Bonaccorso should resign.

Authorities say two suspects wanted for allegedly shooting and killing a man in North Jersey earlier this month have been arrested.

While the cause of death is still being investigated, foul play is not suspected, according to authorities.

The deadline for the population count has moved frequently but is finally set: 6 a.m. Friday on the East Coast.

MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP — A Union County man drowned Saturday in a body of water dubbed "Crystal Lake" at a sprawling privately-owned former mining site that has been the site of other drownings, township police said. Edwin Caballero, of Plainfield, visited the Heritage Mineral property that spans 7,000 acres on Saturday afternoon, according to Manchester Township Police Capt...

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.

ICE announced the arrests of more than 100 foreign nationals in New Jersey, many of them with criminal records, in a nearly week-long sweep of the state.