State officials have ordered a city charter school closed less than a year after it was founded in August 2012.
A 25-year-old was killed Friday night in a shooting that also injured another man. Earlier in the week, a man was fatally shot on Chancellor Avenue.
A slate of three candidates, The Children First Team, each won a seat on the Newark School Advisory Board
A suspect in a 2010 murder was accidentally freed by the Essex County Jail but turned himself in the following day.
A veteran Newark police officer faces fraud and arson charges after authorities said he had his SUV torched and filed a phony insurance claim
The Newark Police Department increased patrols in heavily trafficked areas following the bombing at the Boston Marathon Monday. Police said the increased security was just a precaution and not related to a specific threat within the city.
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