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Former “Fugees” singer Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison and three months’ home confinement for failing to file tax returns for several years. 

A World War II military dog tag was returned to its owner, Willie Wilkins, during a city hall ceremony. Wilkins, 90, dropped the tag while a soldier in southern France in 1944.

A Weequahic High School student was shot and killed blocks from the school  just minutes after he had signed himself out for the day due to illness.

Five people, including a 10-year-old girl, were shot after an unknown assailant opened fire during an impromptu vigil on S. 16th Street.

Ten people, most of them children and infants, were hurt after the compact car they were travelling in struck a fence.

A Helen Place man was hospitalized after trying to stop a carjacker from stealing his vehicle out of his driveway.

The owner of a number of convenience stores -- including two in Newark -- was charged with fraud for allegedly allowing customers to purchase electronics and other non-food items with federally issued food stamps.

A Paterson man admitted he shot and killed Michael Morgan, a Newark police detective, outside a Paterson go-go bar in 2011.  

A city man was hospitalized after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend, her two older children and then himself during a domestic dispute at the woman’s Mapes Avenue home.

A ShopRite supermarket will anchor a Springfield Avenue site that will also include other retail stores and scores of apartments.

A grade school went on lockdown after three people rushed inside the building while trying to flee from two other men. The intruders were not armed and the students were never in danger, officials said.

A former schools advisory board president and assistant state attorney general, Shavar Jeffries, announced his run for mayor in 2014.

A baby girl who was found in the shallow water of a bathtub at her foster home died. Officials said the death appeared accidental.

Essex County College held its graduation ceremonies this month.