A former powerful Newark city official faces years in prison for taking cash bribes and jewelry from two businessmen in a corrupt redevelopment scheme.
Republican lawmakers in Trenton are blasting New Jersey's largest school district for hosting an expensive staff event while other school districts are struggling to cope with massive drops in state aid.
Authorities are offer a reward of tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who helps investigators find who shot a Newark imam to death outside a mosque in January.
Essex County correctional officer Sherman Bardouille, 31, from Irvington, and Tamir Lee, 42, a from Newark, were riding eastbound near Exit 43 in Berkeley Heights at the time of the crash Sunday evening.