Essex County News

SOUTH ORANGE, NJ - A Seton Hall University student died after falling from the campus' parking deck on Tuesday, according to a letter to the school community from the University's Interim President, Mary J. Meehan Tuesday afternoon.

The student was identified in a letter to the university community as Julian M. Mislavsky.

South Orange Police Officers responded to a ...

NEWARK, NJ - The Interstate 78 eastbound express lanes and West Runyon Street exit ramp will be closed this weekend for repairs, state Department of Transportation officials said.

The closures will start at 11 p.m. Friday and last until 5 a.m. the next day while an NJDOT contractor does priority structural bridge repairs.

Traffic will be shifted to I-78 eastbound local lanes before the ...

NEWARK, NJ - Essex County will no longer hold money in Wells Fargo accounts after clergy from Newark raised concerns about the bank’s aggressive foreclosure practices.

Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. gave a directive to transfer accounts to other banks in June, and announced today that all accounts would be withdrawn from Wells Fargo. The county had about $3.8 million in ...

NEWARK, NJ - The city’s 144 new police recruits sat with stoic faces today as Mayor Ras Baraka offered up a few words of advice before sending them off to training. 

“Trying to reduce crime, while also being scrutinized by the very people you're trying to protect at the same time - it's a difficult job to have,” Baraka said during sending-off ceremony at the St.

NEWARK, NJ - The city put its new fire trucks, street sweepers and garbage trucks on display smack dab in the middle of Broad Street today to announce the shiny, new fleet. 

The city hasn’t bought new fire trucks in about a decade, so the three new custom-made aerial ladder trucks that can extend 110-feet tall were a focal point of the display. The new fire trucks will be used for ...

NEWARK, NJ - Students from comprehensive Newark public high schools earned college degrees at a much lower rate than charter, parochial, vocational and public magnet schools, a new study finds.

About 16 percent of comprehensive school graduates from 2011 went on to earn a bachelor's degree within six years, compared to about 43 percent of Newark Public magnet school graduates, according to ...

NEWARK, NJ - Six years ago Prudential Insurance Company of America received approval for a three-phase redevelopment plan that would transform the city with two new office towers along Broad Street.

In 2015, one of those buildings, a 20-story tower, was completed and opened to great fanfare in Newark.

This past week, the city planning board extended the company's option for a year ...

NEWARK, NJ - James Gist started building homes on the side while managing musical acts like Naughty by Nature, a Grammy Award-winning hip-hop group from East Orange.

Today, redevelopment is his main gig, and his work extends beyond the four corners of the homes he builds in the city’s West Ward. When he stepped outside a three-family home at 454 South 14th St. that he just sold to a ...

NEWARK, NJ — The death of Essex County Undersheriff Kevin Ryan on June 20 was a "devastating loss" for the department and for the county’s sheriff, Armando Fontoura.

“He was like a son to me. He was always the first one on the scene. He was always there to help. It’s just devastating. There is not much more I can say," Fontoura said in a ...

NEWARK, NJ - For Naomi Salazar, a second-grader at South 17th Street Elementary School in Newark, reading isn't just fundamental, it's a foundation of hope. 

"I feel sad that they don't have any books to read, and I want to share my books so they can read them," 8-year-old Naomi said. She and her school are involved in a program to provide books to ...