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Officers freed the driver moments before the car vanished beneath a retention pond in the 55-plus Renaissance community.
The crash at McCarter Highway and Chester Avenue marks yet another fatal rollover on Newark's most dangerous corridor.
Two vehicles burned near Finnegans Lane while a driver was pulled unconscious from the flames. Route 1 remains shut in both directions.
Police searched for days before finding the 17-year-old hidden inside his mother's East Brunswick home the whole time.
A judge cited 2011 Georgia kidnapping and assault convictions in ordering Raoul Lynch detained despite a pretrial recommendation for release.
A mother says her son's first varsity tackle was overshadowed after a referee used a racial slur twice in the Metuchen locker room.
A man allegedly punched and pepper-sprayed a woman on the No. 25 bus after she bumped his child. Police want the public's help finding him.
Both women worked as teacher's assistants and were arrested after a state child welfare tip. The daycare's name still hasn't been made public.
Abdalwali Alsaidi turned himself in Friday after a Wyckoff police and county investigation that began in July 2025.
Raquel Chowanec accused Edward Stack of a year of harassment, including an explicit birthday voicemail. The county settled in April.
Bayonne's superior officers union says Deputy Chief Andrew Quinn pressured tickets and leaked drug test tips. Complaints went straight to county prosecutors.
Larry Burney died in a South Woods prison cell in 2005, unaware genetic genealogy would one day tie him to William Jenkins's 1982 murder.
Kevin Wunk, 36, was caught in Glen Rock after a head-on wreck on Lincoln Avenue. His record includes a 2024 drug arrest and pending August charges.
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