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A 9-year-old girl died following a fast-moving house fire in Newark on Monday morning that also left two other children critically injured, officials said. The fire was first reported shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Astor Street, between Brunswick St and Sherman Ave. Neighbors rushed to the home to help the family trapped inside, knocking on doors and screaming for everyone…

A nine-year-old girl died in an early morning fire in Newark, New Jersey on Wednesday. News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The Newark fire department’s lack of training and familiarity with marine firefighting during a deadly cargo ship fire at the East Coast’s largest port in July 2023 amounted to a “failure of leadership,” the head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The board met publicly in Washington to unveil its findings about the inferno inside the Italian-flagged...

A Newark police officer was killed and another officer suffered critical injuries in a shooting in New Jersey’s largest city Friday evening. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

Police took five people into custody, including the 14-year-old who was charged with murder.

A Newark police officer was killed and another officer suffered critical injuries in a shooting in New Jersey’s largest city Friday evening, according to the police union and officials. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports. 

A Newark police officer was killed and another officer suffered critical injuries in a shooting in New Jersey’s largest city Friday evening, according to the police union and officials.

Newark police are investigating after three people were shot Wednesday morning near West Side Park, officials said. Two women and one man were injured in the shooting, which happened around 10:15 a.m., according to Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda. Miranda said police located a man and woman on the 600 block of South 17th Street and a third victim,…

A suspect was arrested in connection with a shooting that killed a 9-year-old boy in Newark, law enforcement announced.

Family members were mourning the shooting of a 9-year-old boy in Newark following a shooting that also injured an adult man. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports. 

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted a raid on a business in Newark in an effort to detain unauthorized immigrants, according to the mayor of New Jersey’s largest city.

News 4’s Gaby Acevedo reports. 

Authorities in Newark are searching for whom they say is a pet thief who snatched a dog from a front yard Saturday. The incident took place Saturday at around 3:30 p.m. It was at that time when the alleged victim let her black-and-white, shaggy coat Shih Tzu poodle mix out in the front yard of her home on Norfolk Street,…

Inflation rates have had a huge impact on almost all aspects of our daily lives — from mortgage rates to the price of groceries. While the U.S. inflation rate has hit a 40-year high after the pandemic, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center study, it has cooled down thanks in part to the Federal Reserve rate hikes. However, inflation…

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The car had been traveling down Raymond Boulevard toward the Route 1-9 southbound on-ramp when “it somehow went off the roadway, became airborne, and struck a support column for the Pulaski Skyway.”

Investigators were working to determine how a car went airborne and crashed in Newark late Friday night, killing all six people inside the vehicle.

Police have not yet released the identities of the six people killed in a fiery late-night crash in Newark on Friday. News 4’s Chris Jose reports. 

New Jersey investigators said six people died late Friday night after their car crashed into a support column for the Pulaski Skyway and caught fire.  The crash happened around 10:45 p.m. in Newark, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said, near the intersection of Raymond Boulevard and Blanchard Street. The car had been traveling down Raymond Boulevard toward the Route...

New Jersey investigators said six people died late Friday night after their car crashed into a support column for the Pulaski Skyway and caught fire. News 4’s Jessica Cunnington reports.