The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed a published report that three individuals have been apprehended in connection with the fatal shooting…
Category: Public Safety
KPD: In the wrong at ShopRite
A shoplifting suspect escalated the charge against him from theft to robbery last week when he allegedly assaulted two ShopRite employees…
N.A. man charged in hit-run
NORTH ARLINGTON – For nearly a week, law enforcement was hunting the hit-run driver who allegedly struck a 22-year-old woman…
Handgun recovered after disturbance on NJ Transit bus in Nutley
A disturbance on an NJ Transit bus on Washington Ave. led to the arrest of a Newark man on an…
2 drug suspects nabbed: LPD
LYNDHURST – Two men were arrested last week on drug charges after their car was stopped for a motor…
Kearny driver dead after GSP accident
A Kearny man was killed in the aftermath of a single car accident on the Garden State Parkway…
Inferno on the Turnpike
KEARNY – A tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed on the N.J. Turnpike in Kearny last week,…
Fatal shooting still mystery
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville Police Department’s Homicide/Major Crimes Unit and Essex County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating a fatal shooting in the…
KPD: From a beer to a drug bust
A man drinking a can of Budweiser on the street led last week to the arrest and subsequent incarceration of…
Don’t text yourself into a traffic stat
You’ve heard of distracted driving. How about distracted walking? We had our first encounter with the latter a couple of weeks…
It’s Chief Hearn from now on
NORTH ARLINGTON – A veteran of the North Arlington Police Department, John Hearn was sworn in Friday as the department’s…
Campos still unfit for trial, court rules
JERSEY CITY – A court has, once again, concluded that Carlos Campos, charged with the slaughter of three family members…
Video shows tanker truck that exploded yesterday trying to avoid mattress on NJ Turnpike
A stunning video taken by Kevin Hauer shows the tanker truck that exploded yesterday on the…
KFD welcomes all to Open House
TOP photo courtesy KFD, remaining photos by Karen Zautyk Scenes from the Kearny Fire Department’s…
KPD: In parking lot, a lot of drugs
Surveillance of a suspicious car in the Walmart parking lot paid off big time for the Kearny Vice Unit last…