Bloomfield

A former New Jersey Transit bus driver who caused the death of a passenger who was dragged when his arm became trapped in the bus door has been sentenced to five years in state prison.

Bloomfield Police said a man was hiding inside his apartment’s wall HVAC vent for hours in an effort to avoid bail enforcement officers. Officials said they were called to West Lane to assist 47-year-old Juan Vasquez, who appears to have been stuck in the wall. Bail enforcement officers were at Vasquez’s house earlier in the day Wednesday to serve...

Two men were killed in a shooting early Saturday after an argument broke out at a Connecticut bar, police said. Police said the two men were at Elizabeth’s Bar & Restaurant in Bloomfield when they got into a dispute with another person at the bar. Police said the fight spilled outside to the parking lot and shots were fired....

A four-alarm fire ripped through a row of stores in Bloomfield, New Jersey, early Monday, appearing to completely gut the businesses. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

A four-alarm fire ripped through a row of stores in Bloomfield, New Jersey, early Monday, appearing to completely gut the businesses. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Firefighters were called to the scene on Washington Street around 9 a.m. A florist shop appeared to have been the ignition point, but hot dog and ice cream shops also take up…

A former NYU graduate student was arrested in a raid of a suburban New Jersey house where police allegedly seized nearly a million dollars worth of meth Monday night.

Divorce can be simple or it can be messy. For some, it’s become a little more urgent. The $1.5-trillion tax overhaul includes the end of a 75-year-old deduction on alimony payments, to kick in at the close of this year. Recipients will also no longer have to claim such payments as income. The impact of the change depends entirely on...

The insurer Cigna will spend about $52 billion to acquire the nation’s biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie-ups as health care’s bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs. Including $15 billion in debt, the proposed $67 billion acquisition follows a deal announced late last year in which the drugstore...

For over a decade, Charles Crenshaw has been paying his ex-wife tens of thousands of dollars annually in alimony. The now-retired engineer is hoping to renegotiate the agreement for lower payments, but he’s waiting first to see what comes of a tax reform proposal in Congress. Under a House Republican tax plan that would eliminate the deduction for alimony payments,...

A Brooklyn comedian was forced to duck for cover as bullets rang out in a New Jersey comedy club as she was just five minutes into her comedy set.

A Michigan woman thought to be the nation’s oldest veteran died Sunday at age 110, about a month after she met with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, The Associated Press reported. Emma Didlake, of West Bloomfield, joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 at age 38. She served about seven months stateside during the war as a...

An “American Idol” hopeful from New Jersey died and five friends were injured when their SUV flipped in a high-speed crash on Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania Sunday as they returned from the reality show audition, police said.