Elizabeth

A huge fire at a Waste Management facility in New Jersey sent thick, black plumes of smoke billowing into the air Tuesday afternoon. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

A body has been found in the charred wreckage of a waste management facility in New Jersey following a raging five-alarm fire a day earlier that spewed thick columns of black smoke into the air, authorities confirmed Wednesday.

A body has been found in the charred wreckage of a waste management facility in New Jersey following a raging five-alarm fire a day earlier that spewed thick columns of black smoke into the air, authorities confirmed Wednesday. The victim has yet to be identified, but authorities say they believe it is the lone worker who was unaccounted for when…

A worker at the facility is still missing, hours after the fire started at the Waste Management facility in Elizabeth. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A huge fire at a Waste Management facility in New Jersey sent thick, black plumes of smoke billowing into the air Tuesday afternoon, and one person remains unaccounted for, according to officials. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A huge fire at a Waste Management facility in New Jersey sent thick, black plumes of smoke billowing into the air Tuesday afternoon, and one person remains unaccounted for, according to officials.

A New Jersey man will stay behind bars after he was charged with attempted murder for allegedly running down a woman at least three times in a road rage incident caught on video. Vincent Jean was ordered held without bail on Tuesday for the April 11 incident in Elizabeth that was filmed by a neighbor’s surveillance camera. The footage shows…

Chris Jose reports.

A New Jersey man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly ran down a woman in a road rage incident that was caught on video. The footage filmed by a neighbor’s surveillance camera shows a car on a residential street in Elizabeth on Tuesday backing up and then chasing the woman onto a front lawn, where she slips...

City officials confirmed the fire spread to at least four homes.

A quick-moving fire destroyed three homes in Elizabeth as local fire departments rushed to get control of the Sunday afternoon blaze. The fire started around 3:30 p.m. on the 100 block Smith Street, before quickly overtaking multiple structures, a spokesperson for the mayor said. Before long the blaze warranted a 4-alarm response, with photos posted to social media showing flames…

A man who has owned hundreds of rental units scattered across 18 residential properties in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $4.5 million in connection to a lawsuit concerning his sexual harassment of tenants and housing applicants for more than 15 years, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Joseph Centanni, 74, of Mountainside, was charged over the summer with sexual…

The owner of hundreds of rental units scattered across 18 residential properties in Elizabeth, New Jersey, who was arrested earlier this year and criminally charged with coercing more than a dozen tenants into sexual acts in exchange for financial relief has been rearrested, Union County law officials announced Thursday. Joseph Centanni, 74, of Mountainside, has been charged with sexual crimes…

Police in New Jersey are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and another hospitalized early Tuesday morning in Elizabeth. Elizabeth police responding to a shots-fired call shortly before 1:30 a.m. Tuesday found 30-year-old Eliezer Martinez, Jr. and a second man who was also an apparent shooting victim on Elizabeth Avenue, having sustained serious injury, according to the preliminary...

The child fell from a window at his home in Elizabeth, and then was mauled by his family’s dogs in the backyard.

A 3-year-old boy in New Jersey died after falling out a window of his home and landing in his backyard, where he was mauled by the family’s dogs, authorities say. Members of the Elizabeth Police Department responded to a home on South 5th Street shortly after 5:25 p.m. Wednesday and found the toddler with serious injuries, acting Union County...

Authorities say the death of a woman whose body was found in a New Jersey parking garage is being treated as suspicious. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office said Monday that the body was reported just after 6 a.m. Sunday in the Hoboken garage. Prosecutors say 34-year-old Jazzlynn Teron of Elizabeth was pronounced dead about a half-hour later. The regional...

New Jersey Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker are pushing for gun violence solutions after the recent mass shootings in the country. Tracie Strahan reports.

A major New Jersey landlord allegedly forced at least 13 tenants into sex for rent relief and there may be more victims, prosecutors say. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

The owner of hundreds of rental units scattered across 18 residential properties in Elizabeth has been arrested and charged with coercing at least 13 of his tenants into sexual acts in exchange for financial relief, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. Joseph Centanni, 73, of Mountainside is charged with eight counts of second-degree sexual assault, one count of second-degree…