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Federal authorities have filed a lawsuit accusing a northern New Jersey landlord who rented to low-income residents of demanding sex from residents on multiple occasions in exchange for assistance

The loved ones of those who died of COVID-19 at an Elizabeth nursing home will rally to demand answers from the staff and state on Thursday. The gathering comes as staggering number of deaths have been reported at nearly all New Jersey nursing facilities. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

Officials say cashless tolling and wider lanes have made the Goethals Bridge a safer place for motorists

Congregants who attend a New Jersey church that was destroyed in a fire on Sunday have vowed to rebuild the historic house of worship.  A four-alarm fire tore through Shiloh Baptist Church in Elizabeth around 3:15 a.m. on Sunday, leaving it “pretty much destroyed,” Elizabeth Fire Department Chief Thomas McNamara said.  On Sunday evening, a GoFundMe was set up...

A four-alarm fire destroyed a church in Elizabeth, New Jersey overnight, officials said.  Fire officials received a call reporting the blaze blaze at Shiloh Baptist Church in Elizabeth around 3:15 a.m. Sunday. At one point, the church was fully engulfed in flames, video from the scene shows. A building next door was evacuated as a precaution, officials said.  Church...

A four-alarm fire destroyed a historic church in Elizabeth, New Jersey overnight Sunday. Ken Buffa reports.

A historic church in Elizabeth, New Jersey was reduced to rubble after a massive fire. Ken Buffa reports.

A fire at a northern New Jersey rooming house that displaced more than two dozen residents on Wednesday apparently was sparked by fireworks being shot off outside the building. The fire at the three-story house on Westfield Avenue in Elizabeth broke out around 4 a.m. and quickly spread through the building, sending heavy flames and thick smoke spewing from the…

Un incendio envolvió en llamas una planta de reciclaje en Woodbridge, Nueva Jersey. La ciudad de Nueva York emitió un aviso diciendo que los residentes de Staten Island pueden ver u oler el humo ante un poderoso incendio en una planta de reciclaje de Elizabeth, Nueva Jersey. Los videos y las fotos capturados del área circundante y publicados en las…

A 16-year-old riding an electric scooter has died in a collision with a tow truck just weeks after the Lime scooters hit the streets of Elizabeth, New Jersey.

A multi-alarm fire broke out in a residential building in northern New Jersey Wednesday afternoon — and kept burning late into the night

Gov. Phil Murphy says New Jersey Transit and Amtrak are about to begin repair and rehab work at a handful of rail stations across the state.

A property manager at a northern New Jersey apartment complex stands accused of stealing more than $120,000 from an elderly tenant’s bank account to pay for lavish vacations and designer clothes

A property manager at an Elizabeth, New Jersey, apartment complex took $122,000 from the bank account of an 89-year-old woman who lives there, using the money on lavish trips and clothing, among other things, according to prosecutors. NBC 4 New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

A New Jersey team will face off a New York one in the Little League Mid-Atlantic regional final Saturday — bringing the ultimate winner a step closer to competing in the Little League World Series.

36 Jewish protesters were arrested Sunday after a group of 200 blockaded the entrances to an ICE detention center in Elizabeth, NJ.

Rutgers University says the chancellor of its Newark campus has apologized over video that surfaced showing her yelling at campus cops investigating a fender-bender earlier this year.

The chancellor apologized after a video showed her berating a campus officer after the car she was riding in bumped into another officer’s car. NBC 4 New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

More than 20 years after a barely 2-year-old New Jersey boy vanished near his home, prosecutors reissued a call Monday for information from the public in hopes of cracking the now decades-old cold case.