Jersey City

Four Jersey City men, ages 19 to 26, were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old Bayonne girl who they met after she ran away from home earlier this month, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced Tuesday. Nasire Williams, 26, was arrested Thursday and charged with second-degree sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child in the third degree,…

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Pictures from the scene show goats grazing the backyard, close to chicken carcasses; another photo shows a dead pigeon nailed above a door

NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

New Jersey officials did not violate the state constitution when they took the full pension earned by a municipal inspector who admitted taking a $300 bribe.

Prosecutors have announced the arrests of two suspects in a New Jersey shooting in May that killed two men and wounded four other people. The Hudson County prosecutor’s office said federal marshals arrested 21-year-old Cooleone McNeil of Jersey City at a movie theater in Elizabeth on Thursday. Omire Rios-Williams, 19, had been arrested in June in Allentown, Pennsylvania and was…

An NYPD lieutenant was shot in the ankle while scuffling with an armed man around midnight Friday in the Bronx, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said. NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

Molly Barth and her boyfriend use the extra bedroom in their Jersey City apartment as a home office, which has been key during the pandemic.

A 53-year-old Jersey City woman has been charged with concealing human remains after the body of a 78-year-old woman was found in her apartment Saturday night following a three-hour standoff, prosecutors said Monday. Cheryl Gatling also is accused of possessing a knife for unlawful purposes and making terroristic threats in the case. Attorney information for her wasn’t known. According...

A woman accused of sparking of massive fire that left dozens of people homeless in Jersey City was arrested late Friday, prosecutors said. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

Prosecutors announced the arrest of a woman suspected of intentionally starting a fire that spread to several buildings in Jersey City earlier this month that displaced 33 residents. The prosecutor’s office identified Diane Stiles as the primary suspect in a notice Friday morning asking for the public’s help to locate her whereabouts. Several hours later, they said she had...

The last day of school at a New Jersey Catholic school was marked by controversy, after an assignment — which school officials said was taken out of context — had parents and police demanding action be taken.

Parents at a high school in Jersey City were concerned after a screenshot of a history assignment asking students to “Find a famous case of a lynching…and compare it to a famous case where an African American was slain by a police officer” was circulated online. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A man stabbed and injured a woman and two young children inside their northern New Jersey apartment before killing himself with the knife, authorities said. Jersey City police responded to the apartment shortly after 7 a.m. Monday and found the 54-year-old man with a knife wound to his throat. He was pronounced dead a short time later. A 29-year-old woman…

Heavy smoke took over the air in the Port Liberte neighborhood of Jersey City after a fire broke out at a recycling plant. The plumes could be seen all the way in Brooklyn. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Two people are dead and several more injured after an eruption of gunfire in Jersey City late Friday night. Prosecutors in Hudson County say the first reports of shots fired in the area came in around 11 p.m. near Crescent Avenue and Brinkerhoff Street. Investigators were able to determine at least six people were injured in the gunfire, two of…

Surveillance video from inside a Jersey City restaurant showed a teenage girl who had just given birth walk inside and hand her newborn child to a customer — then walk out the door.

Surveillance video at the Jersey City restaurant shows a 14-year-old girl who had just given birth walk inside, hand the baby over to a customer, and then leave. Thankfully, the woman knew exactly what to do to care for the minutes-old child. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

The doctor’s office staffer admitted that from 2008 to August 2017, she accepted at least $219,000 in cash payments and other bribes — such as expensive meals and designer bags — to steer prescriptions to a pharmacy in Union City

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