New Jersey

Students who abruptly switched all-remote at more than 100 New York City public schools in neighborhoods where positivity rates soared a month ago can return in person Monday, following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision last week to ease restrictions in certain cluster zone areas while extending them in others. He has championed the effectiveness of his micro-cluster strategy as “focus zone”…

A former inmate at New Jersey’s Fort Dix facility conspired to smuggle contraband into the prison by way of drone, federal prosecutors announced last week. Prosecutors allege 27-year-old Johansel Moronta worked alongside three other men in a scheme to deliver contraband to inmates at the federal prison; charges have already been filed against the other three, they say. Moronta’s...

Four suspects were taken in custody following a deadly shooting near the Meadowlands Complex in New Jersey, authorities said. The shooting that left two people dead reportedly occurred late Sunday in the parking lot of the sports complex, according to state police. One of the victims was pronounced dead at the scene and the other died at Meadowlands Hospital. East…

Black Lives Matter protesters have been marching down the streets of Englewood, New Jersey, every weekend for months without any incident, but what transpired at a protest Saturday has ignited new calls for an investigation into police officers’ conduct. Demonstrators who were outside Mackay Park that evening say a confrontation between two teenage girls led police to shut down the…

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

New Jersey’s toll of 1,909 new COVID-19 infections Saturday was the most it had seen in a day since early May.

A man was arrested in connection with a blaze at a New Jersey apartment building that left two men dead and multiple other people injured, authorities announced late Sunday night. Brandon Adams, 34, was charged with two counts of first-degree felony murder, a release from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said. The release said authorities determined Adams, who is homeless,…

Four suspects are in custody following a shooting near the Meadowlands Complex in New Jersey.

Chief of staff Mark Meadows says the government won’t “control” the coronavirus pandemic as health officials warn of a potentially dangerous winter.

A suspect is in custody after officers say he stole a marked car in New Jersey and led police on a chase to Brooklyn. In the span of roughly half an hour, officers pursued a stolen vehicle out of Bayonne and chased the suspect until he crashed around 1 a.m. after leading police through at least two boroughs of New…

A suspect is in police custody after officers say he stole a police car in New Jersey and led officers on a chase to Brooklyn. Myles Miller reports.

An artist political display that sits in the front window of a New Jersey store has been called “outrageous,” “racist” and even “pro-Trump.” The reactions to the provocative art piece displayed in the window of a boutique furniture store in Montclair are strong. The piece features brown skinned baby dolls locked inside a cage with a Trump campaign sign as…

New Jersey and New York each reported nearly 2,000 positive cases of the coronavirus on Saturday, daily totals that haven’t been as high for each state since May, data collected from each state shows. Gov. Phil Murphy marked his state’s seventh straight day of more than 1,000 cases of the virus by extending New Jersey’s public health emergency declaration...

Leaders in New Jersey are sounding the alarm as new cases in the state hi their highest level since May. Anjali Hemphill reports.

New York state COVID hospitalizations topped 1,000 Friday for the first time since late June, while New Jersey hospitalizations hit a three-month high on the same day, likely a lagging effect from the case increases both states have been battling. In New York, the overall infection rate remains low, below 1 percent excluding the hotspot areas, which still have comparatively…

One bill requires facilities to maintain a minimum staff-to-patient ratio at all times, while the other requires facilities to create policies to avoid social isolation of residents and enable better communication with loved ones

The rise in New Jersey’s coronavirus cases is hitting schools in Woodbridge Township hard. Sarah Wallace reports.

An art display that sits in the front window of a Montclair store is stirring up controversy, but some weren’t sure whether the piece — which shows brown dolls in a cage with a Trump-Pence sign in the background — was for or against the president. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Authorities seized over 21,000 single-dose wax folds of heroin, some of which contained fentanyl and some of which was stamped with the same brand names that have been linked to eight fatal overdoses in the state

According to the preliminary investigation, the officer was responding to a report of a crime in progress and had activated the emergency lights on his patrol vehicle when he hit the woman