Newark police

Police in New Jersey’s largest city is asking the public in helping them identify a man on a skateboard who they say sucker-punched a senior citizen unconscious on a busy street in broad daylight Monday.

A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and nine-year prison sentence of a former Newark police officer in alleged kickbacks to the former head of the city’s scandal-ridden water corporation. Janell Robinson, 46, was sentenced a year ago on mail fraud and conspiracy convictions and was ordered to pay restitution of about $289,000. She was accused of paying about…

A teenage boy driving a stolen car in New Jersey’s largest city crashed into an unmarked police vehicle while trying to avoid officers, injuring a detective, authorities said. The crash in Newark occurred around 2:25 p.m. Sunday. The 17-year-old driver was sitting in the parked car — which had been reported stolen out of Southampton, New York — when he…

An off-duty Newark police officer fatally struck a man walking on a highway shoulder then drove around with the man’s body and visited his mother looking for advice, according to charges released Wednesday.

An off-duty Newark police officer fatally struck a man walking on a highway shoulder then drove around with the man’s body and visited his mother looking for advice, according to charges released Wednesday.