Union County

The retired Clark Police Lieutenant who recorded racist and sexist remarks by Clark’s mayor says prosecutors in New Jersey have dropped the ball. “The handling of the investigation is lacking. They were in possession of evidence that showed racism and gender discrimination and they did nothing,” said Antonio Manata. Manata claims the Union County Prosecutor’s Office, now led by...

The retired police lieutenant who recorded shocking, racist comments by Clark, New Jersey, mayor has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that the Union County Prosecutor’s Office retaliated against him for being a whistleblower. Antonio Manata tells NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst that civil rights violations and harassment have been unaddressed for years and prosecutors have failed to hold leaders accountable....

A New Jersey man is behind bars and facing murder charges for allegedly killing his girlfriend early last month. Prosecutors in Union County say 36-year-old Schwnaire Jones died on Dec. 5 after a driver intentionally hit her on King Street in Hillside. Jones was found laying on the sidewalk with critical injuries by police around 9:30 p.m. Officials say she…

A grand jury has indicted a former New Jersey police sergeant and youth sports director on 16 counts involving serious sexual crimes against four children, prosecutors in Union County announced Tuesday. Edward Giles, a 61-year-old who spent 30 years with the East Orange police department prior to his initial arrest in October 2019 faces a multitude of charges including first-degree…

The quiet suburb of Westfield was left on edge by the shocking attack of a woman inside her home, but police said they have arrested a 22-year-old suspect in the case. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Prosecutors in New Jersey say the man behind an armed home invasion has been arrested and charged for sexually assaulting a woman in one of the state’s higher-end income communities earlier this weeks.

Anyone who sees someone who looks like this person should not approach him, authorities say, but contact their local law enforcement offices instead.

The entire neighborhood of Westfield is on high alert after a home invasion and sexual assault, in which the suspect allegedly followed the victim as she went for a run and attacked her as she returned home. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Startling security footage shows Ida’s floodwaters break through a basement wall, filling the bottom floor of the Cranford home and trapping a mother and son inside. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

Ankle-deep water had already covered the basement floor of the Valle family home on Wednesday before the unthinkable happened: Ida’s floodwaters broke through a wall and trapped half of the family downstairs. The collapse of the basement wall, caught by a security camera inside, could have been deadly to a Janice Valle and one of her sons. In a...

A New Jersey town on Tuesday dropped sanctions against a woman who got into hot water for displaying profane signs attacking President Joe Biden. A municipal court judge in Roselle Park had ordered Patricia Dilascio to remove the signs or face a $250-a-day fine, citing an ordinance banning the display of obscene material. The town is about 12 miles southwest…

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…

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...

A New Jersey woman says she’d rather pay a fine than take down signs in support of the former president that hang outside her home — but those who want them gone say it has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with profanity.

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

A wild kidnapping case came to a quick end in a New Jersey town late Thursday after a teen lifted a car with a 2-year-old baby sitting inside.

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.

New Jersey’s Supreme Court held that a trial judge unfairly prevented the convicted robber from acting as his own attorney at his 2017 trial for a stick-up that went awry

The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) is investigating a cluster of Legionnaires’ disease — a bacteria-triggered form of pneumonia — in Union County in which at least 14 cases, including one death, were confirmed. The cases were reported to the state’s Department of Health between Feb. 3 and Feb. 26, according to officials. Health officials are working with the…