Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Violent crime in Newark fell 19% in 2025, with the number of murders hitting yet another historic low of 31 as of Tuesday, despite ...

(AP) Democratic Mayor Cory Booker is dealing with a surge in crime in his city with six weeks left in his campaign for a U.S. Senate seat. Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, with 250,000 residents, ...

Crime in Newark is on the decline, according to new data from the city’s 2025 end of year crime statistics. Officials said that despite a deadly mass shooting in the city in November, homicides had ...

Four people have been arrested in connection with last month’s Newark shooting that killed three people and wounded two others, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday. Prosecutor ...

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The state Senate’s Judiciary Committee has passed a bipartisan bill that could create a new crime of political violence and establish an independent review board, the bill’s sponsors announced on Dec.