Jersey

WABC-TV (NEW YORK) — Police in Fort Lee, New Jersey, fatally shot a woman who was experiencing a mental health crisis on Sunday, the state attorney general’s office said. The woman has not been publicly identified. The incident is now under investigation. Fort Lee Police Department officers responded to a home at about 1:25 a.m. […]

Nassau County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly flying to Florida and attacking a fellow gamer with a hammer over an online dispute, authorities said. The two had never met in-person before the suspect showed up at the victim’s home in Fernandina Beach over the […]

kali9/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey man has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his mother to death while she slept, police say. The attack took place in the early hours of Monday morning at approximately 1:30 a.m. when 25-year-old Robert Parody of Howell Township, New Jersey, reportedly entered his mother’s bedroom on Porter […]

Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake rocked the Northeast Friday morning, shaking buildings from Philadelphia to New Jersey and New York City to Connecticut and Westchester, New York. The earthquake was centered near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, and could be felt as far south as Washington, D.C., and as far […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New Jersey man motivated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel “devoted himself to waging violent jihad against America and its allies” and sought to join a foreign terror group, federal prosecutors in New York said Friday. Karrem Nasr, 23, was arrested in Kenya earlier this month […]

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The New Jersey attorney general’s office and the Bergen County prosecutor’s office are investigating whether any influence was exerted by anyone in connection with the way a 2018 car crash involving the wife of Sen. Bob Menendez was investigated by local police in Bogota, New Jersey, sources familiar […]

Russ Heller/Facebook (MILFORD, N.J.) — New Jersey leaders are mourning the loss of a councilman who was killed in what police said was a targeted workplace shooting on Wednesday. Russell Heller was fatally shot outside utility company PSE&G’s Somerset Central Division Headquarters in Franklin Township, where he was the senior distribution supervisor, officials said. Heller, […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 30-year-old woman found fatally shot in her Sayreville, New Jersey townhouse complex has been identified by local officials as Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour. She was shot while inside her white SUV, which appears to have then crashed on Samuel Circle at around 7:22 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said. She sustained […]