NJ State Police Sgt. Stephen Napoli shed light on what it’s truly like to be at the scene of a roadside incident By Sgt. Stephen Napoli, New Jersey State Police As a seasoned officer who has served 22 years with the New Jersey State Police, I’ve witnessed firsthand some perilous scenes that unfolded on […]
MOUNTAIN LAKES, NJ — The Shabazz High School football team fell to Mountain Lakes 49-12 in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Group 1 state playoff semifinal on Friday, Nov. 17. It’s only been a week since “The Pride of The South Side” claimed the 2023 NJSIAA’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state […]
Heroin, marijuana, ecstasy and pill making equipment were seized and two people arrested when police executed three search warrants in Irvington and Newark. Essex County Sheriff Armando B. Fontoura announced that the department’s Bureau of Narcotics conducted the raids, making arrests and seizing weapons, ammunition, narcotics, drug paraphernalia and cash. Sheriff’s detectives seized seven weapons […]
BUTLER, NJ — The Malcolm X. Shabazz High School football team won the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 state championship. The Shabazz Bulldogs defeated the Butler High School Bulldogs, 40-13, in the championship game on Friday night, Nov. 10, at Butler. Shabazz improved to 8-3. Butler moved to […]
NEWARK – The Millburn High School football team defeated Barringer High School, 34-26, in triple overtime on Saturday, Oct. 7, at Schools Stadium in Newark. It’s week 6 and the push for the 2023 New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association’s group state football championships has begun. Teams are jockeying for the coveted 16 spots in […]
Coach USA will stop running its bus routes from Orange, East Orange and South Orange to Newark on Oct. 8. “We attempted to find a solution that would allow service to continue but none prevailed,” said Dan Rodriguez, vice president of public affairs at Coach USA. “Routes managed by operators such as O.N.E Bus, DeCamp […]
NEWARK, NJ — Picture this, an all-out shootout with firepower to change the momentum in both halves of the game. On one sideline, one team was playing without their head coach and defensive coordinator in attendance, while on the other sideline, the other team featured a new quarterback as they were playing their notorious second […]
By Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, NJDOT Commissioner The start of a new school year is just a few weeks away and with that we will see an increased number of motorists on New Jersey’s roadways. Between hurried school runs, residents returning from vacations, and buses trying to stay on schedule, the pace of activity on our highways, […]
The body of Lt. Gov. Sheila Y. Oliver will lie in state in both the Rotunda of the capitol building in Trenton and the Essex County Historic Courthouse before her funeral and memorial service takes place on Saturday, Aug. 12, at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. The Rev. Al Sharpton, president […]
Problems at the printing plant where our newspapers are printed have caused a delay in their distribution. Subscribers to the News-Record of Maplewood and South Orange, The Glen Ridge Paper, West Orange Chronicle, Irvington Herald, The Independent Press of Bloomfield, Record-Transcript and Union County LocalSource should receive their newspapers in Friday’s mail. We apologize for […]