TRENTON, NJ — Former Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced on July 14 the arrests of 31 individuals — including a West Orange man — who are charged with sexually exploiting children online. The 31 men were arrested in “Operation 24/7,” a collaborative operation launched to address the continued spike in reports of potential threats […]
NEWARK, NJ — Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo Jr. officially dedicated the Essex County Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Building and a new 22-foot statue of the civil rights leader on Thursday, June 17. The 150,000-square-foot building houses 11 new courtrooms for the Superior Court, Essex Vicinage, as well as new workspace for several […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The 30 honorees in the 2019 class of the East Orange Hall of Fame were announced on Friday, Oct. 4, in the Jean L. James Auditorium at Cicely Tyson School and Performing Arts Center, 35 Winans St., East Orange. The gala induction ceremony, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m., […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — On Friday, Jan. 25, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II issued a public response to the recent “Force Report,” published by NJ Advance Media, which details the results of the media outlet’s five-year study on the use of force by New Jersey police. Stephens said his office has been “carefully reviewing” […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — According to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II and East Orange Police Chief Phyllis Bindi, a member of the East Orange Police Division was involved in a shooting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, which the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has been called in to investigate. On Wednesday, Nov. 14, Stephens announced […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — The East Orange Hall of Fame’s second induction ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing and Fine Arts theater, will conclude the city’s Thanksgiving and Alumni Weekend celebration. That includes the annual football game between East Orange Campus High School and Barringer […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — At a press conference in the Cicely Tyson School of the Performing and Fine Arts on Wednesday, Oct. 10, acting Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens and the other members of the East Orange Hall of Fame Selection Committee, along with Mayor Ted Green, East Orange Superintendent of Schools Kevin West and […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange Hall of Fame Committee members, including Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens, were scheduled to host a press conference on Wednesday, Oct. 10, announcing the induction of the second class Saturday, Nov. 24. Last year, at its inaugural ceremony, the Hall of Fame inducted the following East Orange natives: actor […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has arrested a suspect in connection with the Friday, Aug. 17, homicide of a woman whose body was dumped on Krotik Place in Irvington and originally identified as the township’s fifth homicide of the year. It was later revealed she had actually been killed in Orange. On […]
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange suffered its fourth homicide of the year on Wednesday, Sept. 5, but police work by members of the East Orange Police Division resulted in the apprehension and arrest of a suspect that same day. On Wednesday, Sept. 5, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and East Orange […]