Disgraced influencer Jay Mazini and an associate have pleaded guilty in a North Jersey kidnapping case that saw one of the social media star’s rivals beaten and held at knifepoint with a machete. The Edgewater star potentially faced decades behind…

A state appeals court has rejected Passaic County’s bid to toss out a $3.4 million jury sum awarded to a Newton motorcyclist, who successfully sued the county over a patch of potholes that caused him to swerve and crash in West Milford. The decision,…

A retired Rochelle Park cop can continue her gender discrimination lawsuit against the Police Department, a state appellate court decided last week, overruling a Bergen County judge who dismissed the case in 2019. The alleged harassment Donna Porcaro…

A New York man was found guilty on Monday of robbing rapper Safaree Samuels at gunpoint in 2018, stealing $180,000 in jewelry off the music star during a holdup in Fort Lee. Tacuma Ashman, of Irvington, New York, was one of three men involved in…

One by one, the high school players gathered outside the Wyckoff church on Saturday, clad in their green and white jerseys. Ramapo football has endured heartbreaking losses before. Never one quite like this. The team had lost a coach, a mentor, an…

A Sussex County man pleaded guilty on Friday to crashing into a Wayne gas station in February 2019 while high on heroin, killing three people. Jason Vanderee will face up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced in January on three counts of…

New Jersey residents surrendered 2,806 firearms last weekend in the largest single-day gun buyback held in state history, state officials said Thursday. Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck stood before a sea of assorted weapons to announce the…

Fresh off a prison stint for stalking a married mother, Christopher Greig searched her Facebook page for new pictures, prosecutors said. What followed were dozens of phone calls and text messages that included sexual texts and pornographic images,…

BERGEN, N.J. — The notorious North Jersey serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, whose frenzied crime spree in 2016 left three women dead, will spend the rest of his life in jail after being sentenced to 160 years in prison, a judge ruled…

The notorious North Jersey serial killer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, whose frenzied crime spree in 2016 left three women dead, will spend the rest of his life in jail after being sentenced to 160 years in prison, an Essex County judge ruled…

A judge on Friday gave a Jersey City man 26 years in prison for attempting to stab his female co-worker to death in her Rutherford driveway. The “vicious and depraved attack” warranted the maximum sentence on attempted murder charges against Gabriel…

The state Supreme Court this week dismissed disciplinary charges against a Bergen County attorney who landed in ethical hot water over a Facebook friend request sent to dig up dirt on his opponent. In a unanimous decision, the court wrote that John…

The state Supreme Court has upheld New Jersey's first socially distanced jury trial, a Bergen County case, despite legal challenges that picking jurors virtually would create younger, economically privileged juries. In a unanimous decision, issued…

There’s no use crying over spilled marinara, unless you're from New Jersey and the beloved sauce gives you second-degree burns. That’s what happened to a Bergen County woman, who claims she dropped a cup of the scalding-hot sauce on her lap while…

Former Mahwah councilman Charles Jandris was spared prison time on Friday after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. A Bergen County judge sentenced Jandris, 56, to five years of probation over the illegal images authorities found on his…

Bergen County’s first criminal trial since fall ended Wednesday with guilty verdicts against the Jersey City man who stabbed his female co-worker 17 times in her Rutherford driveway. After a month of testimony in Hackensack, a socially distanced jury…

As millions of New Jerseyans migrate from home offices to their pre-pandemic workplaces, one hot button question that might seem controversial actually has a simple answer. Yes, your employer can require proof of vaccination, legal and public health…

The Carlstadt man who fired gunshots out of frustration over his neighbor’s loud party will serve 364 days in county jail for the incident, a Superior Court judge ruled. David Knoll appeared before a Bergen County judge for his sentencing on Friday,…

A Bergen County case could decide the future of trials in New Jersey with virtually picked jurors, a practice necessary to hold trials during the pandemic but controversial for its potential to create younger, economically privileged…

A judge in Passaic County on Tuesday ordered a Clifton cop to remain jailed indefinitely on charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old relative, assaults that allegedly occurred over a two-year span and included letters on Valentine’s Day. The…