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 ...

A Licking County jury found a Newark woman guilty of stabbing and killing her faither in August 2024 in Newton Township.

More details have emerged about a fatal police shooting in Newark on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

More than 80 people crowded the steps of Newark Police Headquarters on Wednesday for an emotionally charged protest demanding the city fire an officer involved in the fatal shooting of a Newark ...

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 ...

Rashanna James-Frison, a college freshman, who’s written a book of poetry and launched an effort to distribute it to 1,000 Newark 8th graders. The poems reflect her history losing both parents to ...

Last week, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka reported a 19% drop in crime and an all-time low in the murder rate while announcing the city’s 2025 crime figures at the city’s police academy. But for some, those ...

When Newark police arrested and beat a Black taxi driver during a routine traffic stop on July 12, 1967, the incident ignited ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Donnette Goodluck tried all day to pick up the free bottled water the city was distributing as officials addressed a growing lead contamination crisis. When she first arrived at Boylan ...