Jersey City

A Jersey City police officer was arrested for allegedly attempting to sexually assault a pair of underage girls after traveling over 100 miles to pick them up, state prosectors say. Stephen Wilson, 34 and an officer of the Jersey City Police Department, was arrested Friday after driving to Atlantic City with the intention to pay other adults to gain access…

The New York Young Republican Club hosted a large indoor gala with little-to-no mask-wearing or social distancing in Jersey City Thursday night, drawing fierce criticism from New Jersey officials Friday.

Police in Jersey City shot and wounded an emotionally disturbed man who law enforcement sources said may have threatened his family with a knife

It’s now official! The son of the Garden State’s own legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen is now a Jersey City firefighter. On Tuesday, Mayor Steven Fulip and Public Safety Director James Shea swore in 15 new firefighters to the Jersey City Fire Department. Twenty-five-year-old Sam Springsteen was among the new firefighters. He was accompanied by his proud parents — Springsteen and…

For many, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. For others, not so much. It all depends where you celebrate Christmas, according to a recent study. WalletHub looked at a variety of factors to determine which cities are the best to celebrate the Christmas holiday. To determine the ranking, WalletHub compared the 100 biggest cities in the country based…

Candles burned atop a menorah in Jersey City marking the first night of Hanukkah as well as a moment of strength for a community still recovering from the deadly attack on Dec. 10. Yoely Greenfeld lit the menorah Sunday night in front of Jersey City Kosher Supermarket, the site of a horrific shooting that took the life of his sister…

A bail hearing for a man whose number was found in the pocket of one of the perpetrators of last week’s fatal attack on a Jewish market was halted after prosecutors said they had evidence he was selling firearms from his pawn shop

New video shows the moment the Jersey City shooters stormed into the Kosher market, before blasting at the helpless victims inside. The surveillance video obtained by NBC News is shot from above the entrance to the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive. The U-Haul truck shooters David Anderson and Francine Graham were driving in, which New Jersey Attorney…

Hate-fueled domestic terrorism motivated the harrowing and prolonged shooting attack that killed three people inside a Jersey City kosher market and took the life of a veteran police detective earlier this week, New Jersey’s top prosecutor said Thursday. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, who a day earlier outlined a timeline for what has been called a targeted attack...

UPDATE: Hate Against Jewish People, Police Fueled Jersey City ‘Domestic Terror’ Attack, New Jersey Attorney General Says The two people who stormed a kosher grocery store in Jersey City with rifles, killing three people inside and also murdering a veteran detective, have been identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, four law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News…

A police officer and three civilians were killed during a shootout in Jersey City which also left the two suspects dead, law enforcement officials said. According to senior law enforcement officials, the Tuesday afternoon shootout began when a detective saw a U-Haul truck possibly linked to the murder of a livery driver over the weekend in Bayonne. As the officer…

The deadly shooting rampage at a New Jersey kosher market has cast a spotlight on a fringe movement known for its anti-Semitic strain of street preaching and its role in a viral-video confrontation at the Lincoln Memorial this year. Investigators believe that the man and woman who killed three people at the Jersey City grocery Tuesday in addition to gunning…

A 39-year-old Jersey City police detective and father of five. A “caring and nurturing” mother of five who moved to Jersey City from Williamsburg. The “devoted” son of a community leader. A Brooklynite. They are the four innocent people gunned down when a rifle-wielding duo stormed a kosher grocery store in what authorities have described as a “targeted” attack —…

Two rifle-wielding individuals parked a van — with a crude pipe bomb inside — outside a kosher grocery store in Jersey City Tuesday, calmly got out of their vehicle and immediately opened fire on people inside the store, authorities said the next morning, reiterating their claim the market was “clearly” targeted. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and Public Safety Director…

NBC 4 reporter Adam Kuperstein was giving a live on-air update on an active shooter situation in Jersey City this afternoon when gun shots began to intensify, sending him and a video journalist running.⁠

Police responded to a standoff with at least one armed suspect in Jersey City, N.J., on Tuesday. As many as six people, including at least one law enforcement officer, were killed in the shooting.

A Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse in Buffalo, New York, has himself been accused of sexual abuse of a child, an attorney for the alleged victim notified the church this week.

Valerie Harper, who scored guffaws, stole hearts and busted TV taboos as the brash, self-deprecating Rhoda Morgenstern on back-to-back hit sitcoms in the 1970s, has died. Longtime family friend Dan Watt confirmed Harper died Friday, adding the family wasn’t immediately releasing any further details. She had been battling cancer for years, and her husband said recently he had been advised...

Valerie Harper, best known for her role of Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died at 80.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump joined Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the Pentagon on the 16th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Trump, a native New Yorker, spoke out against the “savage killers” who perpetuated the attacks, saying “America cannot be intimidated.”