East Orange

A Manchester cop is attacked by a pit bull while chasing a suspected heroin dealer, and a Lakewood woman and an East Orange man are charged with opiate possession, in two episodes on the same day in the township.

EAST ORANGE — The mother of a 4-year-old who was accidentally shot by his 6-year-old brother in their home last week will be able to attend his funeral Friday. Itiyanah Spruill tearfully pled not guilty on Tuesday in Superior Court to weapons and child endangerment charges...

Authorities say a 6-year-old New Jersey boy playing with a gun fatally shot his 4-year-old brother in the head.

East Orange police and investigators with Essex County's Major Crimes Task Force are investigating the shooting.

Three Aberdeen men and an alleged cohort from Essex County risk life in prison if convicted of leading a massive heroin network in Monmouth and Middlesex Counties.

A Toms River woman convicted of using her job as a loan officer in Forked River as the gateway for a 15-million-dollar mortgage scam draws a three-and-a-half-year prison term.

The thief who admitted robbing a South Toms River shop at gunpoint in December 2012 is sentenced to seven years in prison.

The dragnet is widening for the suspect in a weekend armed robbery in Point Pleasant Beach. Authorities say that Ali Muhammad Brown is also wanted in connection with three homicides in Washington State.

Two Asbury Park men and 19 others are charged in what federal agents say is a major heroin and cocaine trafficking ring infiltrating Monmouth and Ocean Counties and stretched from Jersey City to Barnegat and as far away as California.

Charges filed against two top executives in the East Orange Water Commission bear an eerie resemblance to circumstances that irrevocably changed life in Toms River.