NEWARK, N.J. — The mayor of New Jersey’s biggest city says a shooting near a children’s toy gun exchange event illustrates just how vital such initiatives are to curbing the cycle of violence. Several dozen children clutching water pistols and cap guns were lined up Monday in Newark to exchange their fake weapons for books […]

NEWARK — The violence that broke out on St. James Place here on Friday morning had a familiar ring.

New Jersey — Seven people were shot, three of them fatally, in an explosion of violence in Newark on Thursday evening. The bloodshed was part of a spate of shootings and violent carjackings — including the carjacking of a state official — in the city over the last month. The latest eruption began about 4:30 […]