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As Cory Booker (pictured) cruised to victory in Wednesday’s special election to fill the late New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg’s seat, what legacy has Newark’s mayor left behind in the state’s largest city? RELATED: Newark Mayor Cory Booker Wins Democratic Senate Primary During his two back-to-back terms in office, starting in 2006, Booker has made headlines […]

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Gemar Mills’ (pictured) resume reads like someone who is much older. At 22 years old, he was already a high school math teacher at Newark’s Malcolm X Shabazz High School, eventually creating a 70 percent standardized test pass rate; by 25, he was the school’s department chair of Mathematics. Within a year of acquiring the position, […]

NEWARK, N.J. – Americans living and working in New Jersey’s largest city were subjected to surveillance as part of the New York Police Department’s effort to build databases of where Muslims work, shop and pray. The operation in Newark was so secretive even the city’s mayor says he was kept in the dark. For months […]

NEWARK-Frank Lucas, the former heroin kingpin of New York City and the man who’s life is told in “American Gangster,” starring Denzel Washington is charged with theft by deception for deceiving the U.S. Treasury. Authorities claim that Lucas claimed he lost a Social Security check and received a new one and then cashed them both. […]

NEWARK, N.J. — In an ambitious plan to boost the performance of Newark’s struggling schools, schools superintendent Cami Anderson hired a host of new principals, many of them young, to run nearly a quarter of the city’s schools. Some believe Anderson’s dramatic approach is unfounded and likely to fail. While others believe the plan is […]

Ever since Newark Mayor Cory Booker took office in 2006, he’s dazzled voters with his inspiring rhetoric, down-to-earth mingling with the masses on Twitter, and his ambitious ideals and goals for a city where progress seemed far out of reach. But as the mayor’s popularity has catapulted him into the national spotlight and instigated talk […]

Educators and officials in Newark, New Jersey are optimistic about the city’s public schools progress since new superintendent Cami Anderson begun; and a year after Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million to the district. Already, three new alternative schools have been opened with the Facebook money. At the same time, teachers seem to […]

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 Mayor Cory Booker vetoed an ordinance Tuesday that would force eateries to post an armed guard during late-night hours of operation. An off-duty police officer was killed in a drive-by shooting as he waited for his food at a late-night pizza place earlier this month, prompting implementation of this new measure. But Booker says […]

A night of violence left one dead and 12 wounded after three separate shootings ravaged Newark, New Jersey this past weekend. Police are looking for suspects in each of the incidents. A 15-year-old died and eight people were wounded in the South Ward. Authorities say the victims ranged in age from 12 to 32 and […]

NEWARK — A Newark Little League coach Kevin Waters, 54, was brutally attacked on a baseball field, leaving him with a fractured skull, a concussion and two missing teeth. Waters, who served as president of the West Ward Little League for 13 years, is said to be the only thing that separates his young players […]

After countless weeks of speculation, Newark Mayor Cory Booker today quelled rumors of a possible U.S. Senate run in 2012. The Newark Star-Ledger reported earlier this week that sources close to Booker’s camp were thinking of running against U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez next year. A Booker fundraiser, Bari Mattes, formed a federal political action committee […]