Atlantic City’s casinos could reopen with restrictions by the Fourth of July weekend, among other loosening of the statewide coronavirus lockdown involving dining, shopping and personal care, Gov. Phil Murphy said Sunday.Murphy already has said he’ll permit daycare centers, non-contact sports and youth day camps to reopen soon.Outdoor dining, non-essential retail shopping, “some” ...

A 15-year-old Paterson boy and a Garfield man were both carrying guns when they bailed out of a car that crashed during a late-night police chase, authorities said. That made five guns in all seized by Paterson police amid a series of shootings that left one man dead and 13 victims wounded in less than a week.Sgt. Christopher Ravallese and Detective Salvatore Marotta were on ...

Paterson police seized five guns in three days – three in the hands of juveniles and another on a convicted carjacker just released from prison -- amid a series of shooting in the city, authorities said.Hearing several gunshots Thursday night, Detectives William Hermann and Anthony Castronova rushed from Clinton and North 11th streets to North 8th Street, where they spotted city ...

A three-time armed robber asked Jersey City police how they could be sure that he wasn’t infected with the coronavirus, then spit in an officer’s face, authorities said.Jose Rios, 51, used a gun in two holdups and a knife in another, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.After suggesting that he could be infected, Rios of Jersey City said that police would soon find out – then ...

Paterson police detectives on COVID-19 enforcement duty crashed a daylight drug deal, seizing 742 heroin folds, dozens of containers of crack and a loaded gun, authorities said.They arrested three men and seized an underage teen who they said was carrying the weapon.******ALSO SEE: A 15-year-old Paterson boy and a Garfield man were both carrying guns when they bailed out of a car ...

Peaceful protests across the country have been "hijacked by outside radicals and agitators exploiting the situation to pursue their own separate and violent agenda," Attorney General William P. Barr said Saturday.Meanwhile, President Trump called on "Liberal Governors and Mayors” to get “much tougher” in dealing with protesters “or the Federal Government will step in and do what has to ...

A public letter from New Jersey's 21 county prosecutors promises that members of law enforcement in the state will treat citizens "fairly and justly" -- and that those who don't will be held accountable.The letter from the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey, released Saturday morning, comes in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of police in Minneapolis and an ...

A judge in Hackensack has rejected a Fair Lawn dispatcher’s claim that borough officials conspired to keep him from getting police jobs.A lawsuit filed by Andrew Flax alleged that a report was deliberately placed in his internal affairs file detailing a three-week suspension following an alleged rape at a bachelor party at the borough’s Rescue Squad building.This prevented him from ...

No fewer than three separate shootings overnight in Paterson wounded four men in one and forced the street outside St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center closed in another.Struck on 10th Avenue near East 23rd Street shortly before 1:30 a.m. were three city residents – 32, 28 and 22 – and a 32-year-old man from Newark.Two of them were taken to St. Joe's, and the other two arrived via ...

The driver of one of two SUVs involved in a chain-reaction crash in Wayne died Friday, authorities said.A gray-colored Honda CRV driven by Antonio R. Cruz, 38, of Wayne, was headed east on Ratzer Road near Garside Avenue when it struck a utility pole around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.Cruz was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, where he was pronounced ...