An NJ Transit bus driver from Bloomfield was arrested Tuesday while trying to board a plane at Newark Airport in connection with the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian late last year, authorities said.Fayola Howard, 34, dragged 55-year-old Kevin Thomas on Sanford Avenue approaching Mt. Vernon Place in Newark on Dec. 29, 2019, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.Thomas died of his ...

A Rahway woman is accused of stabbing her mom to death over the weekend, authorities charged.Malika Jones was being held in the Union County Jail on murder and weapons charges in connection with Sunday's fatal stabbing of her 57-year-old mom, Inell Jones, Acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo said Tuesday.The pair were arguing at a house on the 100 block of East Albert ...

A Hudson County Exxon statoin sold its second winning lottery ticket in less than three weeks.The ticket from Monday's Jersey Cash 5 drawing worth $130,746 was sold at the 60th Street gas station, owned Ramirez & Sons Service Station.The Exxon station also sold a winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket worth $216,368 at the end of January.This week's winning numbers ...

A Bronx man was among three people taken into custody after leading police on a pursuit through Morris County and then crashing in Bergen Monday afternoon, authorities said.Winston G. Lyons, 20  -- the driver of the black Infiniti wanted in connection with an undisclosed investigation out of Chatham Township -- was being held in the Morris County Jail on charges of eluding and ...

Tops Diner: If you know, you know.The East Newark eatery that opened on Passaic Avenue in 1942 has become a local institution. The diner is representing New Jersey on the Daily Meal's list of "The Best Brunch in Every State" -- but it isn't the first time Tops has been named to this annual list, or similar ones."All the expected diner classics are on offer here, expertly prepared, ...

The future was looking bright for Cody Diorio of Cedar Grove. Then, on Feb. 8, tragedy struck.The 27-year-old had just become an uncle and landed a job at Ralph Lauren when he fell down a flight of stairs at a friend's house."There was no open wound on his head and thought he was fine," Gerard Benanti said on a GoFundMe that had amounted nearly $64,000 for the family as of ...

A 46-year-old Short Hills man suffocated to death after falling through a gap in a chairlift and became trapped with his coat around his neck at a Colorado ski resort, authorities said.Jason Varnish's death last Thursday at Vail Mountain's Blue Sky Basin area was ruled an accident, the Vail Daily reports.The chairlift's folding seat was in its upright position, leaving an opening that ...

A plane landing at Newark Airport was met by police after a female passenger made a bomb threat in the air.Authorities removed the woman from United Flight 2329 from Chicago after landing at 9:40 p.m. a TSA spokesperson said.Officials swept the plane and found nothing dangerous on board. The woman was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.New York Daily News Knicks writer Stefan ...

A Middlesex County teacher who has coached wrestling at more than a dozen New Jersey schools is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager, court records show.John M. Denuto was suspended with pay from his job as a special education math teacher in Sayreville, reports say.He was arrested Saturday and charged with possession of child pornography, the sexual assault of a teenager and ...

TikTok users were making memorial duets using footage posted by Morris County middle schooler Maya Guberman.The Roxbury Junior Gaels cheerleader and Eisenhower Middle School eighth grader died on Feb. 13, at 13 years old.More than $41,300 had been raised as of Sunday on a GoFundMe launched by her aunt, Dana Guberman Taggart, a longtime school teacher in town.The Toms River native was a ...