A homeless man who hadn't seen his daughters in 24 years -- and who had never met some of his grandchildren -- was reunited with them with help from a concerned NJ Transit police officer, the agency said. Transit police in the Secaucus Junction station found 61-year-old Jose Lopez, who is homeless, Aug. 6. The former Monmouth County resident had traveled from Miami to meet with his ...

Dean Angelo Caraacciola, a lifelong Nutley resident, died Aug. 9. He was 16 years old. Born in Livingston, he was part of the fourth generation of his family to call Nutley home. A junior at Horizon High School in Livingston, he was an avid fan of the New York Yankees and the New York Giants. Gifted with an ear for music, he loved to hear his father play acoustic guitar and enjoyed ...

The Transportation Security Administration is looking for the owner of a nonvenomous snake that was found near a security checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport Monday night. The 15-inch ring-necked snake, which is black and has a yellow band of coloring on its neck,  was seen by a child in Terminal C. A TSA officer grabbed the snake and placed it in a checkpoint ...

A spokeswoman for NJ Transit blamed "human error" for a frightening incident Monday evening, when the doors opened on the wrong side of a train at the Secaucus Junction station, sending a man spilling out. The man was not seriously injured and declined medical attention. The incident occurred aboard a North Jersey Coast Line shortly before 6 p.m. The train was stopped at the ...

An Edison man who previously pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in a shooting that left one dead and two wounded in Plainfield was sentenced Friday to 23 years in prison, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said. Jordan Robinson, 25, must serve at least 85 percent of the sentence under the state's No Early Release Act. On Nov. 6, 2015, gunfire broke out on the 300 ...

A woman from Elizabeth was arrested in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania over the weekend for allegedly leaving three children -- including an infant -- unattended in a car while she visited a casino. WFMZ-TV reports that Milady Borda, 38, was arraigned Sunday morning and charged with two felony counts of child endangerment and a misdemeanor count for the same offense. Surveillance ...

A pedestrian died Monday night when she was hit by a Hudson Bergen Light Rail train in Weehawken, NJ Transit said. The woman was hit around 11 p.m. near Port Imperial Boulevard. No one aboard the Hoboken-bound train was injured. The identity of the woman was not immediately available Tuesday morning. The incident is under investigation, NJ Transit said. Check back ...

Two men have been sentenced after they were seen selling drugs from a Newark street corner two years ago and found in possession of multiple weapons, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey said. Jesse Tullies, 54, of Hillside, received a sentence of nearly 20 years on drugs and weapons offenses. Newark resident Eugene Williams was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison. Essex County ...

A man who was in a Maplewood home when two armed intruders entered early Monday morning grabbed one of the robber's guns and fired it, sending them running,  one of the victims told WABC 7. Two masked men dressed in black entered the Lombardy Place home around 3 a.m. and demanded money at gunpoint, a woman who lives there told the station. The woman's fiance grabbed one ...

A GoFundMe campaign has been started on behalf of Daniel "Dannyboy" Sirovich, a Kearny native who died Wednesday while vacationing on Ibiza off the southern coast of Spain. He and his fiance Kristi Kelly had been climbing Pedrera de Cala d’Hort when he slipped and plunged more than 80 feet, loved ones said. He was 34 years old. An off-duty nurse who happened to be at ...