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  • 3 days ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky

    Detectives are investigating the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man in Newark on Saturday afternoon, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said Sunday. A spokesperson for Prosecutor Theodore N. Stevens II, identified the victim as Keion Alston. The spokesperson, Carmen Martin, said the shooting occurred just after 5 p.m. on Saturday on Harding Terrace, a residential street a few blocks west of Weequahic Park in the city’s South Ward. Martin said no additional details were available.

  • 3 days ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky

    A worker died at a building being remodeled in Newark’s rapidly redeveloping downtown after he was reported injured in an elevator shaft Saturday morning, authorities said. Newark Police responded to a 9:09 a.m. call on Saturday reporting that the worker was “injured while inside the site’s elevator shaft” of a building at 10 Commerce Court, read a statement Sunday from the city’s public safety director, Emanuel Miranda.

  • 5 days ago | nj.com | Steve Strunsky |Jelani Gibson

    Three members of Congress denied an accusation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that “stormed a gate and broke into” an immigrant detention center just before Newark’s mayor was arrested on Friday. “That’s a lie,” U.S. Rep. Lamonica McIver, D-10th District, said upon reading a statement released by DHS late Friday afternoon. “None of this happened.”DHS issued the statement following the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras J.

  • 5 days ago | nj.com | Chris Sheldon |Steve Strunsky

    Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was released Friday night after being held following his arrest outside the gates of an immigrant detention facility, according to his campaign spokesman, Kabir Moss. Baraka walked out of U.S. Custom Services in Newark shortly before 8 p.m. He was arrested around 2:40 p.m. by ICE officers outside the Delaney Hall immigrant detention facility in Newark after he was physically dragged through the gate and placed in handcuffs.

  • 5 days ago | pennlive.com | Steve Strunsky

    Ice agents surround U.S. Rep LaMonica McIver (red jacket), U.S. Rep Bonnie Coleman (tan jacket), and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka outside Delaney Hall in Newark on Friday, May 9, 2025.Michael Dempsey | For NJ AdvanceICE officers arrested the mayor of Newark Friday afternoon in a violent struggle just outside the gates of a privately operated immigrant detention facility that he had opposed.

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SteveStrunsky
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25 Mar 25

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9 Feb 25

"No tenemos miedo." Several hundred immigrants and their allies marched in Passaic, a majority-LatinX city in northern New Jersey, to show solidarity in the face of a crackdown by ICE. Attention Generation X: one held a sign reading "Deport Elon."