A Belleville woman was sentenced to four years in state prison for driving impaired, leading to a crash that caused the death of an unborn child weeks before her birth, and took away the ability of the victim to ever carry another child, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow announced.
Nicole Leming, 27, was sentenced by Superior Court Judge [...]
BELLEVILLE (Updated Wednesday at 3 p.m. with new information in red) — Two men with guns broke into a home at 40 Branch Brook Drive, tied up two residents, pistol whipped a man inside the apartment and fled with close to $5,000 in cash and merchandise in a brazen daytime home invasion Tuesday afternoon, said [...]
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For those of you who are parishioners of St. Stephen’s Church, this news won’t come as much of a surprise.
The Rev. Joe Mancini, parochial vicar at the church, and the Archdiocese of Newark’s executive director of Youth Ministry, will [...]
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A 52-year-old auto mechanic from Belleville was bludgeoned to death early Thursday morning at the Belleville car garage where he was a lead mechanic, said Paul Loriquet, press secretary for Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow.
Arnolfo T. Daroy was found dead Thursday at around 9 a.m., with multiple wounds to the head, by the owner of [...]
The Star-Ledger is reporting that a 52-year-old Nutley man was found murdered early this morning in a Belleville car-repair garage on Franklin Avenue. We’ll be contacting the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and will share details of the incident as soon as they’re available. Be sure to check back Friday for details.
Belleville Firefighter Scott Wentworth sent us these incredible photos this morning of the fire scene at 7 Rutgers Court. To see them enlarged, simply click on the images.
Fire picture courtesy of Damien Danis, NJMFPA
Fire aftermath picture courtesy of James Wood Sr., NJMFPA
We found an embeddable video taken last week (on YouTube) at the major fire in Belleville on Rutgers Court. Here’s a look at that video, and video taken this morning of the after-effects of the fire.
Belleville 3-alarm fire aftermath
BELLEVILLE — A 3-alarm fire caused substantial damage to an apartment complex at 7 Rutgers Court last night into this morning, leaving many people homeless and without most of their possessions. We’ll be gathering details of the fire, and will have a full report in the May 9 edition of The Observer.
The area was hardly spared by the Nor’easter of Sunday and Monday. Here is a video of major flooding taken in Kearny (off Sellers Street) and and a few photos taken in Kearny and Belleville this afternoon.
Horrendous flood conditions in Kearny
These first four photos were taken in the industrial area located off Schuyler Avenue (near [...]
