KPD: Fidgeting is dead giveaway

Last Thursday, July 28, Officers Chris Manolis and Jon Dowie were on patrol at Bergen and…

Dumb & dumberer

KEARNY – This is the sort of story that cries out for mugshots, but, alas, we cannot…

Arrest in Belleville vehicular homicide

BELLEVILLE — Two months after the tragedy, a 19-year-old Bloomfield man has been arrested on a charge…

Woman, 67, victim of strong-arm robbery: NPD

A 67-year-old woman was the reported victim of a strong-arm robbery on St. Mary’s Place late…

‘O brave new world . . . .’  

By Karen Zautyk More evidence (as if we needed any) that the world is going mad:…

GUEST COLUMN — Cop’s fear: ‘Vilification for something I do’

By Capt. Timothy Wagner Kearny Police Department Special to The Observer I recently gave the following…

Obituaries for Aug. 3, 2016

Mary Rosamilia Mary Rosamilia (nee Casciano), of Harrison, died on Monday, July 26, at Alaris at…

In Kearny, soccer never loses popularity, evidenced by camp

Make no bones about it. Alexa Teixeira and Julia Viscuso are the best of friends. Both…

QP survives, gets new AD, new grid coach

The Queen of Peace alumni wanted to be heard by the Archdiocese of Newark and let…

Kearny United U15s reach national championship game

Jimmy Harkes has been the coordinator and coach for the Kearny United youth soccer program for…

I-280 eastbound bridge over Martin Luther King Boulevard traffic shift necessary this weekend for bridge replacement in Newark

New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials today announced a traffic shift of I-280 eastbound, and…

Light rail train, SUV collide in Belleville

An NJ Transit Light Rail train collided with an SUV in Belleville this morning, causing one…

The night the world exploded

JERSEY CITY — In Liberty State Park, with its views across New York Harbor to where the…

Final chapter of KHS renovations?

  KEARNY – It’s all systems go for what the Kearny Board of Education hopes will…

Town scores Red Bull revenues

HARRISON — Municipal officials in Harrison will never know which way the state’s highest court was…