While nearly a dozen Kearny soon-to-be high school seniors headed to the Lyndsey Meyer Teen Institute…
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It appears work can soon begin at Oval
— The road to the starting line to get the state to sanction a makeover of…
Teens head to camp this week and will bring positive message back to peers
By Kevin Canessa This week, a group of Kearny teenagers head out to a camp in…
KPD: Four TVs weren’t enough?
KEARNY— On Aug. 4 at 3:40 a.m., Officers Christian Medina, Anthony Nunez, Andre Fernandes and Sean Podolski…
4 MORE YEARS!
KEARNY — And on it goes … Drivers passing by the ever-expanding construction site for the…
Kearny Square Mall sold for $45M+
KEARNY— Most people go to a mall to shop. And shop like mad, one particular buyer…
Taxes drop in Kearny for first time in 17 years
KEARNY — Property owners in Kearny got some startling news with their third quarter tax bills…
After only 2 years being open, BJ’s shopping center is sold
Editor's note: Because of a production error, this story did not appear in its entirety in…
Will former Kearny schools bookkeeper do time behind bars?
In a plea agreement concluded July 10 with the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Gina Neri, 50,…
Leave fireworks to the professionals, KPD Chief says
Six months before he left office, former Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a bill that…
KPD: How shellfish can you get?
Editor's note: Because of space considerations, all police blotters are appearing online only this week.
Kearny hopes SCOTUS will hear Keegan case, has filed for rare Writ of Certiorari
KEARNY — It may only be a dumping ground for construction debris and certain types of…
Hudson County Corrections Officer, resident of Kearny, arrested after allegedly smuggling contraband into jail
A Hudson County Corrections Officer, who is also a resident of Kearny, has been arrested and…
KPD Chief King: No charges for JC Mayor Fulop
Charges will not be filed against Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop following an incident where the…
Apologize to the Kearny cop you shoved, Santos says to JC Mayor Fulop
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop owes the rookie Kearny police officer he shoved last night an…
Kearny professor pleads guilty to fraud
NEW YORK CITY — Mamdouh Abdel-Sayed, a tenured lecturer at the City University of New York’s…
Friends, family raising funds for the late Vitorino Cirne
By Kevin Canessa More than two weeks after the death of Vitorino Cirne, 51, the Lyndhurst…
KHS art show dazzles
KEARNY — A wing of the South Building at Kearny High School filled with objets d’art on…
Former Kearny BOE payroll clerk faces new charges, HCPO says
Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez has released the following information: On Monday, May 21, 2018, Gina…
10 new cops on Kearny streets
By Ron Leir rleir@theobserver.com KEARNY — For Matthew Knighton, the choice of law enforcement as a…
Body pulled from Passaic River is missing postal worker Cirne
KEARNY — The body of a 51-year-old Lyndhurst man, a letter carrier with the Kearny Post…
Street Feast moved from Marina indoors on John Miller Way
Because of predicted inclement weather, the Kearny Street Feast scheduled for this Saturday, May 19 (known…
KFD purchases thermal-imaging cameras with FEMA grant
By Kevin Canessa Here’s a scenario we’ve all probably faced at one point or another. You…
Remembering the Rev. Msgr. John J. Gilchrist
By Kevin Canessa The Rev. Msgr. John J. Gilchrist, who spent much of his priestly life…
KPD searching for missing man, Rogelio ‘Rollie’ Mendez, 40
The Kearny Police Department seeks the public’s help in locating Rogelio “Rollie” Mendez, a 40-year-old man…
CLIMBING THE LADDER
KEARNY Four Kearny Fire Department promotions took effect on April Fool’s Day but you’d be a…
DEVELOPING NEWS: Lyndhurst cops searching for missing 51-year-old man
The Lyndhurst Police Department is actively conducting a missing-person investigation. Vitorino Cirne, seen in the photo…
DeGise announces termination of medical-services provider contract in response to yet another inmate suicide at Hudson jail
Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise made the following statement after more than three hours of meetings…