Video trips up alleged burglar

By Karen Zautyk  Observer Correspondent  KEARNY – Security video from a Forest St. apartment building led to the…

Notes from KPD Blotter

In a professional building on Midland Ave., near the Post Office, there used to be a business called the…

Ex-employee stole nearly 9G, cops say

A woman who had worked for a Nutley physician has been accused of stealing several thousands of dollars from…

House fire quelled

LYNDHURST –  Residents of a one-family house on Fourth St. in Lyndhurst were safely evacuated during a fire that broke…

Report: 2 women arrested, charged with soliciting prostitution at Kearny clinic

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY — In a professional building on Midland Ave., near the…

Brand-new cars go up in flames

By Karen Zautyk  Observer Correspondent  KEARNY –  Last Thursday, for the second time in five days, township firefighters…

Bust alleged repeat drug offender

By Karen Zautyk  Observer Correspondent  KEARNY – A Kearny man, arrested in January on drug charges, was busted again…

Fire fatality under review

BELLEVILLE –  The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the death of a Belleville resident found dead in his…

Death was ‘self-inflicted,’ police say

BELLEVILLE –  The lifeless body of a Belleville man was found outside his house on Hill St. in the…

Cops break up narcotics operation

BLOOMFIELD – Armed with a battering ram, Essex County sheriff’s officers and Bloomfield police last week forced their way through…

Unneeded meds welcome 24/7 at HQ

Got any unneeded or out-of-date medications at home that you’ve been meaning to dispose of? Now you can do exactly that…

KPD: Axe & you shall be seized

At 4 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, KPD Officer Patrick Becker, responding to a report of a suspicious person lurking near…

ATM at bank compromised, police say

Something suspicious was going on at a local financial institution that prompted Nutley PD to visit on Feb. 2.…

Smoky blaze shuts Skyway

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent  KEARNY –  On Saturday afternoon, with temperatures well below freezing and the wind-chill well below…

ATMs in stores targeted

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY –  If you’re a store owner who has an ATM near…