Why were those sirens wailing? Patch recaps some of Essex County’s recent public safety, police, fire and EMS stories.

Five North Bergen police officers claim Chief Robert Farley harassed them by defecating on floors, exposing himself, ...

An attorney for five police officers who have filed notices of intent to sue the North Bergen Police Department over the ...

Ultimately, whether the Essex County, New Jersey, defamation suit launched by Ghana rsquo;s putatively foremost and most ...

A New Jersey man was wanted in connection with a stabbing and threatening to kill someone, police said. Authorities arrested ...

Thousands are calling on NJ lawmakers to revise the state's law on charging juveniles as adults in the wake of Newark ...

Two men are facing charges in connection to a killing that took place last summer in Elizabeth. The Union County Prosecutor’s Office says 27-year-old Steven Charles-Piere, of Linden and 20-year-old ...

The New Jersey teen who allegedly gunned down a Newark detective and wounded another in a hail of 29 bullets caught their ...

A source told the New York Post that the 14-year-old who shot a Newark police officer comes from a a really, really bad ...

Two New Jersey men have been arrested in connection with the violent, broad-daylight robbery of a jewelry store in New York ...