Thousands of Iraqi refugees have arrived in the United States as part of a nationwide resettlement program to bring 12,000 Iraqis to the United States by the end of next month, officials said.

Police have arrested a Newark area landlord who allegedly rammed his Hummer into a renter’s house, claiming the tenants were behind on their rent.

Advance Publications Inc. will sell The Star-Ledger of Newark unless 26 percent of staff accept buyouts by October, the company told employees in a letter Thursday.

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James has been sentenced to 2 years and 3 months in federal prison for his corruption conviction regarding sales of city land to a former mistress.

Here in the gentle hills of north Texas, televangelist Kenneth Copeland has built a religious empire teaching that God wants his followers to prosper.

Prosecutors say a Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was stolen nearly 34 years ago in Rhode Island has surfaced in central New Jersey. The 1971 Sportster was purchased on eBay for $2,400 by Michael Meistrell of Cranford.The Union County prosecutor’s...

A federal judge on Wednesday upheld the corruption convictions of former Newark Mayor Sharpe James and his one-time mistress, but indicated that James probably will get less than the 15- to 20-year prison sentence prosecutors are seeking.U.S. District...

Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s re-election campaign has dropped its request to get the operator of Giants Stadium to provide it with Bruce Springsteen tickets for a fundraiser event this weekend.The turnaround comes after a newspaper reported that the...

A New Jersey woman is suing the call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer because she says Ashley Dupre used her lost driver’s license to appear on a “Girls Gone Wild” video.The federal lawsuit filed this month by Amber Arpaio...