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The Star-LedgerA red-light camera in Newark.NEWARK -- New Jersey's largest city will be seeing green when motorists run red lights. On Wednesday t...

NEWARK -- Paul Fishman was formally sworn in as U.S. Attorney this afternoon in a ceremony at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. Fishman, who served...

Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-LedgerPaul FishmanNEWARK -- Paul Fishman, a prominent defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, will be officially ind...

Joe Shine/For The Jersey JournalThe baby stabbed this morning at 100 Montgomery St. in Jersey City is taken to a helicopter to be transported to ...

NEWARK -- A Costa Rican woman awaiting extradition from New Jersey on a 12-year-old murder charge is suing her jailers, claiming a lack of health ...

The Star-LedgerDennis Elwell, 64, of Seacaucus leaves the Federal Courthouse in Newark.One of the politicians arrested in New Jersey's largest cor...

NEWARK -- In a seventh-floor classroom strewn with sketches and cardboard models, 13 students at the New Jersey Institute of Technology are trying...

NEWARK -- The former finance director of a photography company pleaded guilty today in federal court to helping embezzle more than $100,000 from t...

ESSEX COUNTY -- Need some extra cash for Christmas? Trade in a handgun, or maybe even a rifle. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office has found more...

Essex County authorities will announce the second gun amnesty buyback program in three weeks, this one for East Orange, Irvington and Newark. Resi...

John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerAttorney Paul Bergrin appears in court on behalf of a client in May before he was charged with murder and witness inti...

NEWARK -- New Jersey's next governor and the man he'll succeed in January will meet today for the first time since the election. Gov.-elect Chris ...

Real estate developer Solomon Dwek, right, 33, and his lawyer, Michael B. Himmel, are shown outside the Federal Courthouse in Newark, N.J., after ...

NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey attorney general's office will take over the manslaughter prosecution of former NBA star Jayson Williams.

An office spokesman said Wednesday that it would replace the Hunterdon County prosecutor's office for Williams' retrial on a reckless manslaughter count stemming from the shooting of a hired driver in 2002.

Current and former employees of the county office testified last week in a hearing to determine whether the case has been tainted by racial bias. It was disclosed two years ago that a county investigator used a racial slur to describe Williams, who is black.

Williams was convicted of covering up the shooting, but the jury deadlocked on a reckless manslaughter count.

NEWARK, N.J. — A woman accused of forcing girls from Africa to work in New Jersey hair braiding salons for no pay has been convicted of human trafficking and visa fraud in a case her lawyer says highlighted African cultural norms that failed to translate in America.

Prosecutors argued that Akouavi Kpade Afolabi, called "Sister" by the women she oversaw, helped bring at least 20 girls between the ages of 10 and 19 from the West African nations of Togo and Ghana on fraudulent visas to New Jersey starting in 2002.

They said she manipulated the impoverished young women, who aspired to live better lives in America, and kept them in slavery-like conditions while stealing all their pay – even tips as meager as fifty cents.

Afolabi's lawyer, Bukie Adetula, countered that his client was considered a benevolent mother figure and revered community leader – both in her native Togo and New Jersey. He said she was known for lending people money and aiding young women to escape their poverty-stricken homeland to learn a marketable skill in America.

"I don't think the jury quite got it, the whole essence of the defense that this was cultural; the argument that they (Afolabi) brought Togo to America," Adetula said.

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The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., on credit card fees:

When it comes to credit card swipe fees, Americans are getting Third World treatment.

U.S. consumers and businesses pay markedly higher charges than those in other developed nations when it comes to purchasing with plastic, according to a report by the Merchants Payment Coalition. ...

NEWARK -- Rasheen Kornegay had been a teacher at Lady Liberty Academy Charter School for about six years, except that he hadn't, according to the ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Prudential Financial Inc. said Tuesday its board has approved giving shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation, a so-called Say on Pay, that many companies have adopted in the face of criticism of soaring executive pay.

Shareholders of Newark, N.J.-based Prudential will get to vote every other year on the compensation policies set by the board committee that decides how to pay executives.

Prudential follows other companies that have approved similar Say on Pay voting power for shareholders. The Obama administration has proposed requiring it at all public companies.

Prudential sells life insurance and manages assets for investors, as well as other services.

Its shares rose 30 cents to $50.11 in aftermarket trading after closing Tuesday at $49.81, up 2 percent from the previous day's close.

NEWARK-- A veteran Port Authority police officer has been arrested and charged in a fraud scheme involving a cooperating witness for the governmen...

Quawi Brown NEWARK -- Essex County sheriff's officers arrested a reputed Bloods gang member who was wanted for a recent armed carjacking, autho...

NEWARK -- The former treasurer of a New Jersey transit and railroad workers' union was sentenced to one year in federal prison today after plea...