A New Jersey man was indicted Thursday for allegedly sexually abusing a woman who was asleep on an airplane, the U.S. District Attorney's Office said.
A Berlin-bound United Airlines flight returned Saturday night to Newark Liberty International Airport after a problem developed in the left engine, officials said.
A suspicious item prompted the crew of a United Airlines flight to Switzerland to divert it to Boston, as two F-15 fighters shadowed the plane Tuesday night.
Federal investigators are looking into whether stowaways are tucked inside a shipping container aboard a vessel docked at a Newark, New Jersey, seaport.
Cory Booker, the Newark, New Jersey, mayor who in April carried a woman out of a burning building, may have been involved in another incident, this time involving a pedestrian who was apparently struck by a vehicle.
After following a cyber trail stemming from an ongoing investigation into possession of child pornography, federal officials in New Jersey said Thursday they now have custody of a Ukrainian man they believe is behind one of the largest international child porn distribution rings.
NEWARK, N.J. -- In all sports, the 0-3 series hole might as well be the equivalent of an open grave. The number of times that teams have overcome such a deep deficit can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And yet, the Devils haven't made their beds in the soil quite yet.
New York City police didn't violate New Jersey state laws when they carried out surveillance programs of Muslim-owned business, mosques and university student groups, according to a Thursday statement from the New Jersey attorney general's office.
NEWARK, N.J. -- Ilya Kovalchuk did not accompany the New Jersey Devils to Philadelphia earlier this week, but that doesn't mean he didn't make a side trip to Lourdes when everybody was looking elsewhere. The restorative waters on the other side of the great un-Zamboni-ed pond are said to promote healing better than those of Upper New York Bay, which probably has more to do with public relations than with the purity of the wet stuff in north Jersey.
Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker rescues his next door neighbor from her burning home. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, saved a woman from a burning house late Thursday night.
To the family of Zina Hodge, the man who dashed into their burning home and pulled their loved one to safety through intense heat, falling embers and dense smoke could just be Superman.
While New York police officials defended their actions, Muslim advocacy groups Friday expressed disappointment that the state's attorney general declined to investigate the department over alleged surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods.
The mayor of Newark has called for an investigation into a far-reaching New York Police Department surveillance program that was allegedly conducted in the New Jersey city's Muslim neighborhoods.
Many were in diapers, if they were born at all, during Whitney Houston's heyday in the late 1980s and early 1990s. And yet they still feel a special connection to her -- and, today, share in the heartache of their parents and neighbors by virtue of the fact that they all call northern New Jersey home.
Interest in Whitney's music is peaking, but will her daughter benefit? HLN follows the money trail with a music insider.
Family and close friends will say goodbye to Whitney Houston with a private funeral and burial Saturday in her native New Jersey, trying to come to grips with grief that the pastor of her childhood church called "very deep."
High winds and snow prompted airport and highway delays in some metropolitan areas Friday, potentially snarling holiday travel plans on one of the nation's busiest travel days.
JetBlue has begun refunding the passengers of five flights who were stranded on the tarmac of a Connecticut airport for as long as eight hours on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN on Thursday.
A Boeing 767 on a flight from Newark, New Jersey, made a dramatic emergency landing at Warsaw, Poland's Frederic Chopin International airport Tuesday after problems with its landing gear, an airport spokeswoman said.
A survivor from the Polish plane that was forced to land without landing gear says the pilot did a great job.
A Jet Blue pilot pleads with the control tower to get towed off the tarmac after being stranded for several hours.
A JetBlue pilot isn't happy with his employer after being stuck on the tarmac of a Connecticut airport for some eight hours on Saturday. Neither are many of his passengers.
Meteorologist Chad Myers reports from Pennsylvania as an early snowstorm strikes.
Airline passengers left stranded by a freak snowstorm that pounded the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were waiting to get to their destinations Sunday, many after spending a restless night on cots or airport floors.
Here are some of the latest travel-related developments stemming from Hurricane Irene:
CNN's Nick Parker tours the New York subway as it closes down ahead of Hurricane Irene.
HLN meteorologist Bob Van Dillen explains the science behind a deadly heat wave spreading across the eastern U.S.
With this summer's heat already blamed for at least 22 deaths, the recent heat wave continues to claim victims as it settles over portions of the East Coast this weekend.
Half-naked anchors cover "heat dome" while reporters cook steak and eggs in it. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.
The blistering heat wave that has brought stifling conditions to much of the United States broke 55 record highs on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said Thursday. That's more than 1% of all temperature records in the country.
Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport singled out Mexican and Dominican passengers for nearly two years, according to a federal report obtained by The Star-Ledger newspaper.
Not everybody groans when another top NBA draft prospect decides to return to school.
You've probably seen the smoke-filled, glass-encased fishbowls that play host to smokers if you've passed through some of the nation's largest airports in recent years.
"Kids should be going to college if at least part of what they want to do is get an education. The way it's set up on these one-and-dones. ... To me, it's a sham." -- Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy
The blizzard that wreaked havoc on the East Coast this week may cost airlines up to $150 million as planes sit idle following the cancellation of thousands of flights.
Mayor Cory Booker helps citizens dig out of the snow in Newark, New Jersey.
Cory Booker has added social media to his arsenal of snowplows as the active Newark, New Jersey, mayor helps get his city dug out from several feet of snow from this week's storm.
Close to 10,000 total flights have been canceled since the beginning of a holiday blizzard that blanketed much of the U.S. northeast with snow and left thousands stranded.
Mother Nature strikes down hard in the Northeast bringing travel to a standstill. CNN's Mary Snow reports
Delta Air Lines has pre-emptively canceled approximately 500 Christmas Day flights, a company spokesman said Friday, as it and other U.S. airlines work to get ahead of a storm that's threatening the East Coast.
Authorities gave an all clear at Newark, New Jersey's Liberty International Airport on Monday morning after briefly shutting down Terminal A due to a "suspicious package," according to the FBI.
Warren Buffett says he will donate 99% of his wealth.
The world is urbanizing fast -- more than half the globe's people now live in cities. That fact makes the management of urban areas a critical challenge and mayors more important than ever. Few mayors are attracting as much attention as Newark's Cory Booker, leading a city with a 40-year reputation for blight, crime, and poverty. Already well known, Booker became far more famous in late September when he and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Oprah Winfrey's TV show to announce Zuckerberg's $100 million pledge to Newark schools. Booker, 41, was reelected in May by a comfortable margin, having replaced a notoriously corrupt administration in 2006. He went to Stanford on a football scholarship, then studied history at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and got a law degree at Yale. As mayor, he has reduced violent crime, his top priority; March was the city's first murder-free month in 44 years. Booker today has over a million followers on Twitter -- fewer than Lady Gaga but more
Three men pleaded not guilty Wednesday in separate killings in Maplewood, New Jersey, that prosecutors are investigating as bias crimes, according to the Essex County Prosecutors' office.
A suspect in the death of a transgender woman in New Jersey has turned himself in, authorities said, and a second suspect remains at large.
One man has been arrested and two others have been identified as suspects in two separate killings in Maplewood, New Jersey, that may be bias crimes, police said Thursday.
While we are only just approaching October, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas for the charter school movement. Since the documentary Waiting for Superman opened in select theaters last week, a cast of notables have announced a cascade of donations and investment pledges for charters, and it looks it's just the beginning of this holiday season.
Oprah had a question: "In this age of red states and blue states, with everyone being so partisan against everything, that fact that you could all come together -- you're a Republican and he's a Democrat -- did that ever come into it?"
The 28-year-old lets cameras film his modest home - and opens up about life with his girlfriend
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday he is donating $100 million toward improving public schools in Newark, New Jersey.
Mark Zuckerberg is donating $100 million to the Newark public school system. The donation will be the first part of a foundation intended to improve U.S. education.
One of America's richest and youngest is giving back.
The second suspect in brutal Newark, New Jersey, schoolyard slayings pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and weapons charges in Newark Superior Court on Tuesday as part of a plea deal, according to Essex County Prosecutors.
NEWARK, N.J. -- The gulf in the heavyweight division between the Klitschko brothers and everyone else seems as wide as ever.
In a desperate attempt to fill a $70 million budget hole, Newark's mayor is taking a chainsaw to the town's budget -- even going so far as to cut toilet paper from the 2010 budget.
A man convicted in the execution-style killings of three students in New Jersey nearly three years ago was sentenced Thursday to three consecutive life sentences, the Essex County prosecutor's office said.
The price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline is up nearly a nickel in the past two weeks, but gas prices aren't expected to continue a dramatic rise, according to a survey published Sunday.
Passengers aboard a Virgin Atlantic plane that was diverted to Connecticut complained Wednesday they were held on the hot plane for hours with no food or water until 1 a.m.
Two New Jersey men arrested Saturday for allegedly planning to "wage violent jihad" made their first court appearance Monday.
If he hadn't been an obedient son, and if his father hadn't been looking out for him, police say, another teen probably would have disappeared with his friends in Newark the night of August 20, 1978.
CNN's Randi Kaye looks back on the shocking murder of five teenagers and how it was solved three decades later.
Two men charged in the 1978 disappearance of five teenagers in Newark, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty to five counts of murder Wednesday morning as about 40 family members of the victims looked on.
Newark, New Jersey, officials announce arrests made in connection to the disappearance of five boys in 1978.
Authorities have arrested two suspects in connection with the alleged murders of five teenagers who were reported missing in Newark, New Jersey, more than 30 years ago.
Federal prosecutors say four men hacked the computer systems of online ticket vendors and bought up 1.5 million tickets to prime concerts, sporting events and live performances in an elaborate scheme that netted them more than $25 million.
Rutgers University has suspended a sorority after police charged six of its members in a hazing investigation.
A man who faces a trespassing charge for allegedly triggering a security breach at the Newark, New Jersey, airport was released from custody early Saturday, Port Authority police said.
Airport videos shows a TSA officer leaving his post in a secured gate area and a man walk into the area.
A security breach at the Newark, New Jersey, airport over the weekend was caused by an officer of the Transportation Security Administration who left his post unattended, an agency spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Transportation Security Administration took full responsibility Wednesday for a security breach this week at the airport in Newark, New Jersey, a spokeswoman said.
Hours after a security breach forced the closure of a terminal at the Newark, New Jersey, airport Sunday, authorities were still searching for a man who went the wrong way through a checkpoint exit.
After a tiff that has lasted two weeks, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, said Wednesday that he is in discussions with "Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien to "bury the hatchet and the feud."
CNN's Larry King talks with Newark, New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker about his city's feud with late night comedian Conan O'Brien.
The Newark mayor fires back at Conan O'Brien after the late-night host makes fun of the city. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports
As with many jokes, it started with a small jab at the expense of New Jersey.
The pilot of Continental Flight 61 died Thursday as the plane flew from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, New Jersey, the Federal Aviation Administration and Continental Airlines said.
A former federal prosecutor was arrested Wednesday on charges related to the murder of a witness in a drug case, among many other counts, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Newark, New Jersey, said.
Some communities are printing their own currency and it's perfectly legal. CNN's Brooke Baldwin reports.
Steve Carlotta's family-owned camera store is struggling along with other mom and pop stores. But he's found a way to compete with Internet stores and big-box chains.
The NTSB says it appears the autopilot was on at the time of the crash - a violation of policy. CNN's Ines Ferre reports.
A commuter airliner that crashed Thursday in upstate New York, killing 50 people, underwent violent pitching and rolling seconds before impact, with passengers experiencing twice the normal force of gravity, a federal investigator said Sunday.
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