N.J.-- Authorities have charged a man with the murder of a 9-year-old boy in Newark. Mayor Ras Baraka and the Essex County Prosecutor's Office discussed the case during a news conference on ...

The grassroots Piscataway Progressive Democratic Organization has endorsed Ras Baraka for governor after he received over 80% ...

Former Hunterdon County Chair Joey Novick endorsed Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for governor Tuesday, just days before Hunterdon’s Democratic convention.

Starting as a patrolman in the 5th Precinct, Manny Miranda worked his way up through the Newark police force over his 23-year career to be named Newark’s Director of Public Safety by Mayor Ras J.

On Sunday, The Eagleton Institute of Politics' Center for Youth Political Participation held a live watch party for the first New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial primary debate. The debate candidates ...

Destiny Pagan/The Rider News On Feb. 2, on stage behind their podiums, each with a Rider University mug, stood the evening’s Democratic contenders: former Senate President Steve Sweeney, Newark Mayor ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP ... people in the country illegally who have not been convicted of a crime. Mayor Ras Baraka said ICE agents showed up at a business Thursday for what he called a warrantless ...

Springfield, Ohio, Mayor Rob Rue speaks to residents during a town hall about the 2024 presidential election's focus on the town's influx of Haitian immigrants on September 24, 2024. Dominic Gwinn ...

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