Loiterers and criminals on the nighttime streets of New Jersey's largest city have some company — concerned citizens and government workers who are cruising neighborhoods in an effort to reduce crime. Under Newark's "Crime Caravan" program, volunteer convoys have been rolling through the city ...

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 Judge William J. Martini rejected ...

The former mayor of Newark, N.J., is due at a federal prison camp Monday. Sharpe James was to report to Petersburg, Va., to begin serving a 27-month sentence. He was convicted earlier this year on corruption charges. James had requested being sent to the prison at ...

The former mayor of Newark broke a yearlong public silence hours before being sentenced for corruption with an attitude rarely, if ever, seen during his 20 years as the leader of the state's largest city: contrition. "I would like to apologize to my wife of ...