New Jersey

There were many charged emotions Thursday night, just only hours after chaos erupted both inside and outside the for-profit ICE facility. Homeland Security and the FBI are offering a $10,000 reward to find four detainees who investigators said were arrested on criminal charges but managed to escape the Newark center after apparently busting through a wall. NBC New York’s Adam...

A woman and police discovered hidden cameras in bathrooms on the Ocean City Boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey.

The search for four detainees who went missing from an immigration detention center in New Jersey a day ago continues Friday, with federal authorities confirming the group escaped the facility. The detainees were being held at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been holding individuals who are facing possible deportation. It wasn’t...

The four people were unaccounted for Thursday night, and federal authorities were looking into whether they were still on the grounds of the facility, or had somehow escaped, senior officials said. Chris Jose with the latest for News 4. 

Local and state authorities were notified of the missing detainees, and some additional resources were called in to assist with the situation, according to the senior officials.

Toilet paper, hallways blocked with tables and desks, chairs bunched together with plastic wrap. All the remnants of a joke gone wrong — or taken too far.

A New Jersey high school was closed on Thursday after the entire building was vandalized. Did the senior prank by South River High School’s Class of 2025 go too far? NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports.

Hope this news gets you as excited as Stanley on pretzel day. This summer, fans of “The Office” will get the chance to meet the dry-wit employees of Dunder Mifflin for a reunion of sorts. And you won’t even have to go all the way to Scranton, Pennsylvania, to see the shenanigans that the cast will get up to....

Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s Democratic primary win Tuesday concluded one of the more crowded competitive primary fields in recent memory.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill spoke to her supporters after NBC News projected she would win the Democratic primary for governor in New Jersey.

Democrat Mikie Sherrill and Republican Jack Ciattarelli won their respective party’s primary on Tuesday, NBC News projected, and will face off in November’s general election for governor. New Jersey is just one of two states with a governor’s race this year, the other being Virginia. The races in both states will likely serve as bellwethers for how voters are...

Rep. Mikie Sherrill is the projected winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary in New Jersey, according to the NBC News Decision Desk. Sherrill, who held off challenges in a hotly-contested race from a crowded field, will face projected Republican nominee Jack Ciattarelli in the Nov. 4 general election. She becomes the Democrats’ standard-bearer at a time when the state party…

Former state assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli is projected to win the New Jersey Republican primary for governor, according to the NBC News Decision Desk. Ciattarelli gained the endorsement of President Donald Trump in May in New Jersey’s GOP primary, saying he’s gone “ALL IN” on the “Make America Great Again” agenda. He will now face off against the Democratic nominee...

U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted on federal charges alleging she impeded and interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center.

Polls in the New Jersey primary for governor have officially closed Tuesday night, as of 8 p.m. The candidates on the Democratic and Republican side of the aisle are all hoping to make the November general election ballot for a chance to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, who is term-limited out. Here are the latest New Jersey election results…

The man accused of killing a New Jersey councilwoman right outside her home as her family was waiting inside was found guilty of murder and other charges, according to the county prosecutor’s office.

A Fender Telecaster guitar that belonged to the band Heart has been recovered after it was stolen from the Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in late May.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill enters the Democratic contest for governor with several key advantages, but uncertainty looms.

New Jersey voters on Tuesday will settle the Democratic and Republican primaries for governor in a contest that could send signals about how the public is responding to President Donald Trump’s agenda and how Democratic voters think their leaders should push back. New Jersey is one of just two states with a race for governor this year — the other…

Jen Maxfield reports on the opening of polls as New Jersey prepares for the results of its gubernatorial primary election.