Essex

🔴 Two men in Newark are charged with murder
🔴 Their arrests come more than two and a half years after the shooting
🔴 The victim was found in an apartment building hallway

NEWARK — More than two and a half years after a man was shot to death, aut…

🔴 One dump truck flipped over on the Route 295 southbound overpass over Route 1
🔴 The second truck overturned a few yards behind
🔴 Route 295 southbound is closed at Exit 67 (Route 1)

LAWRENCE (Mercer) — Route 295 southbound is closed at the exit for …

I’m guessing that everyone who drives has had the experience of being on a road that you drive regularly, only to discover one or two black tubes (that weren’t there before) stretching across the street.
The tubes are obviously too small to act like a …

🚙 A vehicle plowed into an iconic cafe on Tuesday in downtown Union
☕ The coffee house first opened for business in the mid 90s
💳 Customers can support the cafe with purchases while repairs are made

UNION TOWNSHIP (Union) — An iconic coffee shop was …

Two out of the three men wanted on suspicion of the murder of an Essex man have been arrested. Robert Powell, 50, was shot outside an address in Roydon, Essex, in the early hours of Saturday, June 13, 2020. He died from his injuries the following day.
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The board responsible for A&E services across east Essex has admitted performance is “quite a way” from where they need to be after figures showed more than a third of patients had to wait more than four hours for treatment. Figures also show that …

Work has begun to unearth a historic Roman mosaic buried under the pavement outside a vape shop in Colchester. The ornate design was first discovered in the 1980s but it was covered back over and remained hidden.
It was originally found whilst services…

New data released today from the match-funding technology platform Givematch has revealed that almost half (48%) of British Muslims will exercise less during the month of Ramadan – and 14% will stop exercising altogether.
However, 11% of those observin…

An 11-year-old schoolboy who tragically died in a house fire in Essex has been named locally as Daniel Ajayi. Daniel was described by his school as a “kind, gentle student” after he sadly died in a fire on March 7.
Fire crews from London Fire Brigade (…

Motorists are facing disruption on the roads this morning (March 22) with an overturned lorry causing chaos on the M11 in Essex. An incident involving a lorry between junctions 8 A120 (Bishop Stortford) and J9 (Saffron Walden) has resulted in all traff…