Update: Teen Girl, Woman Killed In Newark Car Crash, Authorities Say
Two women were killed and three people remained hospitalized after a one-car crash in Newark, authorities said.
Tahtiyana Green, 17, and Imani Exum, 21, both died when the black Infinity G35 they were riding in slammed into a "No Parking for Street Cleaning" sign and then a tree around 3:30 a.m. Saturday near 15th Avenue and Hunterdon Street, city law enforcement officials said Sunday.
The car's male driver and two other passengers, one male the other female, remain hospitalized. The two men were in serious condition, authorities said.
Video footage from ABC7 shows firefighters cutti…
Authorities: Plainfield Mom Left Teen Alone With Drugs; $20K, Cocaine Seized
A Plainfield mom left her daughter home alone with drugs, said authorities who arrested her along with another man and seized $20,000 in cash and cocaine.
Jerry Ross, 42, of Dunellen, and Nicole Moody, 35, of Plainfield, were both charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and two other drug-related offenses, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said.
Moody is also charged with endangering the welfare of a child for leaving her teenage daughter alone in a home with the drugs, authorities said.
After identifying Moody and Ross as local drug dealers, law enforcement age…
Livingston Man Dead After Car Crosses Over Median, Crashes On PA Highway, State Police Say
A Livingston man was killed in a Pennsylvania crash on I-78, authorities said.
Leopold Bautista, 79, was traveling westbound in an Infiniti sedan when it crossed over the grassy center median and hit an eastbound Chrysler sedan in Lower Saucon Township around 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Trooper Nathan Branosky said.
Bautista was taken to St. Luke's Hospital (Bethlehem Campus), where he was pronounced dead nearly an hour later, the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office said.
Bautista's death was ruled an accident, the cause being multiple blunt force injuries, the coroner's office sai…