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Reports on New Jersey (N.J.) Governor-elect James E. McGreevey's support to an effort by New Jersey Legislature to reach a deal for a sports arena in Newark even before his inauguration on January 15, 2002.

Reports on the reason for the dismissal of Marvin Corwick as director of the division of local government services in New Jersey.

Reports on the confidential records left among the debris in the abandoned Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey. Its use as the county's Bureau of Narcotics Control from 1970 through 1989; Thousands of law enforcement records left behind by the narcotics bureau; State law about the records; The subjects of the records.

Focuses on the City Cemetery in Newark, New Jersey. When the old potter's field was last used; The search of Elsie Lascurain for her father's grave resulting in Newark's pledge to restore the cemetery; Cost to Newark; When the cemetery was established for Newark's indigent.

Focuses on the case of John Armstrong, who was charged with murder in 1999 in the stabbing death of a homeless man, Attilio Cicala, in 1984. Reason behind the crime; Information on Armstrong, a follower of Yahweh ben Yahweh, the founder of a Black Israelite group; Details on Yahweh ben Yahweh.

Focuses on the replacement of Reverend John S. Spong by Reverend John P. Croneberger as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey, in 2000. Religious views of the two; Background on Croneberger and Spong.

Features the old Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey, which was closed in 1970. Deterioration of the building; Brief history of the prison; Availability of information on criminals in the building's premises; Risk posed by the scattered documents.

Reports the order made by a judge in Newark, New Jersey mandating the city government to devise a restoration plan of a cemetery used as garbage dump site. Background of the case that led to the order of the judge; Information on the cemetery.

Reports on the proposed recalculation of Newark, New Jersey's property tax system. The city's last revaluation in 1961; Middle-class homeowners as the most likely to feel the pinch; Inequities within the city that need to be rectified; Examples of how the burden will shift.

Focuses on the Essex-Union Auto Theft Task Force in Newark, New Jersey. The group founded in 1991 to combat Newark's standing as the nation's auto theft capital; Effectiveness of the task force; The development of strategies for trapping car thieves; Comments from task force commander, Thomas DeCastro.

Focuses on the arrest of eight men for running gambling and loan-sharking operations along the Newark docks in New Jersey. The men described as being part of the Genovese crime family; Mention of the Ironbound Republican Club as one of the mob's organizations; Brief details of the arrests and racketeering charges.

Focuses on three immigrants from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia who now work in Newark baking a French pastry called brioche. The role of Serge Lelong, a racer and professional skier who is the descendant of a brioche-baking family in France; The Golden Brioche shops that Lelong owned in Manhattan, New York during the 1980s; Lelong's role in teaching the immigrants how to bake brioche.

Reports that hours before he was expected to plead guilty to murdering two pizza deliverymen, Thomas J. Koskovich attempted to commit suicide on July 9, 1998 in his prison cell in Newark, New Jersey. Condition of Koskovich, who was taken to Newton Memorial Hospital; Details on the suicide attempt; Remarks by Koskovich's lawyer, Pamela Brause; Terms of the guilty plead agreement; Factors relating to the 1997 killings; Security at the hospital.

Reports on the suspension of four veteran police supervisors and an officer of the Newark Police Department's East District in new Jersey, who were associated with the city's gun buy-back program. Statement made by Joseph J. Santiago, Newark's police director; Names of the offenders; Details on the case which was handed over to the Essex County Prosecutor, Patricia A. Hurt.

Reports that a shooting incident of three men by police in Newark, New Jersey would be presented to the state grand jury by Attorney General, Peter G. Verniero. Why the case would not be presented to a panel in Mercer County, where the incident took place; Details on the shooting; Date and time of the incident; Comments from Verniero.

Focuses on the beginning of the investigation into the slayings of 14 black women over a period of five years in the Newark, New Jersey area by a Essex County task force on April 2, 1998. Identification of different suspects in six of the cases; Concerns expressed by state, county and local law enforcement officials about a possible pattern of murdered women and a number of unsolved cases; Comments from Patricia A. Hurt, the Essex County Prosecutor who created the task force.

Looks at the debate which occurred over sexual photographs in a display, in the Robeson Student Center gallery at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Details of the pictures taken by Copy Berg and his companion, Paul Nash; Diagnosis of Berg and Nash with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) disease; Comments from Berg; Negative response created by the photographs.

Focuses on the pledge of Newark, New Jersey Mayor Sharpe James to increase the city's police force by 200 officers to reduce the city's property taxes by five percent, as announced during his State of the City address on January 29, 1998. Other issues which James plans to address; Cost of hiring the police officers; Role of the police officers; Amount of money the reduction of property taxes will cost the city; Comments from James; Further details.

Reports on the number of men who were arrested in Newark, New Jersey on August 4, 1998 by Federal agents, charged with multiple counts of conspiring to sell narcotics from a home on a residential street. How the arrested men were described by law enforcement officials; Murder charge brought against one of the men, Shayne Love.

States that in Newark, New Jersey on July 24, 1998, Gregory H. James dressed partly in military fatigues carried what appeared to be seven sticks of dynamite attached to a timer into a downtown officer building, causing panic and confusion. Number of people who were evacuated from the building at 18 Rector Street; What the building houses; Indication that the dynamite was fake; Charges brought against James. INSET: Bomb scare in Newark.