Teenager dies after being shot in Newark

  Eyewitness NewsNEWARK -- Authorities say a Newark teenager has died after being shot in the city on Saturday night.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray says officers responded to reports of shots fired in the 200 block of Garside Street around 10:25 p.m. Saturday and soon found 17-year-old Juan Cabrera.

No other injuries were reported.

Cabrera was taken to a hospital, where he died a short time later.

A motive for the shooting was not immediately known. No arrests had been made as of early Sunday afternoon.

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Man dies after being pullled from Bradley Beach waters

  BRADLEY BEACH (WABC) -- A 24-year-old man from Jersey City apparently drowned at the Jersey Shore Tuesday evening.

The victim was pulled from the ocean off Bradley Beach about 7 p.m.

Officials believe he was caught in a rip current.

Four other men in his group also had to be rescued.

There was no lifeguard on duty at the time.

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Child in critical condition after being hit by pole

  Eyewitness NewsLODI (WABC) -- A young boy in New Jersey is in critical condition after he was struck by a large metal pole on Thursday.

Police say two brothers, reported to be ages 6 and 11, were playing in a backyard on Walnut Place in Lodi when the rusty pole collapsed and fell on top of them.

One of the boys, believed to be the 6-year-old, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center suffering from traumatic arrest, in which a severe chest injury causes the heart to stop beating.

EMTs reportedly spend a long time working on the boy, and his condition remains unclear.

The other boy suffered an injured leg.

According to neighbors, the kids were playing on a clothesline. They apparently threw a scooter over the line and were hanging on it when the pole holding the clothesline snapped and fell on the boy.

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Bear captured after being stuck in tree in Union, N.J.

  Eyewitness NewsUNION, New Jersey (WABC) -- A bear was caught after being stuck in a tree in Union, New Jersey.

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The bear was hanging out in a tree on the side of Union's town hall. Wildlife officials were able to tranquilize the bear who fell into netting before running out.

The 18 month old black bear finally ended up in a neighborhood.

The bear first was seen overnight before taking his place in the tree.

Wildlife tagged the 186 pound bear and will be moved to the woods where he belongs.

In most cases officials say they are male bears who are kicked out of the den once the mother has more cubs, and they just end up lost.

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Woman saved from being sex slave by Facebook

  Andy Field, Eyewitness NewsHACKENSACK, N.J. (WABC) -- Police in New Jersey say a woman was forced into prostitution and used Facebook to get rescued.

Police say the 30-year-old woman sent a message to her brother in Florida saying she was being held against her will.

New Jersey Police think 29-year-old Trenace McCarroll bailed out a woman from jail and then essentially kidnapped her and worked her as a prostitute to pay off the bail money.

He thought the woman had no cell service but she did have an iPhone that got a Wi-Fi signal.

She used it to put out a call for help on Facebook to her family, who called Hackensack Police, who then went to McCarroll's apartment but didn't find him.

He called back, turned himself into the police station with the woman in the car.

The police chief says she might still be a sex slave if it wasn't for her iPhone and Facebook.

"It had no service, so I think that he was under the impression that she couldn't do anything with it, but as we all know, these new phones you have Wi-Fi access and there's a lot of Wi-Fi spots," said Captain Tomas Padilla, Hackensack Police Department.

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