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The president of the New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association has called the execution-style murder of two New York police officers on Saturday "an act of domestic terrorism."

NEW YORK (AP) -- The New York City medical examiner announced Monday that the police killing of an unarmed man in a dark public housing stairwell was a homicide, and politicians planned to meet with prosecutors later in the day to discuss the findings.

EAST ORANGE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer was shot and wounded in East Orange during a confrontation with a suspect.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) -- Ferguson city leaders urged people to stay home after dark Tuesday to "allow peace to settle in" and pledged to try to improve the police force in the St. Louis suburb where the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown has sparked nightly clashes between protesters and police.

Authorities continue to search for a suspect involved in a police shooting in southern New Jersey that left another suspect hospitalized.

A man shot and wounded by a Trenton police detective two years ago has been sentenced to six years in state prison.

Prosecutors say a Bergen County grand jury has declined to issue indictments in a police shooting that left a Garfield man dead after he fled from custody last year.

Jersey City officials say police shot and wounded a man who had barricaded himself inside a city home.

Prosecutors say a northern New Jersey police officer shot and killed an armed man this weekend.