Sharpe James, a five-term mayor of Newark, has died.He was 89 years old. James, who served as mayor between 1986 and 2006, died Sunday at an elder care facility in West Orange, according to his ...

Sharpe James, the charismatic and combative mayor of Newark for 20 years who presided over a downtown resurgence and pressed to upgrade its blighted neighborhoods, but who was later convicted in a ...

Newark Mayor Sharpe James is seen in a track and field picture which appeared in his 1958 college yearbook. Star-Ledger file photo. After college, he joined the Army, serving in Germany.

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James was ordered today to serve 27 months in prison and pay a $100,000 fine for fraud and conspiracy, a sentence that capped a spectacular downfall for one of New ...

Sharpe James, a five-term mayor of Newark, has died. He was 89 years old. James, who served as mayor between 1986 and 2006, died Sunday at an elder care facility in West Orange, according to his ...

Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James, center, leaves the U.S. District Court in Newark in 2008 after he was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for his role in the cut-rate sales of ...

NEWARK, N.J. — Sharpe James, the charismatic longest-serving mayor of Newark whose political accomplishments were marred by a corruption conviction, has died. He was 89.

Sharpe James, the larger-than-life former mayor of Newark who became a symbol of the corruption that has long bedeviled New Jersey's largest city, was convicted of five counts of federal fraud on ...

Sharpe James, The Longest-Serving Mayor Of Newark, NJ, Dies At 89 James was known as one of Jersey’s most powerful politicians, leading high-profile efforts to attract development opportunities ...

James beat Gibson, his former mentor, by a 2-to-1 margin to become Newark’s 35th mayor. While Gibson had been pragmatist, always focusing on what was achievable, James was a dreamer, one who ...

Sharpe James, the charismatic longest-serving mayor of Newark whose political accomplishments were marred by a corruption conviction, died May 11 at 89. His son John Sharpe James, a former Newark ...