Jersey City Kindergarten Teacher's Death Ruled A Homicide

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A Jersey City kindergarten teacher whose body was found in a shallow grave Tuesday died by "blunt force trauma to the head and compressions to the neck," the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday. They said that the death of Luz Hernandez, 33, has been ruled a homicide. Hernandez was a mother of three as well as a teacher at Beloved Community Charter School in Jersey City, press reports said. The school alerted police on Monday that she didn't show up for work. Police conducted a...