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An 80-year-old man sitting in his living room and a truck driver weren’t seriously hurt as a dump truck slammed into a South Jersey home Monday morning, causing it to partially collapse onto the resident.

A 59-year-old man was charged for the sexual assault of a 10-year-old girl during a 1996 home invasion in New Jersey after detectives used DNA evidence to solve the 25-year-old cold case, authorities announced Friday. Brian Lee Avis, 59, of Egg Harbor City, was arrested Monday by the New Jersey State Police and Brigantine Police Department, and charged with aggravated…

A New Jersey woman is beyond grateful to a group of garbagemen who found her lost wedding and engagement rings in a local landfill after digging in the massive pile of trash for more than an hour.

Over the past month, police in Mullica Township, New Jersey, have received several 911 calls reporting extremely loud noises that sound like explosions or a “bomb dropped from a plane.”

Micah Tennant, the 10-year-old boy who was shot during a high school football playoff game at the Jersey Shore city of Pleasantville has died, his family said Wednesday.

The man accused of shooting into a crowded football game in South Jersey Friday night video chatted with an accomplice, who gave him the location of their intended target moments before shots rang out, according to court records.

The 10-year-old shot during a high school football playoff Friday night in the Jersey Shore city of Pleasantville remains in a coma, authorities said Monday.

Players and spectators ran for cover Friday night after a gunman opened fire on a crowded New Jersey high school football game.

A woman who allegedly was under the influence of alcohol and drugs when she caused a fiery head-on crash that killed a mom and her infant son has been charged with aggravated manslaughter.

A woman has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and murder in the beating deaths of her mother and grandmother in their New Jersey beach home last year.

New Jersey says it has bought its 700th home under a program to acquire and demolish houses in flood-prone areas — but nearly seven years after Superstorm Sandy, not one of those purchases has been along the ocean.

The referee who was heavily criticized for telling a New Jersey high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit his match has been suspended for two seasons following an official investigation.

New Jersey wildlife officials say they caught three would-be poachers with the help of a stuffed “robotic” deer.

A New Jersey special education teacher was arrested for allegedly having sex with a student.

Activists are calling for the wrestling referee who forced a high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks before a match to be permanently banned from the sport. Jen Maxfield reports.

Members of New Jersey’s activist community are demanding the permanent removal of the referee involved in forcing a high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks before a match or forfeit.

A man convicted in the slaying of a New Jersey radio show host in an alleged plot to prevent her from exposing a drug ring will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

No criminal charges are being pursued against Atlantic City’s mayor, a city councilman and three other people involved in an altercation outside a casino this month.

A man has been convicted in the slaying of a New Jersey radio show host in an alleged plot to prevent her from exposing a drug ring.

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