Cumberland County

A New Jersey detention officer has been suspended after he wrote “he should’ve ducked” in a Facebook post about a 5-year-old North Carolina boy who was shot and killed by a neighbor. The Cumberland County juvenile detention officer, Rome Smith, allegedly wrote the post last week, according to screenshots of the post shared online. The young boy, Cannon Hinnant,...

A Cumberland County juvenile detention officer has been suspended after he wrote “He should’ve ducked” on a Facebook post about 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant, the North Carolina boy who was shot and killed by a neighbor.

A dog survived after he was shot in the head and leg in Cumberland County, New Jersey. Now the search is on for the gunman who left him for dead.

Police arrested three men in the death of a young girl who was struck by a stray bullet inside her Bridgeton, New Jersey, home last month.

A woman was charged with murder after she allegedly used a nail clipper to stab her husband during a domestic dispute, authorities announced Tuesday.

A jury returned a mixed verdict Thursday for the first of four defendants to stand trial in the death of a 9-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet as she slept in her bed in her home. The Cumberland County jury found Leroy Frazier III, 21, not guilty of murder in the July 2018 death of Jennifer Trejo, but did…

A woman was charged with murder after she allegedly used a nail clipper to stab her husband during a domestic dispute, authorities announced Tuesday.

The woman says she did not mean to harm her husband, who was found bleeding and unresponsive by first responders in Melville, and only wanted to scare him. NBC New York’s Ted Greenberg reports.

New Jersey officials have ordered a statewide shutdown of a type of ride popular at carnivals after a 10-year-old girl died on one in South Jersey.

The owner of an amusement park ride from which a girl fell and died Saturday in southern New Jersey said he and his employees are “totally devastated” as the investigation continues into what went wrong.

A 10-year-old girl died after she fell from a ride at a South Jersey festival, police confirmed Sunday.

A New Jersey mother who allegedly told police she struck her toddler son, killing him, because he wouldn’t eat his breakfast has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges.

As the third week of desperate searching for missing five-year-old Dulce María Alavez begins, her mother spoke about the search, suspicion and her family’s pain.

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.

A North Carolina man has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade lake at a water park, officials said Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources said in a news release that the infection was caused by the amoeba naturally present in warm freshwater during the summer. The unnamed person became sick after swimming...

A New Jersey mother who police say told them she fatally struck her toddler son because he wouldn’t “eat nor listen to her” will remain jailed until her murder trial.

A New Jersey woman accused of killing her toddler son, then telling cops he had been kidnapped, told police she struck the boy because he wouldn’t “eat nor listen to her,” according to a criminal complaint.

A 24-year-old woman is facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing her child. Neighbors are shocked by the circumstances surrounding the baby’s death.

A mother who reported her toddler son abducted has been charged with murder after the remains of a child were found in the yard of the New Jersey home, authorities say.

A man accused of strangling his estranged wife and suffocating her infant daughter has been convicted on two counts of murder.