Cumberland County

A New Jersey man who helped dupe dozens into sending millions of dollars to people posing as U.S. military personnel in an online dating scheme has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison. Rubbin Sarpong must also pay more than $3 million in restitution to 36 victims under the sentence imposed Tuesday, as well as more than $385,000 to the IRS.

A boy who was one of five children ejected in a two-car crash on Route 55 died Wednesday night in South Jersey.

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.

A state appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a southern New Jersey man convicted of sexually abusing his daughter beginning when she was 5, and ordered a new trial

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 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…

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.

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

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.