Garden State Parkway

As a wildfire continued to burn in Ocean County, New Jersey, the smoky conditions contributed to the hourslong closure of a miles of the Garden State Parkway just as folks head to the Jersey Shore for the weekend.

Three people died in a violent crash on the Garden State Parkway that sent one vehicle into a guardrail and then off the road, where it flipped over and smashed into a tree, authorities say. New Jersey State Police troopers responding to a report of a two-vehicle crash on the highway in Monmouth County’s Aberdeen Township, near milepost 119.7, around…