New Jersey

A huge fire broke out at a New Jersey chemical plant Friday evening, sending massive plumes of black smoke billowing into the air.

A deluge of applications has forced some states to shut their federal rental assistance programs earlier than expected.

A New Jersey Walmart turned away customers Tuesday evening and will remain closed to the public on Wednesday after dozens of employees tested positive for COVID-19, a worker at the store said.

One of New Jersey’s most notorious cold cases took another twist Tuesday, as the state Supreme Court overturned a woman’s conviction in the 1991 murder of her 5-year-old son.

Hundreds have gathered on both sides of the Delaware River to watch an annual Christmas Day reenactment of George Washington’s 1776 crossing.

Omicron’s grip on the Garden State continued to deliver record case counts on Christmas, when the health department reported a whopping 16,626 positive tests. The latest figures represent a 143% increase from the daily numbers reported four days earlier, on Dec. 21. New Jersey has broken daily case record for a fourth straight day after quickly catching up to the…

The mother was screaming and Cecilia Morales, who joined the TSA in October, tried to tell her what to do. She was too panicked — so Morales quite literally leaped into action.

Scott Spina admitted to selling three “family and friends” 2016 New England Patriots Super Bowl rings – engraved with Tom Brady’s last name – that he obtained by impersonating another player.

Santa and a group of jolly firefighters had the perfect route over the weekend. As they delivered holiday cheer in a South Jersey community, they happened upon a house fire and saved the family inside — who didn’t even know their home was ablaze.

A man who has owned hundreds of rental units scattered across 18 residential properties in Elizabeth, New Jersey, has agreed to pay $4.5 million in connection to a lawsuit concerning his sexual harassment of tenants and housing applicants for more than 15 years, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Joseph Centanni, 74, of Mountainside, was charged over the summer with sexual…

Chris Christie is everywhere. The former New Jersey governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate denounced “conspiracy theorists” during a September appearance at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. He followed up with a speech this month to influential Republicans in Las Vegas, warning that the party will only succeed if it offers a “plan for tomorrow, not a grievance about…

An off-duty Newark police officer fatally struck a man walking on a highway shoulder then drove around with the man’s body and visited his mother looking for advice, according to charges released Wednesday.

A lawsuit filed on the family’s behalf claims the woman “begged” the complex to change the locks after she was granted a restraining order against her husband.

A New Jersey man who conspired with his girlfriend to concoct a feelgood story about a helpful homeless man and then used the lie to raise $400,000 in donations online has pleaded guilty in federal court. Mark D’Amico is scheduled to be sentenced in March.

Two people were injured in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, after a dump truck slammed into a house.

Francoise Gross wants answers. The New Jersey mother says there’s too many outstanding questions surrounding the death of her 19-year-old daughter and Penn State student, Justine Gross. The sophomore student had been reported missing Nov. 11 after she failed to return to her room the night before. State College Police said Justine Gross died after falling 11 stories down a…

Police allege the mother of a 14-year-old New Jersey girl, whose disappearance drew national attention, brutally abused her for years and forced her to skip school and beg for money on the streets.

An elite but often-underwater beach town at the Jersey Shore is looking for its own solutions to back bay flooding, deciding it can’t wait for state and federal officials to agree on a fix

One of two men killed in Thursday’s plane crash in a wooden area of New Jersey had traveled to space less than a month ago aboard a Blue Origin flight with William Shatner. New Jersey State Police said 49-year-old Glen de Vries, of New York, and 54-year-old Thomas Fischer, of New Jersey, died when a small plane crashed shortly...

A law enforcement officer in New Jersey was shot multiple times Friday evening while executing a search warrant, sources told NBC New York.