New Jersey

A rifle-toting U.S. Army trainee from New Jersey allegedly hijacked a school bus full of kids in South Carolina, holding the driver at gunpoint, in what officials believe was a desperate attempt to get home.

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.

New Jersey residents who get their first Covid vaccination in May will be eligible for a free beer at select breweries, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday.

On the same day Jersey City students finally returned to their classrooms, a high school teacher was removed from them while under investigation for allegedly going on a vulgar tirade aimed at the children in his class.

A New Jersey serial killer known as the “Torso Killer” pleaded guilty Tuesday to two 1974 murders, finally closing the cold-case deaths of teenage friends who had left home for a trip to the mall and never returned. Richard Cottingham, 74, is currently in state prison on a life sentence for other murders. He has claimed he was responsible for up...

You might know Margaret Josephs from ‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey,’ but there’s a story to how she got there. In new book “Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget,” Josephs talks about that journey.

Federal authorities announced charges against five people in New Jersey and Florida in what they said was a $93 million health care fraud scheme involving orthotic braces. The U.S. attorney’s office also announced Thursday that two people connected to the scheme in New Jersey had pleaded guilty. According to prosecutors, some of the defendants had hidden financial interests in...

Hometown International has a high market value given meager sales at the Your Hometown Deli in Paulsboro, New Jersey, its sole business.

With storms intensifying, rainfall increasing and sea levels rising, waterfront property owners are lifting their homes out of danger.

An out-of-work electrician with a 2-month-old child has become the latest tri-state area arrest in connection to the deadly U.S. Capitol siege that took place Jan. 6, according to federal prosecutors.

Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states — a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sending more doses to hot spots.

A man who allegedly choked a Burger King employee in New Jersey last month was told to leave the restaurant earlier in the day because he wasn’t wearing a mask, police said.

In New Jersey, one restaurant-goer was not too happy to be given a time limit to eat a meal at a local brewery and expressed disapproval on the bill — which went viral and has led to an outpouring of support for the restaurant staff.

A young girl died after falling into a septic tank at a New Jersey campground Saturday night.

The owners of two dogs will not face charges after their canines killed a 3-year-old boy and severely injured his mother as they played in their New Jersey back yard, according to the county prosecutor’s office.

As Gov. Andrew Cuomo prepares to drop New York’s longstanding quarantine requirement for domestic travelers in less than 24 hours, New Jersey officials are expected to warn the increasing prevalence of highly contagious coronavirus variants could send new daily case totals to record levels in mid-May.

President Joe Biden says Americans apparently are letting their guard down when it comes to the coronavirus

In what may be a first for universities in the country, Rutgers will require all 71,000 students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend classes this fall, the university’s president said Thursday.

A rare wildfire that burned about 167 acres in New Jersey on Sunday and left one firefighter critically injured was intentionally set, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office. “We have located the origin of the fire and have concluded that the fire was intentionally set,” prosecutor Bradley Billhimer said in a statement Friday. The fire started around 1:15 p.m. Sunday at...

A man suspected in the death of his ex-wife and three others in New Mexico and who was extradited to New Jersey last week for a separate murder charge in Gloucester County claimed in court Friday that he killed as many as 16 people.