New Jersey

A full-size school bus somehow crashed into a house in New Jersey early Friday, slamming into it so hard that it shifted the foundation and compromised the entire structure, authorities say. The crash occurred around 9 a.m. in West Caldwell, near Terrace Place and Passaic Avenue. No kids were aboard the bus. Witnesses said the driver was led from the…

A 29-year-old woman in facing charges after she allegedly posed as someone almost half her age and enrolled in a New Jersey high school.

The owner of a young alligator discovered earlier this week inside a plastic container in an empty New Jersey lot was located and is now facing charges, according to officials, after authorities found out that the “good Samaritans” who called in the discovery were actually behind the reptile’s abandonment. Savion Mendez of East Orange, and the alleged finder Angel...

A whale that was found dead on a New Jersey beach last week was likely struck by a vessel, investigators determined. 

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It wasn’t what he ordered, but a West New York man found a knife jammed into his Amazon delivery — but it’s not clear how it go there. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.

The order was very simple: a box of raisins. It arrived on time, but it included something the customer did not order and left the West New York man speechless after he found it.

The pastor for a New Jersey couple was in the middle of delivering the wedding vows when he collapsed at the altar, going into cardiac arrest — but thankfully a caterer for the wedding was also an EMT, and worked on him for a half-hour by herself to help save his life.

An art teacher at a New Jersey middle school has been arrested after he overdosed on fentanyl in front of students mid-class, police said.

A New Jersey man could face charges after abandoning his dog at an airport thousands of miles away, in Iowa. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

A 1-year-old pup named Allie was left abandoned at the airport in Des Moines, Iowa, on Dec. 29th, tied up out front of the terminal when her owner was told that without a crate, he couldn’t fly her home

A woman was found guilty of killing her 23-month-old son and then telling police he had been kidnapped before his remains were found buried in the yard of her New Jersey home.

A man who was serving in the Air National Guard died after he fell while snowboarding at an indoor ski park inside a New Jersey mall, officials and family members said.

How did a massive oil tanker heading from Amsterdam to New York stumble upon the battered sailboat lost at sea, carrying the two friends from Cape May, New Jersey, and Minnie the poodle — all of whom were on the brink of death?

Two men who went missing on a sailboat that left New Jersey and was headed for the Florida Keys have been found safe, family members confirmed with NBC10.

Nancy Carol Fitzgerald disappeared without a trace 50 years ago. Investigators said it would take 16 years to find her remains and another 34 before she could be positively identified. New Jersey officials said the 16-year-old girl vanished from her Bloomfield home the day after Easter in April 1972, “never seen or heard from again.” On Monday, the Monmouth County…

A New Jersey residence has been condemned and its residents arrested after law enforcement uncovered an active “puppy mill” with 180 animals caged inside, police announced Saturday. An anonymous complaint first alerted police to the home off Arrowhead Park Drive in Brick Township Friday evening. Two patrol officers responded to the home around 7:30 p.m. and met with the homeowners…

A fatal fire claimed at least three lives in New Jersey at a family home in Clifton late Friday. Authorities said the fire started around 7:30 p.m. at a residence on Ladwick Lane. Emergency responders rushed to the house but three people were lost in the fire. The victims were Steven Warga, 65, Elaine Warga, 71, and Helen Popovich, 95,…

Some new digital signs on New Jersey roads and highways were designed to grab attention, but the snarky messages got the wrong kind of attention: from the federal government.

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