Hamilton Township, NJ

Shaun King has built his image on being a champion of the poor and disenfranchised, but the controversial civil rights activist lives like a one-percenter in a sprawling lakefront home, records show. King, 41, moved earlier this year from a luxury two-bedroom apartment in downtown Brooklyn, to the five-bedroom, 3,000...

On Thursday evening, just after 7 p.m., an EF-3 tornado with peak winds of 140 mph ripped through Bensalem Township’s Trevose section. The massive funnel cut a trail of devastation as it destroyed homes and businesses, including several buildings of Faulkner Automotive Group in Trevose, just north of the intersection of Street Road and Old Lincoln Highway. It also damaged or flattened several residences in a nearby mobile home park. Six injuries were reported as of Friday, and no lives were lost. Uninsured damages appeared to be minimal.

TRENTON, NJ – The COVID-19 vaccine works. It protects 98% of Americans from serious illness if they happen to contract the virus. It also reduces the risk of death and hospitalization by 99.97%. But now, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has vaccination hesitancy and is once again requesting that all New Jerseyans go back to masking up, even those who are fully vaccinated.

The housing market is on FIRE! That’s if you’re a seller, not if you are a buyer. But see that’s the thing. You need a buyer in order for the seller to be hot. Confusing, I know. What does 'Sellers Market' mean?. The term “Sellers’ Market” is defined by when...

Health officials in New Jersey on Saturday reported 1,009 more coronavirus cases and nine additional deaths, though hospitalizations dropped for the first time in a week and the rate of transmission also dipped slightly. The Garden State’s seven-day average for newly confirmed positive tests increased to 836, up 32% from...

Damage survey teams from the National Weather Service have confirmed that five tornadoes touched down in New Jersey during Thursday’s rare outbreak of violent thunderstorms known as supercells — making this one of the state’s biggest tornado outbreaks on record. After inspecting the damage, reviewing photos and checking radar data,...

Two Evesham police officers delivered a baby girl in a home in a home last week, officials said. One of the two officers called to the Burlington County home on July 24 — trained U.S. Air Force combat medic Matthew Addezio — quickly realized there was no time to wait for paramedics to bring the first-time mom to a hospital, Evesham police said.

TRENTON — It's been a deadly month for the capital city. Police responded to a fatal shooting Friday morning on the first block of Kelsey Avenue, where they found 23-year-old Shaquil Lofton unresponsive behind the front door of a home. The shooting happened around 4:30 a.m., prosecutors said. Sources said...

A joint land use board in Waterford has rejected a request for a zoning variance to convert Atco Dragway, touted as the oldest drag-racing strip in the state, into a sprawling auto auction site. The board unanimously rejected the request Thursday from the Insurance Auto Auction Corp. during a special...

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A Freehold man died Friday after his co-workers found him at the bottom of a swimming pool on their employer’s property in Monmouth County, authorities said. Guilebaldo Ramos, 30, was found about 6:43 p.m. in the pool at a home on Conover Road in Millstone, according to New Jersey State Police Sgt. Philip Curry.

MOUNT HOLLY, N.J. (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed seven tornados in Pennsylvania and New Jersey during Thursday’s storm, including the EF-3 storm in eastern Pennsylvania and an EF-2 tornado that started in the Keystone State and then moved into the Garden State. Authorities in Bucks County said...