Animal control helps deer with head stuck in plastic pumpkin

A deer got its head stuck in a plastic pumpkin, but luckily, it had two friendly animal control officers come to its rescue.

Former NJ Gov. Chris Christie says he was wrong not to wear mask at White House

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that he was wrong not to wear a mask at the White House after he and President Donald Trump both came down with the coronavirus.

Johnson & Johnson pauses COVID-19 vaccine trial over 'unexplained illness'

Drug-maker Johnson & Johnson says it is temporarily pausing clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine due to "an unexplained illness in a study participant."

Ex-NJ governor Chris Christie says he's out of the hospital

Christie announced Oct. 3 that he had tested positive and said hours later that he had checked himself into the hospital after deciding with his doctors that doing so would be “an important precautionary measure," given his history of asthma.

NJ postal worker accused of throwing away election ballots

A mail carrier in New Jersey was arrested on Wednesday for discarding a large amount of mail, including general election ballots.

Chris Christie hospitalized hours after announcing positive coronavirus test

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has tweeted that he’s checked himself into a hospital, hours after confirming he had tested positive for the coronavirus.

New Jersey governor to introduce bill codifying Roe v. Wade

The bill would protect a woman’s right to “reproductive freedom and remove barriers” that prevent women from being able to get abortions.

Authorities: Mother drowns while trying to rescue 3 children in North Wildwood

Authorities were able to rescue two boys, ages 8 and 10, and a 19-year-old woman, but their 49-year-old mother was soon found face down off the shoreline.

Search for Dulce Maria Alavez continues 1 year since disappearance

Despite the passage of time, community members are still holding out hope Dulce Maria Alavez will be returned home safely.

21 arrests made in NJ child sexual exploitation sweep

An extensive investigation that targeted people who sexually exploited children online has netted 21 arrests in New Jersey,

Police break up NJ house party with 300 guests

Police arrested the owner of a house in Howell where a party attended by about 300 people took place despite a state order banning indoor gatherings of more than 25 people due to coronavirus concerns.

Federal judge speaks out after shooting death of son

Two weeks after her son was shot and killed and her husband was injured, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas released a video statement about why she believes she was targeted in her North Brunswick home.

FBI links men's rights lawyer to N.J., California killings

LOS ANGELES — Federal investigators have unspecified evidence linking the killing of a men's rights lawyer in California to the suspect in the ambush shooting of a federal judge’s family in New Jersey, authorities said Wednesday.The evidence allegedly connects Roy Den Hollander, another men's rights attorney who was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound the day after an attack that killed the judge’s son and wounded her husband, to the death of Marc Angelucci in San Bernardino County, California.FBI officials in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday would not describe the evidence or explain how it ties into the two cases.Angelucci was shot to death at his home on July 11.The FBI says Den Hollander was the “primary subject in the attack” Sunday at the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in North Brunswick, New Jersey, where 20-year-old Daniel Anderl was killed and his father, Mark Anderl, 63, was wounded.Salas, 51, was in another part of the house and was unharmed.