Chris Sheldon

An Atlantic City police officer was arrested this week on assault and other charges, the Atlantic City Police Department announced Friday.

A 20-year-old driver who died after he crashed his car in Hunterdon County in October was being pursued by the New Jersey State Police minutes earlier, investigators announced Friday.

A 71-year-old woman died Friday morning in a Camden County house fire, officials said.

The Mega Millions jackpot for Friday's lottery drawing has climbed to an estimated $862 million, with a cash option of $392.1 million.

| Four Indiana men were arrested last week and accused of murdering of a man whose body was found earlier this month in the woods in Ocean County, authorities said.

A body was found Sunday afternoon in Belleplain State Forest in Cape May County, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's State Park Police confirmed to NJ Advance Media.

The source of foul-tasting and smelling water in multiple New Jersey towns was identified Monday.

The man a was former executive and member of the Board of Directors of Humanigen, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with an office in Essex County.

A paralegal for a Union County-based law firm was arrested earlier this month after she wrote hundreds of checks to herself totaling over $700,000, officials said.

| A woman who worked as the on-site property manager of a condominium complex in Morris County was recently accused of participating in an elaborate scheme to defraud her employer, authorities announced Monday.