New Jersey

A massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, has burned thousands of acres, forced thousands of evacuations and closed several roads. 

A massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, forced evacuations and shut down roads officials said.

Police are searching for a Pennsylvania man accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl in New Jersey. Shane Hennesy, 22, of Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, was charged back on Feb. 20, 2025, with aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Police said Hennesy sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Pine Hill, New Jersey, between December 2024...

Officials are searching for a Princeton University student who went missing in Princeton, New Jersey, over the weekend. Lauren Blackburn, 23, was last seen around 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 19, 2025, in the area of the Firestone Library on Princeton’s campus. He was wearing blue jeans that were torn at the knees, a yellow t-shirt, a black, zippered hooded...

Hundreds of people packed into a Barcelona church on Tuesday to mourn a Spanish family of five who died earlier this month in a sightseeing helicopter crash in New York City and whose bodies were laid to rest in Spain. As church bells tolled against a brilliant blue sky, mourners gathered and wept quietly as they paid respects to Agustín Escobar,...

Nadine Menendez, the wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez, has been found guilty on all counts in her federal bribery trial. She was found guilty of bribery, obstruction of justice and helping her husband sell his office to work as a foreign agent for Egypt, all in exchange for taking hundreds of thousands in cash, gold bars and a new...

Nadine Menendez, wearing a pink facemask, stood beside her defense attorney as the verdict was read. Sentencing was scheduled for June 12. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports. 

A jury found Nadine Menendez guilty on all counts in a bribery case in which prosecutors said she was a “critical participant” in the five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, as they accepted cash, gold bars and a luxury car from three New Jersey men looking for help with business dealings or legal woes. The jury...

A jury is resuming deliberations Monday in the bribery case brought against Nadine Menendez after a prosecutor told a jury that she was a “critical participant” in a five-year fraud with her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. The jury began considering the charges against the 58-year-old Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, resident in mid-afternoon on Friday in Manhattan federal court. Jurors went...

Some New Jersey families are desperately fighting to save their business and their homes, as all could become victims of eminent domain. So why does the city want their properties? NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Four New Jersey families have called the same building home for more than a decade, but they may be one step closer to possibly losing it forever after their city voted to designate the property as “in need of redevelopment.”

A number of families in New Jersey are desperately fighting to save their business and homes from eminent domain. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford explains why the city, Perth Amboy, wants their properties. 

A New Jersey man has been indicted on 15 counts of third-degree invasion of privacy after prosecutors said he allegedly secretly recorded multiple men without their consent inside the restrooms of a Planet Fitness and Wawa.

A prosecutor repeatedly referred to Nadine Menendez as the “partner in crime” of her husband — former Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez — while asking a jury in a trial’s closing argument Thursday to convict her of bribery charges.

Prosecutors said Nadine Menendez was a partner in her husband’s crimes, helping to collect payoffs from three New Jersey businessmen in a wide-ranging scheme. The defense argued some of the gold she received was not bribes, but rather were passed down from her family or were gifts from businessmen who were longtime friends. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst...

A man was arrested and charged with killing his ex-girlfriend and her 13-year-old daughter in Trenton, New Jersey.

An expert panel assembled by USA TODAY 10BEST compiled a list of the best boardwalks nationwide, and several along the Jersey Shore made the cut.

Law enforcement officials in New Jersey have brought a lawsuit against the messaging app Discord claiming it doesn’t do enough to protect kids.

New Jersey Transit train engineers have rejected a labor agreement with management, raising the potential for a strike or a lockout next month. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen on Tuesday rejected the March deal by a margin of 87%, the union said in a statement. The Railway Labor Act permits the workers to strike or NJ Transit’s management...

Law enforcement officials in New Jersey have charged a 34-year-old man of Fort Lauderdale, Florida after he, allegedly carried a ‘small arsenal’ through Newark-Penn Station in before being arrested in Trenton.