the Burlington County Times

Atlantic City will pay $3 million to settle an excessive-force lawsuit brought by a man who was seriously injured during a 2013 arrest outside a city casino.

A South Jersey jury convicted a 29-year-old Cinnaminson man on all charges stemming from the grisly murder of his girlfriend and her father last year.

A former New Jersey high school teacher and football coach has been sentenced to nearly a year in jail after admitting he stole more than $14,000 in student funds to support a gambling habit.

A 73-year-old man died after police say he was run over by a tractor on his South Jersey farm.

A South Jersey woman admitted to selling tickets to a purported Sheryl Crow concert, even though she knew the artist wouldn’t be performing there.

A jury has acquitted a southern New Jersey man of manslaughter but found him guilty of aggravated assault in the 2014 death of his mother.

Mom pleads guilty to setting baby on fire in roadway.

A 14-year-old boy crouched in the schoolyard outside a New Jersey elementary school with a fake gun hoping that police would take the threat seriously and shoot him to death, authorities said.

A South Jersey man charged in the killing of his mother on Father’s Day last year has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Ron Martin, a veteran newspaperman who served as executive editor of The Burlington County Times for several years, has died. He was 67.

Police departments in a South Jersey county will be able to obtain supplies of an overdose antidote for free through a partnership with three major hospitals.

A 14-year-old died after her all-terrain vehicle collided with another ATV in South Jersey, said state police.

A southern New Jersey man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he killed his brother by running him over with a car last year.

A New Jersey woman accused of setting her newborn on fire and leaving her in the middle of a street to die will undergo a mental evaluation.

A southern New Jersey man has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of his mother last year.

A New Jersey library whose Latin motto got lost in translation is getting a new one.

Hyphernkemberly Dorvilier, the 22-year-old woman accused of dousing her newborn with accelerant then setting her on fire in the middle of Pemberton Township road, killing the baby girl, pleaded not guilty to the child’s murder. Her lawyer announced Dorvilier plans to change her plea to not guilty by reason of insanity or diminished capacity.

A woman accused of setting her newborn on fire and leaving her in the middle of a New Jersey street has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge.

New Jersey officials say a homeless man was found dead in a tent on a frigid day.

Authorities say a passing motorist helped them nab a bank robbery suspect in southern New Jersey.