Florence News

Tramaine White scored 23 points and led Burlington Township to a 47-45 win over Camden Catholic in the Sports Paradise Basketball League.

The Burlington County Emergency Services Training Center's graduation honored more than 100 graduates and two men with more than 25 years of service to the county.

The recently retired chief of the Florence Fire Department received a lifetime achievement award Monday night at the Burlington County emergency Services Training Center graduation.

Speed limits aren't a recommendation - they are the law. Violators put both themselves and people around them at risk.

Declaration of Independence makes a stop as Garden State marks 345 years. mhayes@phillyBurbs.comTRENTON - The state's 345th birthday celebration included more than cake and honored guests.The gathering at the State Museum featured two historic documents, the state's "birth certificate" and an original copy of the Declaration of Independence, both ...

A Ewing man was struck and killed by a River Line light-rail train Saturday night while walking along the tracks near a station, a NJ Transit official said Monday.

Griffin Pipe Products is planning to build a new 52,700-square-foot manufacturing addition to its Lynchburg plant.

Shawnee's Dave Forward, Cinnaminson's Todd Campbell and Northern Burlington's Michael Bowden held their own little Burlington County Open Thursday night at the Meet of Champions.

N.J. GOP gubernatorial candidate Christopher J. Christie hears from laid-off worker Al Ashinoff outside the closed Griffin Pipe foundry in Florence.

Standing in front of a shuttered pipe foundry in Florence, NJ on Wednesday where 250 jobs were cut a few months ago, Christie said that incumbent governor Jon Corzine is "out of touch" with people who are hurting not just under the economic crunch but in a system hostile to business: "It is extraordinarily important for us to change our tax policy, ...

For years schoolboy Daniel Senni of Florence had dreamed of learning Italian and of visiting the native country of his ancestors -- Italy.

A $25 million federal stimulus check would excite many towns, but the residents of Florence Township in Burlington County don't get their hopes up easily anymore.

The last of five defendants pleaded guilty Monday in Superior Court to the revenge killing of a man at a Burlington City social club two years ago.

Thirteen years ago, Burlington County freeholders dreamed up a plan to boost the area's economy, a plan tied to the tracks of a brand new River Line transit system.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced more than $25 million in new funding through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for the Roebling Steel site in Florence, New Jersey.

Severely polluted sites in 10 New Jersey communities will share more than $120 million of the cleanup money that the Environmental Protection Agency is distributing nationwide from the recently enacted economic stimulus plan.

WASHINGTON -- New Jersey is getting more than $100 million in new federal funding for cleanup of Superfund sites.

The Burlington County Republican Committee over the weekend endorsed candidates for freeholder and seats in the Seventh and Eighth Legislative Districts.

The Burlington County Republican Committee has pegged a Florence carpenter and a Medford attorney to run in place of longtime Freeholders Jim Wujcik and Bill Haines.

A 14-year-old boy from Springfield who was killed last year while trying to rescue his mother from their burning home was named today as a posthumous recipient of the prestigious Carnegie Medal for heroism.