Lumberton News

New Jersey Air National Guard Master Sgt. Patrick Basnett, of Evesham and Master Sgt.

Former Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt was indicted today for accepting a $10,000 bribe.

Shared services don't need to be a huge deal to help a community. Sometimes they can be as small as a Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck.

An appeals court rejected a convicted killer's last bid to have his conviction and life sentence overturned for the 1998 murder of his girlfriend in her Lumberton apartment.

Those planning to discard gently used clothing, toys or household items can donate them to a new Goodwill center on Old Marlton Pike.

A pedestrian stop led police to arrest a city man and confiscate a cache of items stolen from nearly 100 vehicles in five Burlington County communities over the past months.

The Township Committee has agreed to make the minutes from its executive sessions available to the public in a more prompt manner.

The rally was part of a nationwide protest yesterday staged by medical professionals and their supporters to voice displeasure at the health care legislation making its way through Congress.

Walmart and Mollen Immunization Clinics announced that healthcare professionals will administer H1N1 flu shots in select stores in New Jersey for $15 beginning today.

Residents all over Burlington County contributed to a massive collection of expired drugs and medication on Saturday.

A proposed settlement exceeding $2 million has been reached with the last defendant in a class-action lawsuit for property damages brought against owners of dams along Rancocas Creek.

The Burlington County Bridge Commission reappointed John B. Comegno II to serve as its chairman at its annual reorganization meeting Tuesday.

If you want to head outdoors this weekend, you'll have plenty of opportunities.

Around this time last year, members of the Burlington County Democratic Party were crowing about a huge presidential victory and the election of Democrats to two county freeholder seats and to the county clerk's position.

A student-run musical production of "A Christmas Carol" will take the stage next month at Rancocas Valley Regional High School.

Workers in wetsuits last month began clearing the fallen trees and wooded debris that clog parts of the Rancocas Creek for miles.

With a tug on the rope, the mighty catapult furiously unleashed a pumpkin across the cloudy skies.

Police have arrested a trio who they say are responsible for at least nine car break-ins and the theft of property valued at more than $2,100. Sgt.

Flying through the air, the great pumpkin will appear. It sounds a bit like the story from the classic Peanuts Halloween television special, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," that Linus tells from the pumpkin patch each year.

Four feet of floodwater had filled John Phelan's basement by the time he rushed in to rescue his dog from drowning in an animal crate.