Rancocas News

Heavy rains soaked New Jersey today and caused minor flooding problems, just one week after another massive storm system dropped up to two feet of snow on the state.

A state judge approved a $2.15 million settlement Tuesday that will be paid by a camp that owns three Medford dams as compensation for flood damage to homes and businesses in 2004.

The first Europeans to arrive in what is now South Jersey discovered the region was inhabited by friendly natives, the Lenape.

Downtown Chatsworth will again celebrate New Jersey's cranberry harvest. The 26th annual Cranberry Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. near the old White Horse Inn at the intersection of Routes 532 and 563.

The police force's crime-fighting abilities are about to get more dogged. The Police Department welcomed its newest member Tuesday night - a 2-year-old German shepherd.

Voters will decide in November if they want nonprofit groups to hold fundraising games of chance like raffles, 50-50s or bingo in Moorestown, which now prohibits them.

Palmyra - Burlington County Bridge Commissioners announced for the ninth consecutive year that there would be no toll increase on its two toll bridges.