Atlantic County News

A state appellate court decision may invalidate a South Brunswick ordinance that prevents registered sex offenders from living near schools, parks, playgrounds and day-care centers.

A Pleasantville man who was a fugitive in connection with the 2006 hit and run death of a Brigantine man was arrested Wednesday, Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel announced.

BUENA -- A maintenance worker at Wheat Manor Apartments sold drugs at the complex, police said.

New Jersey towns cannot place residential restrictions on sex offenders, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Joined by area municipal officials, Republican Freeholder At-Large candidates Tom Ballistreri and Manny Aponte along with District 3 Freeholder Frank Sutton today called the recent legislation forcing more low ...

MAYS LANDING - Atlantic County Prosecutor Theodore Housel announced the sentencings of two area residents in the Family Division of Superior Court.

Does anyone else think that it is time for a serious investigation into whether the Bush administration's energy-policy deliberations under the leadership of Vice President Dick Cheney constituted a conspiracy ...

Corbin City Mayor Carol Foster went to Trenton on Thursday to apply for a grant to study the elimination of her town.

An Atlantic City elementary school teacher has implicated three people, including his principal, in his claims of harassment, extortion and terroristic threats.

After being charged eight months ago with orchestrating the killing of his wife in a sensational murder-for-hire scheme, Fabio Garcia is now a free man.

Two men were charged in connection with an armed robbery in Atlantic City, police said.

BUENA -- Police filed new narcotics charges against a borough man arrested earlier this year on drug offenses.

The Atlantic County Medical Examiner's Office and police detectives here are investigating the death of an 18-year-old Collingswood High School graduate who died here early Monday morning, according to the ...

Would you like the option of working a 10-hour-day, four-day workweek - as well as some flexibility about which day off you take? Sounds like a pretty good deal, doesn't it? That's the new pilot program at the ...

A former Atlantic County school employee has been charged with stealing more than $24,000 worth of the school's technology equipment and selling it on eBay.

One berry picker has been charged with stabbing another on a Nesco farm, less than two weeks after a similar incident nearby.

Slot machines are often called one-armed bandits. But in the case of a New York couple, the gambling games became an accomplice in an attempt to launder $1 million.

In last year's election for Atlantic County executive, Sheriff Jim McGettigan, a Democrat, lost to incumbent Republican Dennis Levinson by a margin of nearly 2-1. The race was largely seen as a disaster for ...

Atlantic County residents who need assistance have easy access to a variety of essential programs and services provided by the county Division of Intergenerational Services.

Should Atlantic County borrow $24 million to help fund a $40 million expansion of the Atlantic County Institute of Technology? We thought we'd ask, since county freeholders apparently don't intend to ask you.