Burlington County News

When heavy trucks rumble across the Burlington-Bristol Bridge, new sensors detect the stresses they put on the 2,300-foot span and instantly transmit the information to computers in Philadelphia.

Two more Burlington County residents have died from swine flu, health officials said Wednesday.

Paterson police say 28-year-old Ayanna Hill was stabbed 18 times and 60-year-old Cynthia Betts was stabbed seven times with a kitchen knife and scissors.

Two men from Passaic County are among six new swine-flu deaths reported this week by the state Department of Health.

Like many teens his age, Laron Brown loved video games, food and cars. But the 15-year-old avoided trouble, his mother, Paula Elliott, said Tuesday at the family's Pemberton Township home.

A teacher at the township high school was charged with sexually assaulting a student during the 2008-09 school year, police said.

New Jersey State Police released pictures of two distinctive tattoos today they hope might help identify a woman who was found dead along the banks of the Delaware River in Burlington County.

An 18-year-old Pemberton Township man, who allegedly killed a township teen by punching him in the chest Saturday, has been charged with reckless manslaughter, authorities said.

The Burlington County Prosecutora s Office says a 15-year-old boy died after being repeatedly punched in the chest by an 18-year-old friend.

Philadelphia's unemployment rate of 11 percent in September topped all area counties, according to data released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday.

A Willingboro man who stabbed his elderly mother to death and then set her house on fire pleaded guilty to manslaughter and arson charges today that will carry a prison sentence of 28 1/2 years, according to a plea agreement worked out with the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office.

An assistant comptroller for Jersey City has been arrested in connection with a multi-county sting operation for trying to 'chat' with police posing as young girls in an online chat room, according to the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

Burlington County's congressional representatives cast conflicting votes over the weekend on health care reform.

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A veteran Republican New Jersey state senator and former Philadelphia television anchorwoman has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.

Corey Hunsberger waited for nearly four hours Friday afternoon to get H1N1 vaccinations for herself and her toddler son, Liam.

Heather Shinn knows there are only two dairy farms in Burlington County, but that is not deterring her from a career among the cows.

Drexel University civil engineering students Jaclyn Raciti, Evan Richter and Kevin Njinga cut class Friday to walk across and beneath the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge.

Another New Jersey resident has died from swine flu. State Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard said the 42-year-old Middlesex County man was hospitalized with underlying medical conditions.

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