A popular city on the Jersey shore declared a state of emergency early Monday morning, shutting down its boardwalk in the midst of Memorial Day chaos and violence. Wildwood police rescinded the order at about 6 a.m., allowing authorities to deal with “numerous incidents of civil unrest,” KYW reported. “The City of Wildwood was able …
A Pennsylvania woman sobbed and said she wished she’d been “the one who died” as she was sentenced Friday to two life sentences for the murders of her father and his longtime partner. Sherry Lee Heffernan was found guilty in February in the deaths of John “Jack” Enders, 87, and Francoise “Frenchie” Pitoy, 75, on …
Christopher Gregor had forced his 6 year-old son to run on a treadmill at high speed for 12 minutes.
Andre Gordon is accused of killing his stepmother, sister, and the mother of his children.
A gunman who killed three people in Pennsylvania and then barricaded himself at a home in Trenton, New Jersey, has been captured. Trenton Police said that Andre Gordon, 26, surrendered peacefully at about 5:30 p.m. at a completely different location from where he had supposedly been barricaded for hours, WPVI reported. Investigators say Gordon shot …
David Shroitman stabbed Maryrose Fealey 37 times. Police have found no connection between them since they graduated high school in 2014.
A Philadelphia man has been charged with abducting two girls, driving them to New Jersey, where he sexually assaulted at least one of them, and then abandoning the girls on the side of a the road. Benjamin Pessin faces one count of kidnapping, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and one count …
A New Jersey elementary school teacher who vanished in June shortly after a restraining order against her husband was lifted has been found dead in Roxbury. Lara Emanuele, 46, was last seen June 7, and her vehicle was located the following day in the parking lot of a Roxbury Holiday Inn Express, about five miles …
A Delaware man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping an 11-year-old New Jersey girl he met playing an online video game last month. Prosecutors in Passaic County say that Darius Matylewich and the girl met while playing on the gaming platform Roblox, the Wayne, New Jersey, Patch reported. The girl’s parents reported her missing …
A family of four — including two young children — was found dead in a New Jersey home on Wednesday in what is being investigated as a murder-suicide. The four bodies were discovered at a Plainsboro home following a welfare check. Law enforcement sources told WABC that a man is believed to have killed his wife, …
New Jersey police are investigating after a 5-year-old child was found dead in a bathtub in a Newark apartment. The child was found unresponsive just after 7 p.m., the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said. The child was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead, WNBC reported. The medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine …
