FIve people were found dead at the Oakwood Plaza Apartments in Elizabeth in one incident while three people drowned in Hillsborough in separate incidents.
While caring for animals outside, police heard barking from inside the residence and soon found nine dogs "in varying stages of emaciation, without access to food and water."
A Somerville man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for setting fire to a Hillsborough home in which nine people were sleeping — four of them children.
A man who brought his computer to a store for repairs in 2018 was arrested when the tech noticed sexually-explicit images of children had been downloaded, police said.