Little Egg Harbor

Jacquelyn Walker has been charged with vehicular homicide after a deadly crash early Saturday, according to authorities.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes touched-down in South Jersey early Friday morning as Tropical Storm Elsa was passing through the region.

Officials in Hamilton Township say a woman was under the influence of drugs when she crashed her SUV into a pole and tree back in April; her two children were not properly in car seats at the time and one was seriously injured.

The driver who killed a Pinelands Regional High School student in a head-on crash January 30 was found to have had at least three drugs in his system, authorities said.

A magnitude 2.4 earthquake was registered in the Tuckerton-Little Egg Harbor area Wednesday morning.

A man from Pleasantville has been arrested and charged after authorities say he made threats against a high school in southern Ocean County late last month.

The park will accommodate small and large dogs with 4.5 acres of land on Route 539.

“We are extremely grateful, very proud. Proud of the DEP’s forest firefighters as well as all the local firefighters that came throughout the county. I believe even Burlington County firefighters came,” one resident said.

Until there is a good soaking rain the risk of fire will remain high across the state with low humidity, dry conditions and increasing winds.

A wildfire that burned 70 acres along Route 9 in the Bass River State Forest on Sunday continues to burn, creating a haze of heavy smoke on Monday as fire crews.