Manville

Thomas Kaiser, 60, and son Erich Kaiser, 29, plead guilty to firing off a signal cannon in a Manville park on July 6 that severely injured a bystander.

Manville police chief Thomas Herbst was charged in 2023 of "abhorrent" sexual abuse that went on for over a decade.

An explosion in a Manville park during a party on July 6 sent shrapnel flying 75 feet into his abdomen that led to 10 surgeries in three weeks and he's not done.

Thomas Kaiser, charged in connection with the explosion of a device in a Manville park, discarded explosives at his South Plainfield home in 2019 which led to the cancellation of the Labor Day parade.

Police said a signal cannon, a device designed to create a large boom and smoke when lit, sent shrapnel into several vehicles and homes near a Manville park.

Surveillance video of the explosion obtained by CBS New York shows someone lighting the device inside Cooper Street Park in Manville and then run away just before it went off.

Following a trial in March, a Somerset County Jury convicted Raul Elias of endangering the welfare of a child.

Alfonsina Anguita, of Manville, was arrested after signs of physical abuse in a toddler were seen and reported at a hospital in Somerset County.

Dover Fire Department Lt. Bryan Waagner told NJ.com that six people were rescued from one house on East Blackwell Street and four from another.

There are two more storm systems aiming for New Jersey in the next week, along with an intrusion of very cold arctic air this weekend.