Salem County

The Penns Grove-Carneys Point regional district tried to fire middle school science teacher Bruce Bassetti last school year after several students reported hearing him quietly use an anti-black racial slur.

A new cooperative effort between the state and the New Jersey Audubon is under way to save the bog turtle, the state's official reptile.

A 3-year-old girl died after a being struck by a branch while in a tent at a Salem County campground, police say.

Programs in every county across New Jersey are looking for volunteers to be the voice for these children, as a "court appointed special advocate."

A 26-year-old cocaine dealer could be a middle-aged man when he's released from prison after a Superior Court judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison.

The symbol of Salem County, estimated to be 565 years old, stood on the property of the Salem Friends Meeting, which has maintained the tree since 1681.

A car-motorcycle crash in Salem County Saturday night claimed the lives of a Galloway woman and a Clayton man.

A South Jersey woman has filed a lawsuit against her male boss and the electrical contracting company they both worked for, claiming frequent and increasingly explicit sexual harassment over a more than two-year span.

An emaciated dog found in an abandoned house in Salem County is being nursed back to health in hopes of finding her a new home.

On this Valentine's Day, a survey done by the NJ Department of Health might make you develop a kissing aversion.