Atlantic County

The father of a 4-year-old boy who shot and killed his 6-year-old playmate after finding a loaded .22-caliber rifle in his parents' home has been arrested after officials found "multiple" unsecured weapons accessible to children in the New Jersey house....

Gov. Steve Beshear launched Kentucky’s HERO Campaign for Designated Drivers on Friday, encouraging people to participate in designated driving programs throughout Kentucky and the nation. The national campaign was established by the family of Navy...

Maryland and Baltimore are sending nearly 30 more employees, including 25 state troopers, to New Jersey and New York to assist in recovery efforts following Storm Sandy. The latest deployments bring to more than 50 the number of emergency medical...

Having been spared the worst of Hurricane Sandy, ambulance and state highway crews from Washington County have been deployed to harder hit areas, including the New Jersey shore and snowbound Garrett County in Maryland. Two ambulance strike teams...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, after violent storms that took at least a dozen lives and knocked out power to more than 3 million customers. Emergencies were...

Police are scouring the Atlantic City area for the carjackers who -- according to investigators -- shot a man to death and wounded a woman Sunday in an alley close to the Trump Taj Mahal Casino. Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel says the incident...

One of the suspects involved in a fatal carjacking at a casino parking lot in Atlantic City has been arrested, authorities announced Wednesday. According to the Atlantic County officials, cops arrested 20-year-old Phillip Byrd at his Camden home...

A manhunt is on for the person who shot five people in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse over the weekend, killing one adult and one 2-year-old boy. It happened in Douglass Township, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Young Gergory Erdmann, just 2-...

The man suspected of ruthlessly shooting five people in Pennsylvania, killing two, has reportedly been found dead by police. The manhunt for the suspect led from the scene of the crime, in rural Douglass Township, to the house of 51-year-old Mark...

A gruesome scene Thursday morning at a New Jersey motel, the bodies of a nine-month-old baby girl and her mother were discovered in a bathtub. The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the case as a murder-suicide. Egg Harbor Township...

In the past five years, since corrections officer David McGuinn was stabbed to death at the hulking House of Correction in Jessup, there have been major changes in Maryland's corrections system — new prisons built, new programs added and tighter...

Nassau County is now being called one of the most dangerous places in the country for people age 60 or older, but only if they do one thing: walk. A new study says for every 100,000 people in this age group, just about five will get struck by a car and...