New Jersey

CRANFORD, New Jersey -- Two New Jersey daycare workers are accused of making the children they're charged with caring for fight each other for their own amusement.

NEW JERSEY (WITI) -- A vertically looping roller coaster is nothing new, but imagine if it was a water slide!

NEW JERSEY (WITI) -- A ninth grade student was arrested after he attacked his teacher and slammed him to the floor in a classroom -- all because of a cell phone.The incident began when a John F.

WEST MILFORD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey hiker killed by a bear in September took a series of photos of the animal with his cellphone before it mauled him to death.Police in West Milford have released five photos taken by 22-year-old Darsh Patel before he was killed by the 300-pound black bear while hiking with four friends in the Apshawa Preserve, 45 miles northwest of New York.The photos show the bear behind a fallen tree in the woods.

NEW JERSEY/WISCONSIN (WITI) -- Wisconsin was the first to do it, and now the badger state might have some company.

TEANECK, N.J. (AP) — A senior class prank gone awry has led to the arrests of at least 60 students at a northern New Jersey high school.Police say officers arrested 62 students after responding to a burglar alarm at Teaneck High School at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday.Officials say they found urine in hallways, petroleum jelly on doorknobs, desks flipped over, chairs broken, graffiti on the walls and balloons strewn throughout the building.The 38 juveniles arrested are being turned over to their parents.

(CNN) -- An electric wiring problem likely caused the fire this month that damaged a massive swath of New Jersey's boardwalk, which had been freshly rebuilt after Superstorm Sandy wrecked it last October, authorities said Tuesday.An investigation ruled out human involvement in the fire, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D.

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(CNN) -- Several of them suffered property losses in Superstorm Sandy.

(CNN) -- A woman in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, came forward as part of a group of 16 that won a piece of the $448 million jackpot from Wednesday's Powerball lottery drawing.Susan Nichel told CNN affiliate WPVI in Philadelphia on Friday that she was part of a group in the Ocean County vehicle maintenance facility in Toms River that pooled their money together to buy a ticket."I'm still up in the clouds.

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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- New Jersey prisoners incorrectly received more than $23 million in unemployment benefits, Medicaid and other public assistance, according to a state audit released Wednesday.Between July 2009 and April 2011, the state paid out the benefits to or on behalf of more than 20,000 incarcerated individuals who don't appear to be entitled to the payments, according to a press release from State Comptroller Matthew Boxer, who led the audit.More than $10 million of the payments were unemployment benefits paid out to about 7,600 incarcerated individuals, according to the release.

(CNN) -- Police burst into a home early Sunday in Trenton, New Jersey, finding a woman and her 13-year-old son dead, and three of her other children being held hostage, authorities said.The suspect, Gerald Tyrone Murphy, 38, was shot by police and died from his wounds, authorities said at a news conference Sunday.

(CNN) -- Two New Jersey men are facing charges of running a 9/11 memorial scam allegedly by collecting donations and selling memorial T-shirts from the back of a pickup truck painted with the World Trade Center towers, according to the state attorney general's office.Mark Niemczyk, 66, of Tinton Falls, and Thomas Scalgione, 41, of Manahawkin, allegedly sold T-shirts and collected donations out of their truck at 9/11 events from June 2010 until July 2012.

NEW JERSEY (WITI) -- It has been more than five months since Superstorm Sandy ripped apart homes along the Jersey Shore, and for some homeowners, the nightmare is far from over.