A student and a teacher were killed and 43 others injured when a school bus with preteens on a field trip collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey highway on Thursday, ripping the bus apart and leaving students dangling by seat belts, officials said.
A catastrophe report has found that the US re/insurance sector is on the hook for more than half of the total economic loss in April resulting from severe convective weather such as thunderstorms and tornados.
A 55-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to nine years in state prison for filing more than $1.2 million in false insurance claims related to refrigerated cargo allegedly spoiling while being transported cross country by his long-haul trucking companies based in Middlesex County.
Firefighters battled a fast-moving fire in a Burlington County apartment complex. The fire, which hit three alarms, started at the Willingboro Square Apartments shortly before 5 p.m. Monday along the 7100 block of Millennium Drive in Willingboro, New Jersey, fire officials said.
A New Jersey family woke up Saturday morning to every room in their house engulfed in flames. Multiple children were inside when an explosion rocked their house Vernon Avenue in the Port Reading section of Woodbridge around 9:30 a.m.
The National Hurricane Center is making changes to its “cone of uncertainty” based on an improving forecast record. The cone is designed to show people where the center of a storm is likely to head.
A man who damaged a Tuckerton marina and other boats has entered a guilty plea. The Ocean County Prosecutors Office announced that Bruce Roslin entered a guilty plea April 12 for the charge of second-degree conspiracy to commit theft by deception.
Nearly 207 million eggs from a farm in North Carolina are being recalled from nine U.S. states after 22 people fell ill, the federal Food and Drug Administration has said.
Johnson & Johnson and Imerys Talc America, a unit of Imerys SA, must pay $117 million in damages in a case involving a man who said he developed cancer due to his exposure to asbestos in talc-based products, a New Jersey state court jury said on Wednesday.
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) suffered its first trial loss in a lawsuit claiming its talc-based products including Johnsons Baby Powder contain cancer-causing asbestos, with a New Jersey jury on Thursday ordering J&J and another company to pay $37 million in damages.
A New Jersey woman has been accused of stealing more than $46,000 by collecting her dead mothers workers compensation dependency benefits for nearly three years.
More than 90,000 customers were without power overnight after another major noreaster the fourth in three weeks pummeled the Interstate 95 corridor with as much as 19 inches of snow on the first full day of spring.
Tens of thousands of utility workers in the Northeast raced to restore power to more than 1.5 million homes and businesses just days after a powerful and deadly noreaster caused flooding and wind damage from Virginia to Maine.
Allstate is partnering with Uber Technologies to provide the ridesharing firms drivers with commercial auto coverage. Ubers drivers in Illinois, New Jersey and Wisconsin will receive the coverage beginning March 01, a release said.