New Jersey firefighters made a dramatic rescue when they pulled a man who was trapped in his car out of the Hackensack River. First responders found the man "in distress and struggling to escape" after he veered off the roadway on Tuesday night near Court Street Bridge.

Piscataway police in New Jersey responded to a home regarding a call about a man wielding a "kitchen knife." Three bodies were found in the residence.

A dog traveling from a South Carolina shelter to a planned new home in Maine escaped during a bathroom break along the New Jersey Turnpike.

The death of a whale found on the bow of a container ship at a port along the Delaware River in southern New Jersey is under investigation