Salem County

Santa and a group of jolly firefighters had the perfect route over the weekend. As they delivered holiday cheer in a South Jersey community, they happened upon a house fire and saved the family inside — who didn’t even know their home was ablaze.

Authorities are investigating the death of a 19-year-old Marine Corps recruit during a strenuous exercise that caps a 13-week training course at South Carolina’s Parris Island.

A New Jersey mom was high on drugs in her car and left her 2-year-old daughter unattended for hours in her car seat, where the child somehow fatally hurt herself, prosecutors say.

A South Jersey crossing guard arrested at her post Wednesday morning for allegedly macing a man says she did it because she believes the man deals heroin and recently sold drugs that caused a loved one to overdose.

A 19-year-old rodeo rider from central Pennsylvania died from injuries he sustained in an accident during a performance in South Jersey Saturday night.

A car crash in South Jersey Monday night left a former Miss New Jersey in critical condition.

A would-be robber in South Jersey picked the wrong store and had the tables turned on him by an employee.

A would-be robber in South Jersey picked the wrong store and had the tables turned on him by an employee. (Courtesy Tony Fessaras)

A South Jersey nurse tried in vain to save her own daughter after a hit-and-run crash over the weekend.