Atlantic County

Governor Christie has indicated he is willing to sign an internet gaming bill into law, if several changes are made to the legislation.

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He thought he was meeting a 14-year-old for sex last October. Instead, Michael Schiavo met detectives from the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office and Hamilton Police Department. Now, he'll spend up to five years in prison for it.

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The probe of a badly-injured three-month-old boy leads to the arrest of an Atlantic City 26-year-old responsible for him.

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Two Pleasantville teens become the second and third people to die by gunfire within two days in the town. No one is in custody in connection with the incident that erupted late Wednesday.

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The Egg Harbor Township 33-year-old convicted of driving off after hitting a 16-year-old from the township with his car is sentenced to seven and a half years in prison.

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A shooting victim's bullet-strafed body found behind a Pleasantville bar Monday night triggers a search for suspects by Atlantic County investigators.

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Atlantic County has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm Sandy continues to churn toward New Jersey.

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A Fair Haven doctor who confessed to a role in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone illegally awaits a January sentencing. She could be given as much as 20 years in prison and fined up to $1,000,000.

Jacqueline Lopresti, 52, admitted in a Trenton federal courtroom today that she wrote illegal prescriptions for drugs containing oxycodone, such as Oxtycontin, Percocet and Roxidcodone, that were filled at pharmacies in Ocean, Monmouth and Atlantic Counties in 2009

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A Florham Park accountant who admitted arranging trysts through the Internet with 13- and 14-year-old girls who were actually Atlantic County investigators heads to a New Jersey state prison for five years

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Two Atlantic County men arrested last May in connection with a shooting death on an Atlantic City street face the prospect of trial, charged with multiple murder counts.

Michael Rivera, 22, of Pleasantville, and Casey Robinson, 20, of Atlantic City, were indicted by a grand jury in Mays Landing Wednesday for the death of Joshua Hopewell, whose bullet-riddled body was found near Rhode Island Avenue just before dawn broke on May 10

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