Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver who heads the New Jersey Initial Response Team based in Sussex County suddenly became ill with stomach bleeding during an expedition.
Kenneth Lutz, of Phillipsburg, faced aggravated sexual assault and sexual assault by contact charges, stemming from reported abuse more than 20 years ago.
James Allandale was wanted after a shooting in Elmwood Park on Dec. 27. Police exchanged fire with a man in a Pine Brook motel on Dec. 31, while trying to arrest him for attempted murder.
A deer ran into a car in Gloucester County, went through the front windshield and exited out the back killing the driver while a Jeep that veered into the opposite lane after hitting a deer slammed into an oncoming car.