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A high school baseball player from Garfield, N.J. died over the weekend after being hit in the chest by a pitch during practice.

A Rutgers University student apparently committed suicide after an internet broadcast showed him in a sexual encounter, New Jersey authorities said.

A 19-year-old woman shot early Saturday at an off-campus party near Seton Hall University in New Jersey has died, hospital and police officials said.

A body found near a New Jersey river may be that of a 3-month-old girl who police say was thrown off a highway bridge by her father earlier this year....

A political consultant who was one of 44 people arrested last week in New Jersey's massive political corruption scandal has been found dead in his apartment.

At least one person is dead and four missing after a fishing boat sank off the New Jersey coast, the Coast Guard said.