Atlantic County

Hammonton First candidates announce run for Town Council

2013-05-20 05:04:02

Three former elected officials endorsed by the independent Hammonton First party are jumping back into the political fray, challenging three incumbent council members from the Hammonton Republican Party. Tom Gribbin, Ed Marinelli and Ed Wuillermin...

Working to help heart attack victims survive

2013-05-20 05:04:02

When someone is having a heart attack, seconds matter in getting them treatment. Having an automatic external defibrillator, or AED, on site can save someone's life. For more than a decade, the Heart Heroes at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center has...

More Md. emergency workers head north to help with Sandy recovery

2012-11-03 15:33:00

Maryland and Baltimore are sending nearly 30 more employees, including 25 state troopers, to New Jersey and New York to assist in recovery efforts following Storm Sandy. The latest deployments bring to more than 50 the number of emergency medical...

Washington County ambulance and highway crews help harder hit storm areas

2012-11-02 14:41:00

Having been spared the worst of Hurricane Sandy, ambulance and state highway crews from Washington County have been deployed to harder hit areas, including the New Jersey shore and snowbound Garrett County in Maryland. Two ambulance strike teams...

Eastern U.S. Battles Heat Wave Amid Power Outages

2012-07-01 11:55:00

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Blistering heat blanketed much of the eastern United States for the third straight day on Sunday, after violent storms that took at least a dozen lives and knocked out power to more than 3 million customers. Emergencies were...

Atlantic City Carjacking Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured

2011-09-18 19:00:00

Police are scouring the Atlantic City area for the carjackers who -- according to investigators -- shot a man to death and wounded a woman Sunday in an alley close to the Trump Taj Mahal Casino. Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel says the incident...

Suspect In Fatal AC Carjacking Arrested

2011-09-21 12:11:00

One of the suspects involved in a fatal carjacking at a casino parking lot in Atlantic City has been arrested, authorities announced Wednesday. According to the Atlantic County officials, cops arrested 20-year-old Phillip Byrd at his Camden home...

NY Family Of 5 Shot; 2 Killed, Including Toddler, In Pennsylvania

2011-07-04 04:46:00

A manhunt is on for the person who shot five people in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse over the weekend, killing one adult and one 2-year-old boy. It happened in Douglass Township, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia. Young Gergory Erdmann, just 2-...

Pennsylvania Slayings May Have Been Linked To Insurance Scam

2011-07-04 19:49:00

The man suspected of ruthlessly shooting five people in Pennsylvania, killing two, has reportedly been found dead by police. The manhunt for the suspect led from the scene of the crime, in rural Douglass Township, to the house of 51-year-old Mark...

Cumberland County Woman and Infant Child Found Dead in New Jersey Motel

2011-07-21 20:16:00

A gruesome scene Thursday morning at a New Jersey motel, the bodies of a nine-month-old baby girl and her mother were discovered in a bathtub. The Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the case as a murder-suicide. Egg Harbor Township...

New death penalty law, appeals delay trials in killing of correctional officer

2011-07-25 07:46:56

In the past five years, since corrections officer David McGuinn was stabbed to death at the hulking House of Correction in Jessup, there have been major changes in Maryland's corrections system — new prisons built, new programs added and tighter...

Search Continues For Missing Baby In NJ River

2010-02-18 09:15:00

The desperate search continued Thursday for an infant who was abducted and then thrown into a New Jersey river by her own father, police said. The search is centered around the Garden State Parkway's Driscoll Bridge, which spans the Raritan River...

With players flocking to slots palaces in nearby areas such as Atlantic City, N.J., many slots advocates polled said Maryland is losing too much money by not offering expanded gambling.

2004-11-11 00:00:00

The Rev. Al Sharpton speaks at the Second Baptist Church in Atlantic City, N.J., March 21. Sharpton will surrender himself to the Atlantic County Jail on March 22, and begin a 10-day sentence for obstructing traffic during a July 3, 1999 protest in Atlantic City.

2000-03-22 10:55:00