Bridgeton

It has been one year since Dulce María Alavez vanished from a South Jersey park, setting off massive manhunts and striking pain in the heart of her family, but even now investigators believe the girl, then 5, is still alive.

A veteran South Jersey police officer died hours after jumping into a river in an attempt to save a woman’s life Sunday.

Nearly a month after her disappearance, and with searches thus far proving fruitless, officials have once again increased by thousands of dollars the reward for information that can lead them to a missing New Jersey 5-year-old.

As the third week of desperate searching for missing five-year-old Dulce María Alavez begins, her mother spoke about the search, suspicion and her family’s pain.

The reward for information leading to a 5-year-old New Jersey girl climbed to $35,000 Friday as a search that involved more than one hundred local and federal officers failed to turn up the missing child.

The grandmother of a 5-year-old girl now missing for the last 72 hours from a park in Bridgeton, New Jersey, pleaded for the public’s help Thursday.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a young girl who was taken while visiting a South Jersey park.

A New Jersey woman accused of killing her toddler son, then telling cops he had been kidnapped, told police she struck the boy because he wouldn’t “eat nor listen to her,” according to a criminal complaint.

A New Jersey mother is charged with killing her 23-month-old son after initially telling police that he had been abducted, prosecutors said Saturday.

A rally was held Monday night a year after a New Jersey man was shot to death by two police officers.

A local woman is outraged after she says she received a vulgar receipt when she ordered from a South Jersey pizza shop.

A 31-year-old woman was indicted Friday on murder and robbery charges in the death of a 28-year-old man found bloodied and unconscious under a mattress at a midtown hotel blocks from the Empire State Building earlier this week, according to court documents and authorities.

The man found unconscious with a head injury under a mattress at a hotel blocks from the Empire State Building earlier this week died of blunt force trauma and asphyxiation, according to the results of an autopsy released by authorities Tuesday.

A traffic stop turned deadly overnight in South Jersey.