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A low-pressure system will slowly move through the state. And while Tuesday night brought a steady rain against our bedroom windows, Wednesday will not have the same fate.

There is enough that’s new for visitors to Atlantic City this year to justify a high level of optimism on that score alone. It has been decades since two major casino hotels opened in the same year, and the Hard…

First responders were on the scene of a small fire at Lacey Township Middle School Tuesday before students arrived for classes, according to police.

If the Egg Harbor Township School District were to receive full state aid under the law, it would receive an additional $6.3 million in next year’s budget.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — When Deidre Downs was crowned Miss America more than a decade ago, the idea of legalized gay marriage and Miss America later marrying her same-sex partner in Alabama would have been an unimaginable future.

PLEASANTVILLE — A forum on marijuana legalization and its effect on racial and social justice will be held Wednesday night in the city at Mount Zion Baptist Church.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Pennsylvania's highest court has ordered a judge to free rapper Meek Mill on bail while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions.

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — The state announced Tuesday it has preserved 1,155 acres of forests and wetlands here in the Great Egg Harbor River watershed.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby's lawyers urged a jury Tuesday to acquit the 80-year-old comedian of sexual assault charges they said were based on "flimsy, silly, ridiculous evidence," arguing he was falsely accused by a "pathological liar" scheming for…

TORONTO (AP) — Details have begun to emerge about Alek Minassian, who was charged Tuesday with 10 counts of first-degree murder and 13 of attempted murder for driving a van into a crowded sidewalk in Toronto. Here is a look…