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Florence Woman, 20, ID'd As Victim In Crash: 'Thank You For Being My Daughter'
Kayla Stanton, a 20-year-old Florence resident, has been identified as the victim in a fatal crash in Burlington Township Tuesday, March 11, that also injured an infant, authorities said.
At 11:30 a.m. a minivan collided with a tractor trailer at a traffic light at County Route 541 and Cadillac Road, the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office said.
Stanton, a front-seat passenger in the minivan, was killed, authorities said. The driver of the minivan and an infant were transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.
"She was a backbone in our famil…
60K NJ Residents Without Power Following Stormy Night
Thousands of New Jersey residents remain without power following thunderstorms that swept through the region Wednesday, June 26.
As of Thursday morning, June 27, JCP&L was reporting 54,000 outages across North Jersey. The most widespread were reported in:
More than 1,800 in Ringwood; several hundred. in Wayne; Nearly 3,000 in Boonton Township; 660 in Mine Hill; 1,200 in Mount Arlington; nearly 700 in Vernon; 700 in Stockholm; 1,400 in Great Meadows; 880 in Buttzville.
PSE&G was reporting just over 5,000 residents without power, most in Bergen County (1,600 with 223 in Fort Lee, 243…
Mother, Son Killed In South Jersey Apartment Fire: Police
A mother and her son were killed in a fire at an apartment complex in Burlington Township, authorities said.
Police saw heavy smoke coming from an apartment at Northgate Village Apartments when they were called at 3 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 24, said Lt. Arthur Gittens, a Burlington Township police spokesman.
Firefighters arrived and pulled a man and a woman from the apartment as they worked to extinguish the fire.
Emergency workers attempted to revive the pair with CPR, but Sandra Stevenson, 62, and Eric Stevenson, 28, were pronounced dead at the scene, the spokesman said.
No one else w…
South Jersey Pair Charged With Illegal Handgun Possession
Two men from Burlington County were arrested and charged with illegally possessing handguns, authorities said.
Brandon T. Russell, 20, was charged with weapons offenses and receiving stolen property, according to Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw and Willingboro Township Acting Public Safety Director Captain Ian S. Bucs.
Zhamar Duncan, 21, was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, they said.
Russell was taken into custody at the residence in the first block of Haskell Lane, Willingboro, where a .40 caliber handgun, hollow point bullets and an extended ammunition …
