A New Jersey police officer currently under investigation for fatally shooting a man who had his hands raised also blackmailed a woman into having rough, unprotected sex with him, the woman claims in a new civil suit.

A New Jersey police dive team recovered a pickup truck that sunk into the Toms River early Sunday morning after the vehicle was spotted driving donuts on the ice. The driver and passenger later turned themselves into police; both were unharmed. Their dog was not so lucky: Police found its frozen body in the submerged truck.

Damn. Look at this. Yesterday a Stafford Township, New Jersey house filled with gas from a broken main, and then exploded. God damn. Look at this mother blow. It's a freaking big explosion, from gas.

A tanker truck carrying around 8,000 gallons of gasoline overturned and exploded on a highway in Pennsauken, N.J. Monday morning, CBS Philly reports. The driver escaped with minor injuries.

In an effort to avoid paying his traffic tickets that worked for a lot longer than it probably should have, Olawale Agoro of Hackensack, New Jersey appeared in court several times while posing as his made-up twin brother "Tony," the Bergen Record reports. Also, he pretended to be blind.

Dashboard camera video obtained but the South Jersey Times shows two New Jersey police officers shooting and killing a black suspect exiting a car with his hands apparently raised. Prior to the shooting, one officer is seen removing what appears to be a handgun from the vehicle.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —what the man recording this video of a truck taking a tumble on the New Jersey Turnpike and nearly killing him manages not to shout.

You might accept Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior, but do you take him serious? If not, you should probably watch out for Pastor Eric Dammann, who admits to straight-up socking a kid as hard as he could for "playing games with God."

A New Jersey man was arrested this weekend after he made a false emergency call and asked responding officers for a ride to the convenience store, the Burlington County Times reports.

Prosecutors say a New Jersey cop was too busy showing off his dick to arrest drunk drivers.

Police arrested a New Jersey man this week for allegedly hitting a 61-year-old pedestrian with his car and driving 1.5 miles with the victim "halfway through the vehicle's windshield."

On Halloween, Karen Haigh—a woman—was driving in Fort Lee, N.J., when she saw a huge duck crossing the road. The duck—a huge duck—stood at six feet four inches. The huge duck scared her.

There are two narratives about Camden, New Jersey that media outlets like to rely on. One is of a city so dangerous and poor that its salvation is near-hopeless. That narrative can be seen in Matt Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article “Apocalypse, New Jersey,” in The Nation’s “City of Ruins” and in NBC’s “America’s ‘Invincible’ City Brought to Its Knees.”

This dashcam video of a nighttime encounter with a fake roadblock on Interstate 78 near the New Jersey Turnpike is easily the pants-shittingest thing in real life horror on the internet today, but what the hell is actually going on here?

Joe Lentini ordered a bottle of Screaming Eagle Oakville 2011 for the table during a business dinner last week at Bobby Flay's Steak in Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel. He was allegedly informed by their waitress that the bottle cost "thirty-seven fifty." The bill, however, contended otherwise, listing the bottle at its actual price: $3,750.

In a freak accident that does nothing to calm your fears of objects falling from the sky and killing you, a construction worker in Jersey City died this morning after a one-pound tape measure fell 50 stories and hit him in the head.

In a press conference yesterday, moist ham and governor of New Jersey Chris Christie waved aside concerns about the treatment of a nurse, Kaci Hicox, who his government involuntarily quarantined despite her not having Ebola, by saying that she had "access to the internet, and takeout food from the best restaurants in Newark." But did she really?

Chris Christie, an antagonistic noisemaker who happens to be in charge of governing the state of New Jersey, was in Rhode Island on Tuesday, campaigning for the Republican candidate for governor there. Reporters asked him what he thought about potentially getting sued by Kaci Hickox, a nurse Christie forced into mandatory quarantine this week under his Ebola policy.

Kaci Hickox, the nurse who returned from Sierra Leone on Friday only to be forced into "inhumane" quarantine in Newark, is now being permitted by New Jersey governor Chris Christie to self-quarantine at her home in Maine. Hickox tested negative for Ebola on Friday.

A woman who arrived at Newark International Airport from West Africa has tested negative for Ebola, New Jersey state health officials say. She is currently in isolation at the University Hospital in Newark.