Camden News

Angelo J. Errichetti, 84, a former Camden mayor and state senator who was South Jersey's premier Democratic power broker in the decade leading to his 1981 bribery conviction in the Abscam scandal, has died.

A man was critically injured Friday morning in Camden when a wall within the building he was working in collapsed and fell on him.

Blink and you might miss Laurel Springs, a tiny Camden County borough of 1,900 people along the White Horse Pike.

WINSLOW TWP . - A 33-year-old township man was taken to an area hospital Thursday after being shot in a friend's apartment, authorities announced.

A Brazilian processing company, Usibra Ghana Limited, is to establish a $25 million cashew processing plant in Ghana.

According to the website, the job fair will be for multiple temporary positions for the Cirque du Soleil: Totem show that will be in Camden, New Jersey for the summer.

Authorities say an incident where an 11-year-old shot a 12-year-old boy in the face at a Camden apartment complex last week appears to have been accident.

Lt. Pasquale Giannini of the Camden County Police Department Metro Division monitors serveral computers at the new Real Time Tactical Information Center at the Camden Police Department, Tuesday, May 14, 2013.

"The mother of deceased Alice in Chains lead singer Layne Staley has sued her son's former bandmates, claiming they cut her out of royalties owed on the band's hits.

VINELAND - Police are trying to determine what caused the suspicious injuries that led to a city man's death last week, authorities said Monday.

The St. John's Jesuit Rowing team clinched two championships and one national championship bid at the 2013 Midwest Scholastic Rowing Association Championship Regatta last weekend in Zanesville, Ohio.

From Dultuh, Minnesota, Trampled By Turtles play acoustic music; folk and bluegrass with a strong singer-songwriter sensibility.

So long, Peter After 34 seasons, the multifaceted Peter Nero leads his final Philly Pops concert as the ensemble's music director, conducting a program of Broadway hits from the piano at 3 p.m. at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall, 300 S. Broad St.

Police in Camden are investigating the shooting death of a man found inside a vehicle that had smashed into a tree early Sunday morning.

CAMDEN - Three more people were hospitalized last week for overdoses on a reportedly tainted batch of heroin purchased in Camden , bringing the total number of those exposed to the drug to six, according to officials.

Among the exhibits were a microphone from a two-way 1930s radio and snapshots of "potato sacks" - wool, below-the-knee police coats - and of green police wagons from the 1950s.

In 1888, four years before he died, the aging poet Walt Whitman showed a friend an old leather shoulder bag hanging on the wall of his home in Camden, N.J. It had an adjustable strap with a decorative buckle and had seen hard use.

Police say an armed man who took hostages yesterday afternoon remains barricaded in a home in Trenton this morning as authorities work to negotiate his surrender and his captives' safe release.

Former Gov. Jim McGreevey, second from right, chats with Tom Hambrose, Mary Wiseman, and Frances Fina during Camden Vicinage Superior Court's Drug Court Awareness Day at Roosevelt Plaza Park in Camden, Friday, May 10, 2013.

MONROE TWP. - A bicyclist suffered internal injuries when he was hit by a pickup truck on the Black Horse Pike Thursday night.