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The scouts then heard Petronino's calls for help. They initially tried to lure the bear out with food. When that didn't work, the scouts called for help on their cell phones, and were also able to build a signal fire to aid the rescue units.

Nothing in life is for free. Even a visit to see Santa? That's the case for kids who go to visit Santa Claus in New Jersey's Cherry Hill Mall. The mall's Adventure to Santa will reportedly cost between $35 and $50, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Vegetables for Halloween? That's what one Connecticut family is telling neighbors to hand out rather than traditional Halloween candy

Well, yeah...it's got to be fake. However, we can all have a little for Halloween, can't we? Stories of the fabled Jersey Devil go back over 200 years. People living in or passing through New Jersey's Pinelands have claimed to have seen the strange, winged creature...

A Middletown man took an excavator and knocked down the house he and his wife shared.

From NBC Connecticut Police say they issued a warrant and that 49 year old Inna Platanov was placed under arrest August 26th and charged with DWI. The arrest stems from a June 23rd crash where authorities say the Milford, CT woman was driving under the influence at almost five times the state's legal limit...

There's certainly a lot of jokes that can made here, but a 68-year-old woman, who had just performed a clown show at a nearby elementary school lost control of her Toyota Sedan and crashed into a utility pole, according to North Jersey...

Talk about scary. Apparently there's a very big snake slithering in the waters of Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey's biggest lake. Initial reports were saying that it was a boa constrictor, however a New Jersey reptile expert is saying it is, in fact, at a 16 foot long green anaconda...

Service on the Metro-North has been restored after being temporarily through Fairfield, CT. Reports of suspicious package on the Unquowa Road overpass had halted Metro-North service, as police and bomb squads investigated the area. Metro-North spokesman Aaron Donovan said the suspension began in both directions on the New Haven Line at about 6:15 am and resumed at 8:30 Friday morning...

A Connecticut woman has been arrested after video surfaced on YouTube of her attacking a teenager near Hammonasset Beach State Park. According to police, she was charged with third degree assault and second degree breach of peace. The question now is, why did she assault him in the first place...