Union County

Two sisters, an 11-year-old friend and one adult died in a massive New Jersey fire that may have started inside a soda machine in a store where they were shopping and spread, the mayor of Elizabeth said Tuesday.

The owners of a house, considered by some as one of the creepiest in New Jersey thanks to series of spooky letters sent by an apparent anonymous stalker alleging the house is being “watched”, sold the sprawling six-bedroom property at a loss, according to a published report.

Autopsies indicate an Iowa couple and their two children died from inhaling toxic gas at a rented condo on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, but there was no sign of foul play or suicide, Mexican authorities said Saturday.

Investigators say the bodies of an Iowa couple and their two children have been found in a rented condo in Mexico.

Five southern Iowa high school students who appeared in a photo shared on social media wearing white hoods and waving a Confederate flag next to a burning cross have been kicked off the high school football team, the coach said.

A southern Iowa high school said Wednesday it had disciplined several students who appeared in a photo on social media wearing white hoods and waving a Confederate flag next to a burning cross.

A 19-year-old man who sparked an hourslong standoff after he allegedly robbed a woman in New Jersey last Friday was arrested Monday when he fell through a ceiling and into a police officer’s arms, police said.

Two fired day care workers accused of instigating scuffles among the children as part of what New Jersey prosecutors called a “Fight Club” have pleaded guilty to child abuse charges.