Authorities say Joseph Kling, 19, deliberately started the fire by soaking wooden pallets in gasoline and setting them aflame ...

The girlfriend of a 17-year-old arrested in connection with the Jones Road Wildfire allegedly admitted to a friend that her group started the blaze.

The New Jersey man charged with sparking a wildfire that ravaged parts of Ocean County attempted to deny responsibility, blaming it instead on two “Mexicans” he could not name, police ...

Joseph Kling, the New Jersey man facing arson charges in the Jones Road Wildfire, appeared in court in Ocean County.

Kling is charged with igniting flames that by Tuesday morning grew to the point that a spotter in the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower ...

The only adult to be charged with arson in the massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, has been released from jail ...

Prosecutors say that Kling picked up 10 to 20 wooden pallets from a recycling center and drove them into the woods, and used gasoline on two pallets to start the fire, and then eventually the rest of ...

Joseph Kling, 19, and his 17-year-old co-defendant both allegedly lied to cops when they were interviewed about the Ocean ...

Joseph Kling, accused of setting the Jones Road wildfire, is also facing charges stemming from a large fight in Lacey woods in January.

Joseph Kling, 19, can return to his Waretown home before trial. He and a juvenile are accused of setting a fire that has ...

A judge said the extraordinary nature of the case, involving one of the largest wildfires in the state in decades, warranted ...

A defense attorney argued that his 19-year-old client did not deliberately set the blaze that consumed 15,000 acres of ...