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

A Waretown man accused of starting a wildfire that destroyed 15,300 acres in southern Ocean County was released from jail on ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Crews are crediting the half-inch of rain that fell over the southern region of the fire over the weekend. More passing rain on Monday may also help containment efforts, officials added.

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

Joseph Kling, one of the teenagers charged with setting a massive wildfire in Ocean County, is being released from jail with ...

The crash of a dirt bike in the Forked River Mountains Wilderness Area helped investigators unravel details of where, and how ...

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