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

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 ...

The only adult to be charged with arson in the massive wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey, is expected to soon be out of ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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