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

The New Jersey man facing arson charges in the Jones Road Wildfire appeared in court Friday in Ocean County ... at home when the fire jumped the Garden State Parkway on April 22, triggering ...

The teen faces charges of arson, aggravated arson and hindering apprehension in connection to his alleged role in starting ...

The second suspect -- an unidentified 17-year-old boy -- was taken into custody on Thursday and charged with arson and ...

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

So, like, there was this massive wildfire in Ocean County, right? And get this - they charged a 17-year-old for starting it!

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

The blaze initially broke out April 23. It temporarily closed the Garden State Parkway, knocked out power for some Ocean County residents and led to evacuation orders in Lacey Township which were ...

A second teen has been arrested and charged, accused of helping set fire to the wooden pallets that Ocean County, New Jersey ...

It threatened neighborhoods in Ocean County and resulted in a state ... which also caused a portion of the Garden State Parkway to shut down. As many as 25,000 people were also without power.

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