One man is dead and more than a dozen others are injured, including eight children, after they were struck by lightning in New Jersey. ABC News' Morgan Norwood reports on the severe weather.

A river beach along the Jersey Shore in Ocean County has been closed to swimming as of Wednesday due to elevated bacterial levels. The Wildwood Avenue beach in Ocean Gate was initially listed under a water quality advisory on Tuesday and the closure resulted from a second consecutive day of high bacteria levels.

“Shedeur Sanders had his jersey number retired at Colorado this year, and people are saying it’s because of nepotism, because of his father, and it’s not” Gillis said. “It’s because he went 13-12 over his career, and he almost won the Alamo Bowl. Definitely not nepotism, right?”

Police say 60-year-old Lubia Estevez, a food services cashier at Plainfield High School, was one of two people killed during Monday's intense storms.

A lottery player who purchased a Jersey Cash 5 ticket at a convenience store in Middlesex County won Tuesday’s $160,000 jackpot. The winning ticket was sold at South River Convenience Store on Jackson Street in South River, lottery officials said.

Thermo Fisher said on Wednesday it will buy Sanofi's manufacturing site in Ridgefield, New Jersey, to produce critical medicines for the French drugmaker. WHY IT'S IMPORTANT Sanofi has been expanding its manufacturing presence in the U.

New Jersey has set a timeline for its first cannabis consumption lounges. Atlantic City and Merchantville locations are expected to open by the end of July. Here’s what to know.

A small South Jersey chicken restaurant is quickly becoming the go-to place, with several new stores opening across the state and boosting the local economy at the same time.