A South Jersey police department has saved its 20th life since officers began deploying Naloxone to reverse heroin overdoses a little more than a year ago.

Pine Hill police Officer William Heron came across a vehicle parked in the lot of what used to be the Saint Edwards School on the corner of Erial Road and West 5th Avenue. Heron found a man suffering a seizure in the driver's seat and rushed in to provide aid, after requesting assistance, said police.

Officer Justin Digiacomo and other emergency responders arrived on scene shortly after and administered Naloxone, aka Narcan, successfully reversing the overdose. This marked Digiacomo's 12th successful reversal in 13 attempts.

The man -- who police didn't identify -- regained consciousness at the scene and was transported by local EMS for further evaluation.

Gov. Chris Christie announced the Narcan pilot program in May 2014. Since then, Pine Hill police have administered the antidote 23 times, saving 20 lives in the process.

Still, officers are looking for ways to beef up the fight against what they call an "epidemic." In the same time period, police say there have been five suspected overdose deaths, two of which have occurred over the last month.

The Borough has taken several other steps to prevent overdose deaths such as continuing to publicize New Jersey's "Good Samaritan" law, posting drug collection drop boxes and hosting free community Narcan training events.

New Jersey's heroin overdose death rate has been a hot topic issue for the state over the last few years. NJ.com reports the overdose death rate is triple the nationwide rate.

A 20-year-old New Jersey man has been charged on terror-related counts for allegedly trying to help organize a "small army" of ISIS fighters in New York and the Garden State and for traveling overseas with the intent to join the terror group, federal prosecutors said Monday.

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Nader Saadeh, who lived in Rutherford until he left the country May 5, allegedly to join ISIS, was arrested Monday on charges of conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the terrorist organization, federal officials said. He was previously taken into custody in Jordan.

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Saadeh's brother, Alaa, along with at least three others in New York and New Jersey, were arrested in recent months in connection with the alleged ISIS cell.

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The FBI said Nader Saadeh posted anti-American messages online beginning in 2012 and repeatedly viewed ISIS videos. The agency said he praised the burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot by ISIS fighters and said that, as well as the murders of several staff members of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris earlier this year were justified.

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Investigators said Saadeh began rallying friends to join the terror group in the last two years. An informant helped the FBI in the investigation.

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According to the informant, Saadeh had become a radicalized ISIS supporter by April and planned to travel overseas to join them. He flew out of John F. Kennedy International Airport on May 5, allegedly for that purpose. Emails sent to him from his family members overseas, including his mother, pleaded with him not to join ISIS, according to federal officials.

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Saadeh's brother, who was arrested in late June, told authorities an alleged conspirator from Queens gave Saadeh an ISIS contact near the Turkey/Syria border who could facilitate his travel once overseas, federal officials said.

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Officials said there was no specific plot, although some suspects arrested earlier this year were allegedly scouting New York City landmarks as possible targets, including the George Washington Bridge.

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Saadeh was ordered to be held without bail during a hearing in federal court in Newark Monday afternoon. Each of the charges carries up to 20 years in prison. 

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An attorney for the man declined to comment to NBC 4 New York, saying he needed to meet with his client. 

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"Jackass" star Steve-O was arrested Sunday night after drawing emergency responders to a Hollywood construction site where he climbed a crane towering at least 100 feet above ground in a protest against Seaworld, police said.

Officers who initially responded to the site were unsure whether the stunt performer needed to be rescued from the crane on Selma Avenue at Gower Street, but firefighters were preparing a cushion in case of a fall, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

A heavy rescue crew, several fire trucks and ambulances were sent to the scene about 8 p.m.

The stunt performer, whose real name is Stephen Glover, was streaming video of himself on Facebook climbing the crane.

Police said Glover inflated a large killer whale balloon with a message about SeaWorld, and at one point set off fireworks from the tip of the crane.

On Saturday, Glover posted a photo of himself holding an inflatable whale on his official Instagram account and announced that he would be performing a "big dangerous stunt."

Last year, he was slapped with a $239 fine after changing a 5 Freeway sign in San Diego to read "SeaWorld Sucks." Glover said his protest was in response to controversy over the 2013 documentary "Blackfish," which criticized SeaWorld's treatment of killer whales.

During the incident Sunday, he wrote in a Facebook post, "Anyone wanna bail me out of jail?"

Glover climbed down just before 9 p.m. and was taken into custody, police said.

As of 9:45 p.m. he had not been booked, but police said he could face several charges including conspiracy to commit a crime, trespassing, setting off explosives - the fireworks - within city limits without a permit and filming for personal gain without a permit.

"Some of the resources on this hoax could have been devoted to a real emergency," Fire Department spokeswoman Margaret Stewart told The Associated Press.

Glover's representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. A call to SeaWorld has not been returned.

Glover was held at the LAPD's Hollywood Division station before his release early Monday. A court date was scheduled for Aug. 31, according to jail records.

Police on Monday announced a woman was charged in in connection with the deadly stabbing of a man whose body was found in his sister's South Philadelphia backyard.

34-year-old Dionia James was arrested for the murder of 30-year-old Quinton Graham.

Graham's body was discovered early Saturday morning by Graham's sister in her backyard, on Oakford Street near 27th in the Grays Ferry section.

When police arrived, they discovered Graham was dead of several stab wounds.

Police on Sunday morning said they were questioning three women in connection with the stabbing and trying to determine whether it was related to a domestic dispute.

James, who police said had a previous relationship with Graham, now faces murder and related charges in the stabbing.

A 12-year-old boy is recovering but still alive after sand caved in on him at an Ocean County beach.

The boy was on the 17th Street Beach in Surf City, New Jersey around 1:45 p.m. Police told NBC10 the child was digging a hole with other children when the sand suddenly collapsed on top of him.

"I guess he must have dug really deep and got in there and the children had trouble getting him out," said Lou Varone, a witness. 

Lifeguards and bystanders rushed over and pulled the boy out of the sand.

"I looked over and all of a sudden these parents were standing over," said Eliza Pluckhorn, another witness. "I couldn't see what was happening and I walked over and I saw a little boy and his eyes were closed. His face was covered in sand and I didn't know what was happening."

One of the lifeguards performed CPR on the boy and he started breathing again, according to police.

The child was taken by medical helicopter to Cooper University Hospital where he is currently in stable condition. 

It's illegal to dig a hole more than a foot deep at the 17th Street Beach. Officials say Monday's incident should serve as a reminder to beachgoers that sand is unstable and potentially dangerous. 

"Our beach badge checkers and our special police office on the beach are constantly telling people not to dig too deep," said Surf City Councilman and spokesman Pete Hartney. "People don't heed the warnings." 

Police in Wilmington were investigating a triple shooting in broad daylight Monday afternoon that leaft a woman dead.

A 5-year-old girl and another woman were also injured in the shooting.

It happened near the intersection of North Washington and 7th Streets around 2:30, police said.

Witnesses reported hearing multple gunshots in the area.

The woman and child were listed in stable condition at local hospitals.

No arrests had been made as police looked for a motive in the shooting.

A jaywalking man stopped by police in South Jersey was hiding more than 60 bags of heroin in his pockets, according to police.

Gloucester Township officers stopped Joshua Mazzeo after observing him jaywalking across Erial-Clementon Road last Tuesday. 

During the pedestrian stop in Erial, officers uncovered 64 baggies of heroin concealed inside the 37-year-old’s pants.

Mazzeo was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance and was held at the Camden County Correctional Facility on $150,000 bail.

Two of the seven players arrested in a hazing scandal at a New Jersey high school that prompted the district to cancel its football season and suspend the team's coaching staff have been cleared of the most serious charges they were facing, their lawyers said. 

The former Sayreveille players were tried as juveniles in family court and found not guilty Friday on the charges of conspiracy to commit aggravated sexual contact, aggravated sexual contact and aggravated assault, according to Richard P. Klein, a lawyer representing one of the teens. 

Klein said his client was found guilty of less serious charges: disorderly persons and petty disorderly persons offenses. 

"The family is glad that the outcome of the charges have been resolved," Klein told NBC 4 New York Monday. 

Kevin Flood, the attorney for the other teen cleared of the charges, declined to comment on the details of the case but said they were "satisfied and extremely happy with the ultimate disposition of the case." 

The two verdicts settle all but one of the seven cases; the others also have been settled primarily with community service or disorderly persons charges. 

The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said it is reserving comment until the last of the seven cases is resolved, and added it was "greatly disappointed with the inappropriate and misleading comments by Mr. Klein," though it didn't detail how Klein's comments were misleading. 

The office said it will issue a detailed press release on the resolution of the charges in the Sayreville hazing case "at the appropriate time." 

Sayrveille residents supported the verdicts. 

"I believe everybody should get a second chance," said George Zulin.

"You want to people to be held responsible for what they do; at the same time, you don't want to ruin a person's life," said John Sglamabro. 

The players, all of whom were 17 or younger when they were arrested, faced charges ranging from hazing and conspiracy to sexual contact in connection with the months-long investigation at Sayreville War Memorial High School. Three of the players were originally charged with aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree crime that carries a penalty of up to 20 years in state prison.

A juvenile court judge would have had far more discretion in sentencing the players, if found guilty, than a criminal court judge would. By law, court complaints against juveniles are not public records and cannot be released. Hearings in family court are closed to the public. 

"The conduct in which the juvenile defendants engaged was serious and that is why criminal charges were filed," Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey said last November in announcing his office's decision to try the suspects as juveniles. "Asking the court to waive these seven juvenile cases to adult court would not best serve the interests of the victims, the community or the defendants."

Prosecutors had previously said the alleged hazing, which they said could have been considered sexual assaults, was "pervasive" at the school. Sayreville boasted one of the top-ranked football teams in the state before its season was cut short amid the allegations in October.

The seven students who were arrested were also suspended from school. The team's coaching staff was suspended as well. Five of the suspended coaches, including head coach George Najjar, were tenured teachers, NJ.com reported. Several others were substitutes. 

Football season will resume at Sayreville High School this school year with new head coach Christopher Beagan. Najjar was demoted in March to teaching physical education classes at an elementary school after serving two decades as head coahc. 

Shortly after the coaching staff was suspended with pay, the New York Times reported details of the alleged locker room abuse from players who either saw the alleged attacks or said they were victims of it.

The witnesses, who weren’t identified by name, described a boisterous locker room environment that took a dark turn over a 10-day period in September, when all four alleged hazing cases occurred.

The freshmen who spoke to the Times said that during the attacks, older players would come into the locker room shouting “hootie hoo” before flicking the lights on and off and tripping one of the them over. In one case, two older players held a boy down by his arms while players punched, kicked and groped him, according to the report.

The three victims who spoke to the Times varied slightly on their accounts of the hazing. All three said they were wearing football pants, and accounts of the gropings ranged from poking or grabbing of the buttocks to penetration. Of the three victims, two said the hazing wasn't a big deal -- and that what happened was part of team bonding.

Several other freshmen who witnessed the attacks told the Times they rushed to change after practice or avoided showering to make it out of the locker room before the varsity team finished practice.

Some said they became the targets of backlash on social media and in school from other students upset that the football season was canceled. One player told the Times the backlash "made me want to shoot myself."

The case has put a spotlight on the town, known for its successful football program and for being the hometown of singer Jon Bon Jovi, and the way that school districts handle hazing and bullying allegations.

Late last October, Eldred Central School District in upstate New York canceled its varsity football team's season finale because of alleged hazing by players. Before that, Long Island's Wyandanch High School suspended five players amid a hazing probe. Its season continued, but was later canceled because a fire destroyed the team's practice gear.

Police are searching for two men and a woman who were caught on camera attacking and stabbing a driver during a road rage incident in Ocean County, New Jersey.

The victim, a 39-year-old man from Toms River, told police he was driving with his family on Route 88 and Jack Martin Boulevard in Point Pleasant towards Brick Township on August 5.

As he was driving another man in a dark-colored Acura with tinted windows and a New York registration began yelling at him and his family while driving aggressively, according to investigators. The victim told police this continued until both vehicles reached the intersection of Route 88 and Barb Lane.

The driver of the Acura then got out of his vehicle and approached the victim’s car, police said. The victim also got out of his car and the two men began fighting on the side of the road. During the fight, another man and a woman then got out of the Acura and began attacking the victim as well, police said. One of the three suspects also stabbed the victim with a small knife during the brawl, according to investigators.

A witness recorded the end of the fight as the suspects punched the man, threw him to the ground and then ran away. The three suspects then went back into the Acura and left the area on Jack Martin Boulevard towards Route 70, according to investigators.

The victim was taken to the Ocean Medical Center where he was treated for lacerations to his head and elbow and later released.

Police continue to investigate the incident. If you have any information on the suspects, please call Detective Timothy McCarthy in the Brick Township Police Detective Bureau at 732-262-1169.  You can also contact the Brick Township Police directly at 732-262-1100.

Police released surveillance video of two men accused of slashing the tires of over two dozen vehicles in the Queen Village section of Philadelphia last month.

On July 26 at 1:40 a.m. the two unidentified men vandalized 30 vehicles on the 100 block and 300 block of Queen Street as well as the 800 block of South Swanson and South 3rd streets. 

The first suspect is described as a thin man with a beard and tattoos on his chest, arms and back. In the surveillance video he is wearing a knit hat, long pants and is armed with a knife.

The second suspect is described as a thin man with short hair wearing a short sleeve shirt and camouflage pants. 

If you have any information on their identities, please call Philadelphia Police. 

A woman is in the hospital and a man is in custody after a shooting in Coatesville.

The 27-year-old woman was near 45 Pennsylvania Avenue Monday evening when a gunman opened fire. 

The woman was struck in the abdomen and taken to Paoli Hospital. Officials have not yet revealed her condition. 

A 27-year-old man was arrested in connection to the shooting. Police have not yet released his identity or the specific charges against him. 

Police are searching for a man who was caught on video kicking in a door and attacking an employee at a gas station convenience store in West Philadelphia. 

On Aug. 5 around 3:25 a.m., the unidentified suspect ran straight at a locked door inside the Sunoco Gas Station store on the 1700 block of North 33rd Street and kicked it open. Once inside, the suspect attacked the 52-year-old employee, punching him in his head and face.

The employee managed to call 911 despite the scuffle and when he did, the suspect stopped striking him and fled on foot. He was last seen running north on 33rd Street. 

Police say he didn't take anything during the incident. 

The suspect, who has not been caught, first appears on surveillance video provided by Philadelphia Police entering the store to scout the location 90 minutes before the robbery. Later that morning, he entered the store again, this time wearing a hooded sweatshirt. 

The suspect is described as a 20-year-old man standing 6-feet with a scar or bald spot on his head. He was last seen wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, dark-colored jeans and gray shoes. 

If you have any information on his identity, please call Philadelphia Police. 

Demonstrators gathered in North Philadelphia Monday night to commemorate the one year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown.

The protesters gathered at 6 p.m. on Broad Street and Erie Avenue and began marching down Broad Street. Protesters held up signs as well as a 125-foot-long scroll of women killed by police. Organizers say the purpose of the demonstration was not only to remember Brown but also to protest “police terror” and “court injustice,” while bringing attention to other men and women killed by police officers. 

“We’re just coming together to stand in solidarity with the Ferguson action and to also just let the public know that we are here,” said Erica Mines of the Philadelphia Coalition for Road Justice. “Let the public officials know that we are here and that this movement is not something in Philadelphia that is going away anytime soon.” 

The protest is one of many across the nation to commemorate the one year anniversary of Brown’s death. On August 9, 2014, Brown, 18, was shot and killed by former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. While Brown was unarmed, Wilson insisted he shot in him and self-defense and that the teen, who was a suspect in a theft at a nearby convenience store, charged at him before he opened fire. 

Brown’s death sparked a debate over police brutality and the use of force. It also spurred the national “Black Lives Matter” movement. The U.S. Justice Department and a St. Louis County grand jury cleared Wilson, who resigned in November, of wrongdoing. A separate Justice Department investigation of Ferguson's justice system found evidence of a profit-driven court system and widespread racial bias by police.

When Phillip Gzella was born three months premature, he was tiny enough at one pound 6 ounces to fit into the palm of his father’s hand. As Marian Gzella struggled with the precarious news often delivered to parents of preemies, doctors then warned his wife Danuta may not make it through the night. She was septic. A man of great faith, Marian prayed.

Both survived.

To show his gratefulness, year after year Marian volunteers his time and expertise as the self-professed “Coffee Boss," making enough coffee and hot tea to fill the cups of up to 3,000 pilgrims — ten times over the four-day walk. Each August, pilgrims trek 57.5 miles from his parish of Saints Peter & Paul in Great Meadows, New Jersey to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.

Danuta helps prepare meals. Their son Phillip volunteers as safety coordinator. The couple’s two daughters come with their kids to carry on the tradition.

“It’s a time to have time for family,” said Danuta, who walks each year with intentions. This year she’s praying that Phillip, now out of college, can find a good job.

Jan Prusak is the "Walking Boss." He's in charge of all the logistics, which includes the transportation of enough luggage to fill the trailers of two 18-wheelers, enough porta potties for multiple stops and campsites. Then there's the task of making and delivering meals and beverages.

Prusak, the Gzellas and many other volunteers who work behind the scenes with little sleep the week of the walk, moved from Poland to the United States in the 1980s and 90s and gravitated to this Warren County community where the church in Great Meadows was becoming the center of the growing immigrant community.

“We grew up with pilgrimages in Poland,” Prusak said, explaining how the walk to Czestochowa in his homeland is a centuries-old tradition. "The tradition in Poland survived communist time because after World War II there was tremendous pressure on the Church. Pilgrimages have lasted from the 15th century all the way til now. At the time, for me when I was growing up, it was a form of fighting communist regime, showing your faith, showing your power against their will."

Volunteers numbered about 150 this year and after 28 years, span three generations.

"All these people came. Young girls and everybody's helping us. It's so wonderful," said Maria Kaczmarski on the eve of the walk. She was making sure they had the 1,300 sandwiches needed for the next day.

"You just do it for other people," Kaczmarski said. "I usually do it for someone who has drifted away from the church and for me, I grow spiritually."

Officials are tracking a hammerhead shark that has been spotted along several Jersey Shore beaches over the past few days. 

“Elias,” the 100-pound hammerhead, surfaced less than three miles from the shore off Belmar, New Jersey Sunday morning. The 7-foot male shark has been swimming in the waters between Lavallette, New Jersey and the Highlands for the past week. Elias is tagged and is being tracked by OCEARCH for research.

Since he was tagged on July 19 off Montauk, New York, Elias has traveled 431 miles, according to the Asbury Park Press. 

OCEARCH is the same group of researchers that tracked Mary Lee, the Great White Shark. Mary Lee was spotted off the coast of the Jersey Shore in May and was also spotted in the water near New York.

You can follow Elias’ and Mary Lee’s journeys on their official twitter pages.