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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The New Jersey man facing arson charges in the Jones Road Wildfire appeared in court Friday in Ocean County. Joseph Kling ...

Joseph Kling, accused of setting the Jones Road wildfire, is also facing charges stemming from a large fight in Lacey woods in January.

Joseph Kling, 19, and his 17-year-old co-defendant both allegedly lied to cops when they were interviewed about the Ocean ...

Officials said the fire is believed to be the second-worst in the last two decades, smaller only than a 2007 blaze that burned 26 square miles.