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Two men have been arrested on charges they set a 27-year-old friend on fire while he was asleep on a couch in what police described as a “prank that went terribly, terribly wrong." Brandon Perez, 23, of Hammonton, and David Sult, 24, of Mays Landing, face charges of aggravated arson, aggravated assault and conspiracy, police in Hamilton, Atlantic County said Wednesday. The Brigantine man was sleeping at Sult’s home on the 2900 block of Cologne Avenue in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton on March 15 when Sult and Perez intentionally lit him on fire, police said. Family members took...

One person is dead and another is injured following a shooting outside Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing on Black Friday, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office confirmed in a press release. Officers responded to the scene, a parking lot outside a Macy's department store, at 1:05 a.m. for a report of a shooting. When officials arrived they found a 20-year-old Atlantic City man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:23 a.m. by paramedics. An autopsy is pending. One dead, one injured in shooting outside Hamilton Mall Also found at the scene was the victim's...

MAYS LANDING, N.J. - Marc Snyder can't get his mind off the high cost of his prescription drugs. Thanks to a growing display outside his home, his neighbors are thinking about it, too. Photocopies of prescriptions cover upstairs windows, surround the door and fill blue plastic tarps draped over the yellow house. Snyder said they are prescriptions he could not afford to fill. A large sign declares the week-old display "The Great Wall of Prescriptions" and asks Congress for help. "It's not an eyesore," said Adrienne Reyes, who lives across the street. "It's a good way to advertise." Most of...