TOMS RIVER, NJ – The Toms River Regional School District is offering $29 per hour to school bus drivers as it attempts to properly staff its fleet of school buses …
NJ News Commons
NJ News Commons
Shore News Network was a member of the NJ News Commons since its inception, but we recently removed ourselves from the Commons because let's face it, they treat SNN like trash and we got tired of listening to their whining. This column is an archive of NJ News Commons and Icopyright stories published during our membership period and we're going to keep this archive because we know it irks the "media" folks working over at the commons that it's still here.
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GLEN BURNIE, MD – A container ship owned by Evergreen, the Taiwanese-based cargo shipping corporation headed from Baltimore to Norfolk, ran aground on March 13th. It has been stuck there …
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JACKSON, NJ – Nearly twenty years to the date, Ashley Ventura, the daughter of a Jackson Township police officer killed in the line of duty in March of 2021 has …
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An Ocean County chiropractor faces up to 15 years in prison after admitting he over-billed insurance companies, laundered the cash and later collected disability while still working, authorities said. Carlo …
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A Jersey Shore contractor accused of taking nearly a quarter-million dollars from 12 clients to perform work he never even started was arrested last week after more than a week …
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Marc Marinoff. photo via facebook Marc S. Marinoff, 31, of Pear Drive, in Marlboro, formerly a teacher at the Joseph R. Bolger Middle School in Keansburg, pleaded guilty to one …
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The Senate State Government, Waging, Tourism, and Historic Preservation Committee has approved legislation sponsored by Senator Christopher “Kip” Bateman (R-16) to designate the bog turtle as New Jersey’s Official State …
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A five-hour state Assembly hearing with dozens of experts for and against the legalization of marijuana resulted in little consensus Monday, with advocates pointing to social justice, state revenues for …
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A state Senate panel Monday backed legislation that requires New Jerseyans to buy insurance or pay a fee — a mandate the Trump administration will end in 2019. The move …
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State lawmakers will hold a a marathon public hearing Wednesday to debate seven bills that would further tighten New Jersey’s gun laws on the heels of mass shootings across the …
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Patients from the Bayshore Medical Center in Holmdel were transferred to another facility early Sunday morning after a toaster in the building’s break room caught on fire, a hospital spokesperson …
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State lawmakers on Monday announced legislation that would return voting rights to nearly 100,000 people locked up in prison or serving parole or probation. If passed, it would make New …
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The council is scheduled for a public hearing at its 6 p.m. meeting Tuesday at Town Hall, which could be followed by a vote on second reading of an ordinance …
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After One Year, NJ Evaluates Judicial Reform Program The state performed well for its first year of criminal justice reform, according to the New Jersey judiciary, but key data is …
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The New Jersey manufacturing industry cannot find enough skilled labor to fill jobs – which is ironic since the state’s unemployment rate continues to lag the national jobless average. That …
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From the outside, the Dave and Buster’s in Wayne already looks like fun. But step inside the 48,000-square foot location, and the aroma of Chicken & Waffle sliders, dozens of …
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The council is scheduled for a public hearing at its 6 p.m. meeting Tuesday at Town Hall, which could be followed by a vote on second reading of an ordinance …
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In the year before he went missing in choppy waters 40 miles off the coast of Barnegat, Paul Alexandre Matos bought a house, had a daughter and got licensed to …
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After nearly five years, today Shore News Network has chosen to leave the Montclair University Center for Cooperative Media’s New Jersey News Commons. The commons was originally designed as a …
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Gov. Phil Murphy’s pick for New Jersey’s top law enforcement job got swift legislative approval Tuesday, hours after Murphy took office. Former Bergen County Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal became the nation’s …
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Julian Hoffman, a leader in the Jewish community for decades, was remembered as a mensch and unafraid to stand up for the causes he believed in. Julian Hoffman is remembered …
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A home health aide stole more than $5,000 in jewelry from a Manchester senior citizen who employed her, authorities said. Soraya Rivera-Darle, 35, of Toms River, was charged with theft …
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A 16-year-old armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot and killed his parents, his sister and a family friend who lived with them in Long Branch on New Year’s Eve, authorities …
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Gov.-elect Phil Murphy and U.S. Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez agree: The sole New Jersey Republican to support the President Donald Trump-backed tax plan needs to change his votes. …
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A New York man who admitted to robbing a Lodi bank in 2015 was sentenced Friday to 10 years in state prison. Michael Cassano, 41, pleaded guilty in August to …