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President Donald Trump’s popular daughter Ivanka has assumed a lead role selling tax reform in small venue events across the country this fall season. That push has become all the more critical for Republicans with recent highly-publicized election losses and the Midterm cycle quickly approaching. Ivanka’s next stop? Congressman Tom MacArthur (R, NJ-03) will host the…
BRICK — Police are searching for a driver who struck and seriously injured a person in a road rage incident Tuesday behind a Brick grocery store. The driver fled in an older model, black, Volvo four-door sedan that police say has smashed windshield and side-view mirror damage. The vehicle had a possible partial NJ plate of…
SOUTH TOMS RIVER – The president of the youth baseball league in this tiny Ocean County town was arrested Wednesday after police determined he had stolen money from the league. Police released few details of the investigation that led to the arrest of Luis M. Quiros, who is listed on the South Toms River Youth Baseball…
TOMS RIVER — A 60-year-old woman was struck and killed by a vehicle on Sunday as she and a man were crossing an intersection at Hooper and Terrace avenues, police said in a statement. Manuela Morales-Torres, of Toms River, died after being hit by the vehicle shortly before 6 p.m. while crossing the intersection with a…
TRENTON — Months of campaigns stops, hundreds of speeches and thousands of handshakes are behind us. Now, in the race to succeed Gov. Chris Christie, it’s “go” time for the two major party rivals. Time to get their voters to the polls. For Republican Kim Guadagno and Democrat Phil Murphy, their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s…
HOWELL – A group of security guards who removed an unruly concertgoer at a metal music festival held at an event center on Route 9 in Howell Saturday night were attacked outside the venue, according to police. The attackers fled the area before police arrived. All four of the security guards were taken to the hospital…
BERKELEY — A benefit at a pizzeria in Bayville will raise money for the children of a 32-year-old township police sergeant who died Friday after suffering a stroke while on duty. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds at the benefit Wednesday at Tony’s Pizza will go to the children of Sgt. Alison Wray, a post on Facebook…
MONMOUTH COUNTY — One northbound local lane on the Garden State Parkway will be closed “indefinitely” for emergency bridge repairs, officials said. The closure north of exit 109 is necessary because the span carrying the Parkway over Middletown-Lincroft Road was damaged Thursday when it was struck by a back hoe being hauled on the bed of…
TOMS RIVER — Police have filed a public nuisance complaint against a motel after police have been called to more than 750 times in less than three years to the business. Toms River police have become very familiar with the Red Carpet Inn on Water Street, responding hundreds of times for alleged drug dealing, theft, fraud,…
TRENTON — The “jerk” at the center of the deadly New York City bike path attack that killed eight people and left at least 11 injured should not automatically put an end to an immigration program being blasted by President Donald Trump, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Phil Murphy said Wednesday. Murphy, speaking to WNYC’s Brian Lehrer on…
TOMS RIVER – Four Lakewood residents accused of wrongfully collecting thousands in public benefits appeared in Superior Court in Ocean County on Wednesday, and their cases will proceed to a grand jury. Appearing before Judge Linda Baxter was Eliezer, 33, and Elkie Sorotzkin, 31, and Jerome Menchel and his wife, Mottel Friedman. The Sorotzkins are accused…
Three New Jersey towns are being sued for legislating against the construction of an eruv in their borders. The frontrunner in the state”s gubernatorial race also criticized the towns” actions in an op-ed in a local Jewish newspaper. A few New Jersey towns on the border with New York have been trying for months to prevent…
NEW BRUNSWICK — What frays New Jerseyans’ nerves the most? Parkway traffic? Trenton politics? Family woes? No, it’s money. A new poll by the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy found 27 percent of New Jersey residents say they have a “great deal” of stress in their lives. Another 44 percent reported “some stress” in the…
More than half of the Superstorm Sandy victims that have been tracked in the five years since the storm decimated New Jersey are still dissatisfied with the state’s recovery efforts, a new poll shows. Of 432 people hit hard by the October 2012 storm who have now been interviewed four times since then, 55 percent are…
When the eye of Sandy made landfall just north of Atlantic City five years ago this Sunday, Fran Baronowitz’s neighborhood – which was a few miles away in Ventnor – suddenly turned into a lake. Water bubbled up through the air ducts of her home, and the floors buckled so much that she had trouble opening…
TOMS RIVER — Trying to beat back the state’s ongoing push for a continuous dune along New Jersey’s Atlantic coastline, a condominium association outside of Island Beach State Park is suing to stop the massive dune project there. In court documents filed Friday in Superior Court, members of the Midway Beach Condominium Association say they shouldn’t…
LONG BRANCH – When Karen Borkowski was fatally struck by a car driven by an off-duty Long Branch officer last month, she was attempting to cross the street to purchase bandages at a CVS to care for her husband. That errand embodied the kind, caring person she was, according to her husband Ed Borkowski “My wife…
On Oct. 29, 2012, hurricane Sandy devastated many communities along New Jersey’s coast. Five years later, many families have yet to recover from the storm and are still not back in their homes. A new report entitled The Long Road Home, recently published by the New Jersey Resource Project, documents the journey of Sandy-affected families who…
If the back-to-back-to-back hurricanes that slammed parts of the country earlier this autumn taught us anything, it’s that that next major storm is not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. Even as President Trump rejects the notion of climate change as just so much fake news, the most fervent deniers can see the…
Forecasters are advising drivers to avoid standing water left on roads Monday after a coastal storm making its way up the East Coast unleashed heavy rainfall in New Jersey. The National Weather Service issued flood warnings in numerous counties Sunday as heavy rain fell throughout the Garden State. More than 20 cities and towns could experience…