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A battle for control of the historic Hereford Inlet Lighthouse in North Wildwood is pitting the local government against a nonprofit group that claims credit for helping restore the landmark. The city shut the group out of the 144-year-old Victorian mansion built around an imposing, wooden lighthouse tower at the end of November after changing the…
The Toms River Township Council Tuesday night unanimously voted to introduce a pair of ordinances authorizing the purchase of a crime-ridden motor lodge for $4.8 million, planning to demolish it to create open space under a riverfront development plan, the mayor said. “The plan would be to knock it down,” said Mayor Thomas Kelaher, who attended…
A driver was killed and passenger injured after a car crashed into a tree Monday night in Toms River, authorities said. The car was eastbound on Washington Street when it went off the road around 9 p.m. near the intersection of Clifton Avenue, Toms River police said in a statement Tuesday. Victims ID’d in fatal crash…
Don’t worry, Jersey. Your next governor may have grown up out of state, but he says he won’t make you pump your own gas. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy weighed in on the Garden State’s great gas debate Monday, saying he’s cool with allowing New Jersey to remain the last state in America where self-serve gas is prohibited.…
Mike Mularkey is out as the head coach of the Tennessee Titans, who said the “two parties couldn’t come to an agreement over the future.” “I want to thank Mike Mularkey for his contributions to our franchise over his tenure with our organization,” Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk said in a statement. “He took over…
As Phil Murphy succeeds Chris Christie as New Jersey’s governor Tuesday, there’s at least one thing students and teachers in the state’s public schools can expect: an end to controversial PARCC testing. But when and how that will happen remains unclear. Murphy on Monday reiterated his campaign promise to eliminate the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness…
A 29-year-old man was struck and killed by a car as he tried to cross Route 70 in Lakewood Sunday night, township police said. William Fernando Campo Verde, of Lakewood, was hit by a westbound 2017 Nissan Altima around 8:40 p.m., near Vermont Avenue, according to Detective Lt. Gregory Staffordsmith. Verde was crossing the highway outside…
Irish singer Dolores O’Riordan, who was well-known for as the lead singer of “The Cranberries,” has died in London, her publicist says. She was 46 years old. “Irish and international singer Dolores O’Riordan has died suddenly in London today,” her publicist said in a brief statement on Monday. It provided no further details about the cause…
Plumbing giant A.J. Perri has been hit with a $100,000 fine – the largest ever levied by New Jersey’s plumbing board – and has agreed to reform its deceitful business practices under a consent order reached with the state Attorney General’s Office. The deal, finalized last week, follows a Bamboozled investigation that found the company routinely…
