The first time I asked Gov. Chris Christie a question we were 2,000 miles from New Jersey. I was a year into my first newspaper job in southeast New Mexico. Christie, just eight months into his first term, was there to stump for Susana Martinez’s campaign for governor. Noting the candidate’s law-and-order record, Christie played up…
For some, the evening commute on Monday could include some freezing rain and sleet. A winter weather advisory has been issued for central and southwestern New Jersey, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, according to the National Weather Service forecast. A wintry mix, including light freezing rain, sleet and snow, could hit commuters in…
An additional 103 Sears and KMart stores will close in the next several months, Sears Holdings announced Thursday. Among the locations set to go out of business is the Sears on Hooper Avenue in Toms River. That store will close in early April. The Sears Auto Center there will shutter its doors in late January. Sears…
A sergeant who was stationed in Fort Lee was killed Monday while serving in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army said. Sergeant First Class Mihail Golin, 34, died of injuries sustained from small arms fire while on dismounted patrol in the Nangarhar Province in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Army officials said. Four other soldiers were wounded in…
A New Jersey woman won $5 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket she purchased accidentally in New York City and didn’t even bother checking for two weeks. Oksana Zaharov, 46, of Edgewater, told New York Lottery officials she meant to buy $1 scratch-off ticket but was mistakenly issued a $10 Set for Life ticket by the…
The Long Branch teenager who allegedly killed his parents, sister and a family friend on New Year’s Eve opened fire “at close range” using a semi-automatic rifle containing 15 bullets, prosecutors said Tuesday. Law enforcement officials also revealed a third person – a woman in her 20s – fled the house when the shots began along…
Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the New Jersey Division
Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino and the Division of Consumer
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 said Monday. The teen, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, will be charged as an adult with four counts of murder and…
Typically, police dash cams are used to gather evidence during traffic stops. However, a New Jersey police officer accidentally captured something quite spectacular on his: a fireball blazing across the sky. Sgt. Michael Virga was on patrol when the camera recorded the bright meteor, at 3:09 am on December 2, according to a statement on Facebook…
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. The state’s top three elected Democrats expressed their dismay Friday over U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur’s decision to back the GOP tax plan they say will devastate…
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WHEN forecasters start using the s-word – snow – or
SEVENTY-SIX YEARS ago this week, Imperial Japanese forces launched a
The hunt launched by police in Sea Girt, New Jersey, for a vandal who damaged a popular Christmas lights display ended Saturday morning with the arrest of a squirrel. The police uploaded a picture of the perpetrator along with a statement on its Twitter page which said officials had caught the squirrel who was responsible for…
OCEAN COUNTY officials are hoping to make this holiday season
Looks like Arby’s is about to add some Buffalo to its menu! The parent company of the “we have the meats” restaurant announced plans to acquire Buffalo Wild Wings in a deal valued at $2.9 billion. RELATED: 17 senior restaurant discounts for those 50 and older Buffalo Wild Wings is getting a new owner On November…
Randy Levine has never been shy about speaking his mind–especially when money is on the table. The Yankees president has become known for boasting about his team–or against certainly players (Dellin Betances) when he feels it’s necessary. The latest to feel the wrath of Levine: President Donald Trump. The reason? Trump’s tax plan, which Levine is…
TOMS RIVER – The Public is invited to join Ocean
TRENTON — Having lost the governorship, seats in both the state Senate and Assembly and numerous freeholder boards, New Jersey’s GOP has picked a new chairman to lead it out of the wilderness. Their choice was Doug Steinhardt, a name partner in former Gov. Jim Florio’s law firm, Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader. He was elected…
MORRIS PLAINS — Love him or hate him. If you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of people a year who use the public park located minutes from his home, you’ll likely get to it this time next year by way of “Governor Chris Christie Drive.” Gov. Chris Christie joined local officials here Monday to break…
by The Ocean County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Joseph Vicari,
In the upcoming days and weeks, downtown business districts and
SURROUNDED BY HEAVY EQUIPMENT and the sounds associated with it,
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria, a strong, category-four hurricane
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Friday that if the allegations against Alabama candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore are true, he should step aside, and “should be dealt with severely.” But Graham not only hasn’t called for Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez (N.J.), accused of having sex with underage prostitutes, to step aside — he went…
Anthony Crincoli spent almost 31/2 years in battle in Iraq. His unit of the 112th Infantry Regiment lost 32 members during fighting around Baghdad. “That was in 2006,” he said. “The first time we were ambushed was Easter Sunday that year. That always stuck with me. “I’ve seen tanks blown in half. I’ve seen the Iraqi…
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ago, hundreds of men from Ocean County
TOMS RIVER – With more than 60,000 veterans calling Ocean
TOMS RIVER – With the state Gubernatorial Election just days
SOUTHERN OCEAN COUNTY commuters will be able to enjoy a
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…
TRENTON — Democrat Phil Murphy is holding steady with a 14-point lead over Republican Kim Guadagno with less than a week left in the race to succeed Chris Christie as New Jersey’s governor, according to a poll released Wednesday. The Monmouth University Poll found that Guadagno hasn’t been able to gain traction against Murphy despite attacking…
TRENTON – Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced that Kevin
THE OCEAN COUNTY Clerk’s Office and the Ocean County Board
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…
TOMS RIVER – In an effort to raise awareness that
TOMS RIVER – The state and local tax deduction (SALT)
TOMS RIVER – Women’s Health Month is being celebrated around
TOMS RIVER – Ocean County is encouraging residents to take
NEWARK — Dozens of pimps and prostitutes were arrested in New Jersey as part of annual international sweep led by the FBI to crackdown on human trafficking, officials said. In what authorities dubbed “Operation Cross Country XI,” 42 people were arrested in the state on warrants and charges of sex trafficking, child exploitation and prostitution. It…
LONG BRANCH – An off-duty Long Branch police officer who fatally struck a woman on Ocean Boulevard last month told officers at the scene he had a green light and that she was jaywalking, newly obtained dashboard camera video shows. Jake Pascucci, 28, was driving a 2016 Jeep Cherokee southbound on Ocean Boulevard when the vehicle…
CAPE MAY COUNTY — The first of the five Cape May county bridges to get E-ZPass will start to offer the service within the next two months. The installation of E-ZPass at the Ocean City-Longport Bridge could be finished as soon as late November, but will be complete no later than mid-December, according to Cape May…
TOMS RIVER – Noting that Ocean County students will be
TOMS RIVER – From the installation of a high-tech heat
HOWELL-Amy Cores, a challenger to New Jersey State Senator Robert
TRENTON-Apparently, legal gun ownership in New Jersey is a big problem for one percenter Phil Murphy and the National Rifle Association is no better than Hollywood producers who sexually assault aspiring actresses.
After being caught with his hand in Harvey Weinstein’s cookie jar, New Jersey Millionaire and Wall Street mogul Phil Murphy said taking Weinstein’s money is equal to Republicans taking money from the NRA.
“He was going to be part of something,” Murphy said of the Hollywood icon who has been shamed in recent days over his accused thirty-year pattern of sexual harassment against women. “We heard there was something happening, we dropped him…and canceled the entire event.”
Murphy immediately accused Guadagno of getting money from the National Rifle Association. Murphy says the NRA has supported Republican candidate Kim Guadagno, giving at least $65,000 to the candidate.
“I find that unconscionable particularly since what happened over the past 9 days,” he added, invoking the Las Vegas massacre. “Let’s make sure we’re focused on the facts.”
Murphy said he hasn’t taken a dime from Weinstein, whose reputation in Hollywood had proceeded him for decades as a womanizer. Weinstein did not say how much money he intended to take in from Weinstein after meeting with him, along with Hollywood loud mouth liberal, Robert DeNiro in August.
