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BARNEGAT LIGHT-The U.S. Coast Guard today is advising boaters to
Angered by word of the disciplining of two Lacey High School students for a gun-related social media post, 200 parents, community members and other supporters of the Second Amendment on Monday let the Board of Education know they don’t want the district trampling on their rights or meddling in their home lives. “You guys are reaching…
At approximately 9:48am, there was a report of a vehicle
by Holmdel PD HOLMDEL-This afternoon at 1:14 pm, a tractor-trailer
by Brick PD BRICK-On 03/14/18 at 5:15am Officers responded to Herbertsville Rd two hundred and fifty feet north of Maple Ave for a reported pedestrian that was struck by a vehicle. On scene Officers determined that the vehicle that struck the pedestrian had fled the scene. The victim/pedestrian, Tyrone Stafford, 39 years old was transported to…
JACKSON-The Jackson Township Police Department, Ocean County Prosecutors Office Major
JACKSON-The Jackson Township Council is once again amending township ordinances
SEASIDE HEIGHTS-Donald Fenimore, 29 of and Emilia Vargas, 25 both
by Ralph Stocco, TRPD TOMS RIVER-In the late evening of
by Al DellaFave, OCPO TOMS RIVER-Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D.
TOMS RIVER-Toms River Police spokesman Ralph Stocco confirmed this morning
by JPD The Jackson Police Department would like to welcome
DALLAS-On Monday, the Dallas Fire-Rescue department received word that one
A 34-year-old Newark man fatally shot Tuesday morning is the city’s third homicide in 24 hours. In a statement, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Newark Department of Public Safety said police officers found Willie Jackson unresponsive and suffering from apparent gunshot wounds when they arrived in the 100 block of Brookdale Avenue on a report…
A Seaside High School teacher, who also served as a reserve police officer and a city councilman in Seaside, California, accidentally fired a gun inside the classroom, injuring three students Tuesday. The incident occurred at 1:20 p.m. local time (4:20 p.m. EDT) when Dennis Alexander was conducting Administration of Justice class and teaching the students about…
By Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida. Students from South Plantation High School, carrying placards, protest in support of gun control. Carlos Garcia/Reuters Thousands of high school students across the nation today are expected to leave their classes precisely at 10 a.m. for 17 minutes. The walkout serves two purposes: to…
A dog has died during a United Airlines flight after a flight attendant insisted it be placed in an overhead bin. The black French bulldog was in a pet carrier during the flight Monday from Houston to New York. United said it took responsibility for the death, saying pets should not be placed in the overhead…
The Trump administration has requested Congress move to strip sanctuary cities of federal grants in the spending bill due by the end of next week, a government official said Tuesday. The official briefed reporters aboard Air Force One as President Trump jetted to California to review the prototypes for his border wall. “We are 100 percent…
Gov. Phil Murphy unveiled an ambitious progressive agenda Tuesday when he pulled back the curtain on his $37.4 billion state budget proposal. The spending plan is a $2.7 billion jump over the state’s last budget signed by former Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican. Murphy, a Democrat, wants to, among other things, fully fund schools and the…
Gov. Phil Murphy is set Tuesday to unveil his first state budget proposal that will include more than $1.5 billion in new revenue from taxes and closing loopholes, including a small spike in the state’s sale tax, NJ Advance Media has learned. The extra revenue would also come from a proposed millionaires tax, closures of corporate…
The New Jersey Attorney General’s office will have to abide by the terms of a $1.3 million settlement it agreed to in order to end a whistleblower suit from a former detective. The New Jersey Law Journal reported that the office had agreed to pay the amount in January but then tried to set additional requirements…
A man has been charged with making terroristic threats after allegedly warning he was going to “shoot up” a march calling for stricter gun laws due to be held in Washington. Shane Steele, 42, of Lakewood, New Jersey, was arrested on suspicion of threatening to open fire using a machine gun at the “March For Our…
by OAG, NJ TRENTON– A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, man
A Lakewood man was arrested after he posted a threat on social media that he would open fire with a machine gun on a rally calling for stricter gun laws, authorities said. Shane Steele, 42, was charged with one count of terroristic threats after he was arrested on Friday, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato announced in…
by BCPO Three Charged With Stealing Money From Moorestown Funeral
by NJSP As Troopers, we need to be ready if
The Barnegat Police Department is requesting assistance in identifying the
The White House on Sunday vowed to help provide “rigorous firearms training” to some schoolteachers and formally endorsed a bill to tighten the federal background checks system, but backed off President Trump’s earlier call to raise the minimum age to purchase some guns to 21 years old from 18 years old. Responding directly to last month’s…
https://twitter.com/JJmagers/status/972974463175286784 A Liberty Helicopters aircraft crashed into the East River
Five passengers were killed after a helicopter chartered for a private photoshoot crashed into New York City’s East River on Sunday, only the pilot survived, authorities have confirmed. According to the Federal Aviation Administration on Twitter, the Eurocopter AS350, an aircraft owned by Liberty Helicopters, crashed just after 7 p.m. In a recording to LaGuardia Airport,…
A helicopter has crashed into New York City’s East River, killing two passengers and critically injuring three others. Police say a sixth person, the pilot, freed himself and was rescued by a passing tugboat on Sunday night. The helicopter was being chartered for a photo shoot when it went down near Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence.…
Eileen McCay is hoping change will come from tragedy. Her close friend Colleen Brownell and Brownell’s stepsister, Alysia McCloskey, deserve it, she says. The two were at McCloskey’s home in Collingswood on Dec. 30 when they were stabbed to death, prosecutors say. Brownell’s ex-fiance Mark Lyczak, 45, of Burlington City, is charged with their murders and…
An Ocean County Sheriff’s officer was injured Saturday night when he swerved out of the way of another vehicle on a state highway in Tom’s River, the Sheriff’s department said Sunday. The officer, who hasn’t been named, was traveling on Route 37 near Mule Road in his marked Ford Explorer around 10 p.m. The officer swerved…
by Howell Police Department On March 9, 2018, Tristan Reyes,
Beachwood Fire Department personnel assisted at the scene of a
Authorities in Ocean County announced Friday they dismantled a “sophisticated” drug ring that had tentacles in seven different New Jersey counties and New York and led to 28 arrests, the seizure of more than 90,000 doses of heroin and 191 pounds of cocaine, and $850,000 in cash. The widespread operation, dubbed “Operation Heading Back,” began in…
The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a tent fire that claimed the life of an Ocean Township man. Police and firefighters responded to a tent fire on Seneca Boulevard in Waretown shortly before 3 a.m. on Friday. Once the fire was out, the body of a 51-year-old man was discovered inside, police said in a…
On March 9, 2018, Tristan Reyes, 19 of Howell, was
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph Coronato announced guilty verdicts in the
TRENTON-There’s a new boss in New Jersey and his name
Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato announced today the culmination
HOWELL-Police are investigating an incident here where a suspect followed
The Washington Post recently published an op-ed by writer Adam Weinstein in which he argues that Second Amendment advocates “use jargon to bully gun-control supporters.” “While debating the merits of various gun control proposals,” he contends, “Second Amendment enthusiasts often diminish, or outright dismiss their views if they use imprecise firearms terminology.” How dare Second Amendment…
The southern end of Seaside Heights’ boardwalk — engulfed in a 2013 fire that also devastated neighboring Seaside Park — will be redeveloped in phases as a pool complex with a modern pavilion and cabanas available for daily and summer rentals, with an outdoor bar scheduled to open this Memorial Day, borough and project officials said.…
If you feel live a caveman stuck in the Stone Age, you’re not alone. More than 240,000 Jersey homes and businesses are waiting for utility crews to restore their power after a week of dueling nor’easters packed with heavy snow, rain and wind. And while JCP&L employees have worked 16 hour shifts and restored power to…
The teenager accused in the mass shooting at a U.S. high school three weeks ago was indicted Wednesday on 17 counts of premeditated murder and another 17 counts of attempted murder. Nikolas Cruz, 19, who was expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last year, could face the death penalty in the case,…
The Jersey City middle school teacher arrested yesterday and accused of numerous sex crimes has been identified as a 42-year-old Bayonne man. Sean Lora, a teacher at School 7 in the Jersey City Heights, is accused touching a student in a classroom on Tuesday, according to a statement from Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez. Detectives investigating…
Bones found on a remote South Pacific island that were originally believed to be those of a man may in fact be those of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who disappeared in the area in 1937, according to a new study. Richard Jantz, professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, used modern bone measurement analysis…
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