Authorities on Saturday hailed a car dealership employee as a hero after she saw smoke coming from a Toms River home and rushed inside to save three boys and the family dog from a fire. Suzanne G. Reynolds, of Matawan, was working at Pine Belt Cadillac on Route 37, when she saw smoke coming from the…
Howell police said a northbound section of Route 9 in the township was closed for an accident investigation Sunday night after a pedestrian was fatally struck between the Lakewood border and Alexander Avenue. In statements posted to social media late Sunday evening, police asked drivers to find an alternate route during the closure but did not…
Facebook on Monday unveiled a version of its Messenger application for children, aimed at enabling kids under 12 to connect with others under parental supervision. Messenger Kids is being rolled out for Apple iOS mobile devices in the United States on a test basis as a standalone video chat and messaging app. Product manager Loren Cheng…
Midway Beach, a small oceanfront community on the Jersey Shore, was barely impacted by Superstorm Sandy, due largely to the large sand dunes its nearly 400 homeowners built and maintained over the decades. Then, state officials told the community’s condominium association that the government was seizing the beach to make way for protective sand dunes that…
By Alexis Elder, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth. English106, CC BY The nature and ethics of “fake news” has become a subject of widespread concern. But, for many of us, the issue is much more personal: What are we to do when a cranky uncle or an otherwise pleasant old friend persists in…
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…
President Trump urged people Saturday to sue ABC News over a false on-air report that former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was prepared to testify about Trump campaign collusion with Russia, which sent the stock market into a dive on Friday. ABC News later corrected the story and suspended investigative reporter Brian Ross – but after…
