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BRICK-A man was struck on Monday night by a vehicle
BRICK-The Brick Township Police Department has opted into a program
Theft – On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, at 12:24 p.m., Officer
Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that Rabbi Osher Eisemann,
On Thursday, April 12, 2018 the Hamilton Township School District
Structure Fire On April 4th Police, Fire, and EMS units
Police in Toms River are asking for the public’s help as they look for 54-year-old man who has been missing for a week and needs immediate medical attention. Luiz Perez left his home in the North Dover section of town on April 3 without identification, a phone or medicine and has had no contact with family…
One was accused of bending back the fingers and rapping the knuckles of uncooperative students. Another allegedly helped kids cheat on state tests. A third robbed a bank. Last year, New Jersey yanked the teaching licenses of 76 teachers and school officials for a wide variety of misconduct, sexual abuse, crimes and other allegations inside and…
A 42-year-old Berkeley police officer who has been named in four separate excessive force lawsuits has given up his bid to be reinstated to the force and instead retired. Patrick Stesner was on paid leave for about a year for nearly a year before he decided to retire March 1, Berkeley Township administrator John Camera confirmed…
Several hundred people gathered at the dedication of a Vietnam
Sheriff Bob Nolan of Cape May County, New Jersey, has been on the job for fewer than 80 days — but as a seasoned law enforcement professional of , he hit the ground running. Nolan and the Cape May County freeholders have united in their opposition to becoming a sanctuary state, as New Jersey’s Democrat Gov.…
A Jersey Shore contractor accused of taking nearly a quarter-million dollars from 12 clients to perform work he never even started was arrested last week after more than a week on the run, authorities said. Peter Rinaldi, 56, of Little Egg Harbor, was taken into custody Friday near the Baymont Inn on East White Horse Pike…
Confusion over their address is costing a New Jersey family over $10,000. A woman who lives in Brick, but has a Howell mailing address, has to pay the Howell Board of Education after she mistakenly enrolled her child in the neighboring district. In New Jersey, mailing addresses often do not follow municipal boundaries. The student actually…
by Matthew Reilly, USAO NEWARK– Two individuals who allegedly forced a
A municipal official in a New Jersey shore town who said he would resign after police found a hypodermic needle in his vehicle has changed his mind. Spring Lake Heights Councilman Robert Merriken is charged with possessing drug paraphernalia. But he’s maintaining his innocence, telling APP.com that the charge was “ridiculous” and that the needle did…
TRENTON-The same lawmakers who passed New Jersey’s outrageous 23 cents
LACEY-At approximately 12:30am, November 26, 2017, the night shift manager
The call was cold, abrupt and confusing. A PetSmart employee told Chuck Crawford his beloved dog Abby was dead and gave him info on where to pick up the carcass. “It was a 20-second phone call. It was so crude and beyond comprehension,” Crawford said. “To take your pet for a grooming, and then have them…
TRENTON-New Jersey Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri-Huttle (D) thinks children under the age
A judge has dismissed a murder indictment against a woman accused of purposely pushing a friend into the deep end of a motel swimming pool during a night of drinking at a Point Pleasant Beach motel. But Jelani Webster will remain jailed without bail for now. State Superior Court Judge James Blaney gave Ocean County prosecutors…
An off-duty Long Branch police officer admitted Tuesday that he was driving drunk when he fatally struck a woman as she crossed the street in September. Detective Jake Pascucci acknowledged that he had at least a blood-alcohol level of .08, the state’s legal limit for drivers, when he hit Karen Borkowski, 66, as she crossed Ocean…
WASHINGTON, DC-New Jerseyans, many who are transplants from New York
by Ralph Stocco, TRPD TOMS RIVER-On March 28th at 10 pm
JACKSON-On Saturday March 24, 2018 at approximately 9:45 pm, Police
Effectively immediately, doctors in New Jersey can recommend their patients use medical marijuana to treat anxiety, various forms of chronic pain, migraines and Tourette’s syndrome. The conditions have been added under the first stage of a wide-ranging expansion of the medicinal marijuana program announced Tuesday by Gov. Phil Murphy . Patients will also pay less to…
JACKSON-The Jackson MUA said on Thursday that the authority has
WASHINGTON,DC-Republican Tom MacArthur, representing New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district took
A woman working as the Easter Bunny became ill while working at Ocean County Mall, and was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to officials. Toms River police responded to the mall around 11 a.m. Monday after receiving a report of a woman in distress. There, they found the 35-year-old Bayville woman, clad in the…
The Medicaid fraud amnesty program offered to Ocean County residents after 26 people were arrested last summer in a massive sweep has resulted in consent agreements with 159 residents who will repay $2.2 million, state officials announced Tuesday. The announcement comes more than three months after the Dec. 12 deadline to enter the Ocean County Recipient…
by Al DellaFave LAKEWOOD-Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and
Lacey Mom Fights Back Against Lacey School District’s “Viewpoint Discrimination”
LONG BEACH ISLAND-For several years, it has been a hobby
TOMS RIVER-New Jersey has been hit hard this year by
TRENTON-New Jersey lawmakers are trying to rein in a pattern
Republican state Senator Joe Pennachhio is looking to make it harder
State lawmakers are set to vote Monday on a package of bills to make New Jersey’s gun laws even tougher — and Gov. Phil Murphy has vowed to sign them all if they reach his desk. The state Assembly will consider six measures at the Statehouse in Trenton, including one to reduce magazine capacity, another to…
New Jersey State Police are investigating the death of a man whose body washed ashore Saturday afternoon at a Cape May County marina, a spokesperson said Sunday. A passerby reported the body floating near rocks around 3:15 p.m. Saturday at the All Seasons Marina, in the 500 block of Roosevelt Boulevard in the Marmora section of…
A 95-year-old Lakewood man was killed Saturday afternoon in Toms River when he crashed head-on into a car in the oncoming lane of traffic, police said. Raymond Gillick was traveling south on Route 9 at 3:01 p.m. when his car crossed into the oncoming lane near North Maple Avenue and struck another vehicle driven by a…
SEASIDE PARK-Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and Seaside Park
NEPTUNE-On Thursday morning in Shark River, a resident was starting
BRIELLE-The Brielle Police Department, Fire Department and EMS responded to
NEW GRETNA–Mark McGovern, a congressional candidate in New Jersey’s second
by Spring Lake PD SPRING LAKE-The heavy, wet snow from
HAMILTON TWP-On March 21, 2018 at approximately 7:49pm Officer Hartman
MILLSTONE-This morning, firefighters in Millstone Township had to battle the
by Todd Malland, MPD Manchester Twp. NJ – As Winter
Snow will continue to fall steadily until 2 am Thursday
The good guys do win once in a while, even in liberal-leaning California. A teacher with the El Rancho Unified School District in Southern California named Gregory Salcido was fired after Board of Education members decided his anti-military comments caught on tape were so vicious that they – as well as he – didn’t belong in…
by Jackson PD JACKSON-Samantha Conners (Badge #300), age 23, was
