Today's Daily Dose: January 3, 2017

250 Earthquakes reported on New Year’s Eve near California-Mexico border More than 250 small earthquakes have struck since New Year’s Eve near the California-Mexico border, causing unease among residents and attention from…

Bill to Protect Consumers from Post Disaster Price Gouging Passes Assembly

by Phil Stilton TRENTON-After Superstorm Sandy, allegations over price gouging on items ranging from food to emergency essentials was prevalent around the county by unscrupulous business owners trying to cash in on…

Bateman Bill to Support Stem Entrepreneurs Passes Labor Committee

Legislation sponsored by Senator Christopher “Kip” Bateman to create a fellowship program to support entrepreneurs in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields was advanced by the Senate Labor Committee. Sen. Kip…

Bateman/Doherty Bill Establishing Hunterdon-Somerset Flood Advisory Task Force Advances

Legislation sponsored by Senators Christopher “Kip” Bateman and Michael Doherty establishing a task force to address flooding in Somerset and Hunterdon counties was approved by the Senate Environment & Energy Committee. Flooding…

Committee Passes Oroho Estate Tax Phase Out & Retirement Income Tax Cut

A pair of tax-cut bills sponsored by Senator Steven Oroho (R-Sussex, Warren, Morris) was advanced by the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee. Legislation by Sen. Steven Oroho would phase out the estate…

Jackson Based Harmony Bank Sold to Lakeland Bancorp for $32 Million

JACKSON-The Boards of Directors of Lakeland Bancorp, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger pursuant to which Harmony Bank will be merged with and into…

Oroho Statement on Governor’s Budget Address

Senator Steven Oroho (R-Sussex, Warren, Morris) issued the following statement regarding the Governor’s budget address and the upcoming legislative budget season: Sen. Steven Oroho said that in upcoming budgeting process the Legislature…

Editorial: How Jackson Can Strengthen No Knock Laws and Still be a Good Neighbor

Jackson Township, like our neighbors in Howell, Brick and Toms River is experiencing a real estate market boom. That boom is driving the prices of homes upward in the eastern portion of…

New Jersey Democrats: Under Obama, Poverty has Increased 40% in the Garden State

TRENTON-In a release issued today by the New Jersey Assembly Democrat, more New Jersey residents are in poverty than have been since 2008, when President Obama was elected. In fact, poverty in the Garden…

Obama signs International Megan's Law

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Monday signed legislation named for a Hamilton girl that’s designed to alert foreign governments when registered sex offenders travel abroad. The International Megan’s Law to Prevent…

Brick Realtor Who Attempted to Hire Teenage Prostitute Accepted for Pre-Trial Intervention

A Brick Township-based real estate broker was arrested on September 28, 204 after he set up a meeting to have sex with a 14-year-old girl who turned out to be an undercover police…

Weekly Police Blotter – Lacey Township Police Department – January 26th, 2016 thru February 2nd, 2016

Weekly Police Blotter January 26th thru February 2nd, 2016 . . Warrant Arrest – On Monday, February 1, 2016, at 10:13 p.m., Officer Scott Keefe was on patrol when he observed 32-year-old Paul.…

Weekly Police Blotter – Lacey Township Police Department – January 19th thru 25th, 2016

Weekly Police Blotter January 19th thru 25th, 2016 . . Extortion via the Internet – On Monday, January 25, 2016, at 12:41 p.m., Lacey Township Police responded to a Lanoka Harbor address…

In death of a dolphin, a lesson in state secrecy | Editorial

Of all the Christie administration’s baffling refusals to grant public records requests — and there have been many — this could be the most ridiculous yet. The story begins with a wayward…

Heroin Laced with Pesticides Spreading Through New Jersey

Carbaryl, the chemical found in the common garden pesticide Sevin is popping up in New Jersey’s heroin on the streets this week. NJ.Com reports: New Jersey State Police said heroin seized in Middlesex County…

Surprise Takedown at Toms River Bus Terminal

On Thursday the Ocean County Prosecutors Office arrested a Pittsgrove man for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old female in Manchester. Dennis Myers, 36, was investigated following a report from the victim. She informed…

3 Arrests in Christmas Eve Slaying

Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato and Lakewood Township Police Chief Robert Lawson announced Tuesday arrests in the death of Miguel Rivera of Lakewood, found dead in his home on Christmas Eve.…

Newark's last homicide of 2015, first of 2016 come just hours apart

NEWARK — Authorities here are investigating the death of a 36-year-old man who was was killed during a domestic altercation after midnight on New Year’s Day. Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray’s…

Reds Fans Erupt; Sox Fans Rejoice Over Frazier Trade

TOMS RIVER-In 2015, the Cincinnati Reds finished the season in Major League Baseball’s baseball as a team in decline and this off-season Reds brass have decided to enter a rebuilding stage. That’s what…

ABC NEWS: Head of Influential New Jersey Political Lobbying Firm Assaulted Blind U.S. Army Veteran

by Phil Stilton EAST ORANGE-ABC News this morning has reported that powerful North Jersey Democrat Party Chairman LeRoy Jones is being charged for assaulting a partially blind U.S. army war veteran after…

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