Gunfire erupts outside high school football game in Charles County, no injuries reported
Waldorf, MD – A Friday night football game at St. Charles High School ended in chaos after gunshots were fired in the parking lot, according to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies…
Jackson Township to create an advisory board to decide future of Rova Farms property
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – When the Jackson Township governing body chose to purchase the aging Rova Farms property, once a community and regional entertainment hot spot, they had no future plan in…
Jackson School District to hold closed Board of Education Meeting this week before public meeting
The Jackson Township Board of Education will conduct a Closed Conference Meeting on Wednesday, January 19, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in the Conference Room of Jackson Memorial High School, 101 Don Connor Blvd, Jackson,…
Man charged after threatening Dollar General employees with knife
LACEY, NJ – On Monday, January 10, 2022, at 8:34 p.m., multiple officers were dispatched to Dollar General for a reported robbery. Store employees reported that a male shopper was observed opening…
Driver charged with DUI after crashing into tree
LACEY, NJ – On Saturday, January 8, 2022, at 11:29 p.m., Officers Brian Holt and Michael Hyle responded to Sunrise Boulevard for a one-car motor vehicle accident. Officers discovered that a vehicle…
Driver charged for DWI after crash on Route 9 in Lacey
LACEY TWP, NJ – On Thursday, January 6, 2022, at 6:36 p.m., several officers were dispatched to the intersection of Route 9 and Taylor Lane for a hit and run accident. Investigation…
Lacey township shoplifter detained for outstanding warrants in Toms River
LACEY TOWNSHIP, NJ – On Thursday, January 6, 2022, at 2:34 p.m., Officer Michael Hein responded to Home Depot in reference to a shoplifter who fled in a vehicle. The vehicle was…
Undocumented driver plows into Toms River home also had no insurance, police report
TOMS RIVER, NJ – On Friday, January 14, 2022, at approximately 11:25 PM, police were dispatched to Cox Cro Road, near the intersection of Old Freehold Road, for a serious motor vehicle…
Embattled Ocean County GOP Chairman Holman will not seek re-election in 2022, retiring in June
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Ocean County GOP Chairman Frank B. Holman’s reign of fear and terror is coming to an end in Ocean County this June. After meeting with party elders, including…
Ocean County’s oldest commissioner facing younger Republican challenger in 2022
TOMS RIVER, NJ – When Ocean County Republicans compete in the 2022 GOP primary election, the Board of Commissioner’s elder stateswoman, Virginia Haines will be wiping the icing clean from her 76th…
Toms River Council changes meeting date to accommodate no-show attorney McGuckin, same time as school board meetings
TOMS RIVER, NJ – The Toms River Township Council has moved their meeting dates from Tuesday where it has been held historically for many years to Wednesday night. The decision was made…
Jackson man never came home after New Orleans business trip, police say
JACKSON, NJ – The Jackson Township man has been reported missing by the New Orleans Police Department after he didn’t return home from a business trip last week. Police said 33-year-old Michael…
Jackson man charged for theft at Extreme Marine Construction facility
BRICK, NJ – On 12/18/2021 a theft occurred at Extreme Marine Construction on Princeton Ave in Brick. The suspect loaded expensive aluminum beams onto a flat trailer owned by the business and…
Egg Harbor arsonist pleads guilty to burning home with three people inside
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Egg Harbor Township, pled guilty before the Honorable Guy P. Ryan, J.S.C., to one count of Aggravated Arson – by purposely or knowingly placing another in danger of…
New Yorkers charged with defrauding elderly shore woman
BARNEGAT, NJ – Barnegat Township Police Chief Keith A. Germain announced that on January 6, 2022, Jorge Peguero-Mendez, 34, and Richard Quinones-Perez, 24, both of the Bronx, New York, were each charged…
Murphy, Hochul sign off on massive half-million-acre windfarm off the coast of the Jersey Shore
WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, alongside New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and Liz Shuler, President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, announced today that the Bureau…
Ocean County Republicans say Phil Murphy ‘blatantly disregarding’ the legislative process
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Senator Jim Holzapfel and Assemblyman John Catalano called Governor Murphy’s renewal of his public health emergency powers, which were set to expire on January 11, a blatant disregard…
Suspect who tried to burn down Point Pleasant Group home pleads guilty to arson, terroristic threats
PT. PLEASANT BEACH, NJ – Shaun Giberson, 40, of Point Pleasant Beach, pled guilty before the Honorable Michael T. Collins, J.S.C., to Terroristic Threats relative to threats made in Point Pleasant Borough…
Suspect in 2021 Lakewood Township shooting indicted for murder
TOMS RIVER, NJ – A suspect in a February 2021 shooting murder has been indicted. On January 12, 2022, Jahvontae Debose, 25, of Lakewood, was indicted by a Grand Jury sitting in…
Defiance is illegal, Toms River Mayor Mo Hill says in township property reevaluation message
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Toms River Mayor Mo Hill and the Toms River Township Council have announced a new property reevaluation. Historically, municipal revaluations balance residents’ fair share of property taxes meaning…
Woman, two cops treated for smoke inhalation during Lacey home fire
LACEY TOWNSHIP, NJ – On Sunday, January 9, 2022, at 6:02 a.m., officers were dispatched to a Holly Place residence for an active structure fire. Officers and members of the Forked River…