Cumberland County

New Jersey State Police are searching for a man who stuffed multiple items into a bag at the Walmart store in Upper Deerfield Township, and never paid for the items.  The alleged theft occurred on Sunday, April 15th.  The man is described by police as being a white or Hispanic …

Two men have been indicted on charges that they committed a series of armed robberies in Cumberland County during the winter.  16 counts have been filed against 45 year old Richard Martinez of Vineland, and 24 year old Nicholas Alaimo, also of Vineland.  Martinez is charged with five counts of …

New Jersey Congressman Frank LoBiondo announced that more than $600,000 in federal funding is coming to Cumberland County to expand wetlands preservation in Cumberland County.  Land will be acquired and preserved along the Cohansey River.  1,650 acres of land will be preserved.

New Jersey State Police have wrapped up a six-month investigation and charged two Cumberland County men with significant drugs and weapons offenses.  Police say 36 year old Felix Davila of Bridgeton and 23 year old Kenneth Ortiz of Vineland were slapped with numerous offenses.  Police recovered handguns, heroin, cocaine and …

Two Vineland men have been charged by New Jersey State Police with a string of car burglaries throughout the South Jersey region, including in Cumberland County.  Police say 22 year old Marcanthony Jones and 34 year old George Hayes were located at the end of March, one in a motel …

It’s been a slow process to restore power for several thousand customers of Atlantic City Electric.  As of Thursday evening, the utility still had thousands of customers largely away from the shore region experiencing power delays.  Some of the power is not expected to be restored until Friday night, at …

Another brutal blow for the crews at Atlantic City Electric as the winter storm has knocked out power for well over 10,000 customers as of Thursday morning.  Many of the outages are reported in Cumberland, Atlantic, and Salem counties.  Only spotty power outages have been reported in Cape May County. …

Cumberland County got a lot more snow than Cape May County, and that means several larger schools are closed for the day on Thursday.  School districts including those in Bridgeton, Millville, Vineland, and Upper Deerfield are all closed on Thursday due to several inches of snow from Wednesday’s storm.

The number of power outages grew to over 10,000 Wednesday evening in the Atlantic City Electric territory.  Nearly all of Cape May County kept the lights on but major outages were reported north and west of Vineland.  Some of the estimated restoration times stretch into Thursday morning.

So far, the winter storm has not been terrible for Atlantic City Electric.  As of early Wednesday afternoon, there were 2,000 power outages reported by the utility with the majority of them northwest of Vineland.  Despite strong gusty winds, most of the power has stayed on in Cape May County.