An arrest has been made in connection with a bank robbery in Ocean City last week. Authorities announced that 42 year old Bruce Higgins Jr. of Herndon, Virginia is the man who robbed a branch of TD Bank in the city on December 15th. Higgins was arrested after entering a branch of the same bank…
Wildwood is moving forward with a plan to cap a landfill site and develop the back bay portion of the city. The City Commission met last week and approved a deal with Back Bay, LLC to create infrastructure at the site. Commissioner Pete Byron voted against the proposal, suggesting the project should have gone out…
Vineland Police have arrested six adults after two separate drug raids last week. City police say they conducted separate raids at homes located on North Seventh Street and on East Pear Street and rounded up the adults; they found drugs and weapons during the arrests. All were sent to the Cumberland County Jail.
A teenage girl was killed over the weekend when she fell from an overpass on the Garden State Parkway and was struck by traffic. State Police say it’s unclear why the 15 year old girl was on the overpass before she fell onto the Parkway in Nutley. The incident occurred at milepost 151.1; she was…
A proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour is dead until at least 2018. Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto says democrats have given up on their fight to get the wage increased; they will try again when a new governor takes office in 2018. Business groups oppose the wage hike saying the…
Democrats in Trenton are starting to line up to wage a war against a controversial bill endorsed by Governor Christie that would allow towns to pull legal notices from newspapers and put them on their websites. Some democrats say the bill is pure vindictiveness taken by the Governor against the newspapers. Many town officials say…