A 52-year-old Ventnor man arrested in February for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl, entered a guilty plea today to aggravated sexual assault and will be sentenced to seven years in prison, Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel stated. In accordance with the plea agreement, Pascual Lopez, who has no prior criminal record, must serve 85-percent of…
A Pleasantville man pleaded guilty on Monday to possession of a weapon by a convicted person for a November 2010 incident and will be sentenced to seven years in prison, Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel stated. Julius Hall, 30, must serve five years in prison before becoming eligible for parole. He was arrested on Main…
Thousands of people are without power in Cape May County, with the bulk of the outages coming in Middle Township and Stone Harbor. There is no word from Atlantic City Electric what has caused the power failure at this time. They estimate power will be returned around 1 p.m. The outages were first reported around…
Miss Gloucester County won the Miss New Jersey Pageant, held Saturday night in Ocean City. 20 year-old Katharyn Nicolle won the competition over 22 other contestants from throughout the state. Nicolle is a student at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. and will promote a service platform called “Reading for the Right Reason.” She won a…
The best known members of Bruce Springsteen’s E-Street band is dead. Clarence Clemons is dead from complications he had from a stroke he suffered about one week ago. Fans of the group showed up at the Stony Pony in Asbury Park to remember the musican. The club is a place where Springsteen and Clemons would…
Supporters of medical marijuana are asking, “what’s the hold up?” A press conference was held in Trenton on Friday against the delay being put on by Gov. Chris Christie to implement the program. Christie told NJN that the delay is because he wants to ensure the federal government won’t prosecute any members of the state…
The ferris wheel is now reopened at Morey’s Piers. There are new safety requirements added to the ride, which makes the new height requirement at 60 inches, compared to 54 inches previously. The response comes from the death of an 11-year-old girl from Pleasantville that fell off the ride to her death. An investigation showed…
A local Republican is going to help reshape the Congressional districts. Cape May County Freeholder Sue Sheppard has been named to the Congressional Redistricting Committee for New Jersey. The state just recently redrew its map for this year’s election; like wise a new map will be put together for Congressional districts by next year’s election.…
A student that just graduated Millville High School is now dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The News Of Cumberland County reports that Robert V. Hoffman III was found dead on Saturday morning. The Port Norris native was going to be entering the U.S. Army. A letter was written and the family released portions of…
A 53-year-old Camden County man entered guilty pleas on Friday to second-degree attempted sexual assault, second-degree attempted luring and third-degree attempted endangering the welfare of a child, for engaging in sexually explicit conversations and for sending sexually explicit webcam videos of himself to a Prosecutor’s Office detective posing as a 14-year-old girl, Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel stated. On…