This summer Stockton University continues it’s expansion with a $48 million expansion of new classrooms, a science building and a new campus entrance. Meanwhile, the $156 million Atlantic City campus is about to begin construction of 500 housing units, a parking garage and another academic building. The Atlantic City additions are expected to be open…
The Atlantic City Recovery Committee will hold it’s first monthly public meeting Tuesday night in City Council Chambers to reveal the latest update on the city’s new fiscal plan. In May the New Jersey Legislature charged Atlantic City to come up with a solution to their financial crisis by November 3rd, or face a takeover…
The fourth suspect in a November kidnapping and murder in Pleasantville has been captured by Atlantic City police after a car chase Sunday night. Marshall Coley, 27, was recognized by a tipster as a passenger in a car driven by 26 year-old Latoya Golden, and nabbed by police after a 15 minute car chase that…
Two teenagers were injured when their ATV overturned Saturday night in a Hamilton Township sand pit. Kolin Roberts, 18, of Somers Point, lost control of the ATV and it flipped, throwing both he and his 16 year-old passenger from the vehicle. Both riders were wearing helmets and were taken to the hospital with undisclosed injuries.…
A ground breaking was held in Buena for a $50 million expansion project for a local pharmaceutical company. The Toronto-based Teligent Inc. will expand their manufacturing and packaging capabilities with the new 110,000 square foot facility and plans to quadruple their output. The new plant will create new jobs and is projected to be completed in…
Longtime local radio host Howard Berger has died just one week before turning 90. Berger covered events in Atlantic City from the opening of the casinos to decades of reports on the Miss America Pageant. Berger published his memoirs of 32 years in broadcasting in 2013. His family said he was in failing health the…
Atlantic City Police have arrested a total of five men in two separate drug busts for heroin. On Thursday police seized 277 bags of heroin and arrested 26 year-old Dupree Holloway and 28 year-old Dominic White at a traffic stop. On Friday three men were arrested for possession of cocaine and 297 bags of heroin during…
Two people are dead following a single vehicle accident on the Garden State Parkway early Saturday morning in Atlantic County. State Police say dive teams pulled two people from a vehicle that went off the Mullica Bridge in Port Republic; both did not survive. The accident occurred around 1:30am in the southbound lanes of the…
The search and subsequent capture of an escaped convict last month will cost Barnegat Township about $30,000. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the capture of 38 year-old of Arthur Buckel, who escaped from the Bayside Prison Unit at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital on May 3rd, will fall on the local taxpayers. The New Jersey…
The latest budget proposal introduced by the New Jersey Legislature includes an extra $4 million in aid to Stockton University. The boost in revenue comes just as the rating for Stockton bonds was downgraded from A-plus to A by Fitch Ratings, and down to Baa1 from A3 by Moody’s. Officials at the university said the…