State Police are searching for the driver of a Blue Ford Explorer that was involved in a hit-and-run accident Tuesday night in Buena. Police report that a 21-year-old pedestrian was critically injured when he was struck by the SUV at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday night in front of the Buena Regional Middle School on Weymouth Road. The victim…
A 60 year-old man who cheated repeatedly at the craps tables in Atlantic City lost his appeal on Tuesday for his 17-year prison sentence. Derek Bethea worked his scam at the Borgata, Resorts and the former Revel casinos by placing bets after the winning numbers were called and collecting on those bogus bets. Bethea’s cheating…
A two-month investigation ended in arrests of six people on drug charges in Atlantic City on Tuesday. The city’s SWAT team acted on a search warrant for a rooming house on North Pennsylvania Avenue and seized more than $10,000 worth of raw heroin and cocaine. Five of the six suspects arrested were from Atlantic City…
Three sea turtles being kept at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine were sent to a North Carolina aquarium on Sunday morning, including the 300-pound female found on the Avalon beach in September. Bob Schoelkopf, founding director of the center, said the Avalon loggerhead sea turtle would be transferred to the Karen Beasley Sea…
Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian dressed up as George Washington on Halloween as he participated in a Trunk or Treat event attended by 3,000 children. Tuesday the state is scheduled to decide whether or not to accept the city’s fiscal recovery plan. Mayor Guardian compared the city’s struggle with the state to the Revolutionary War.…
The saga of the Absecon Island dune project continues, as attorneys for five Margate homeowners are filing a lawsuit to stop the state’s dune project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has two bids on the project to build dunes for protection of beachfront areas of Longport, Margate and southern Ventnor. The state plans to start…
A group of about 40 people rallied outside the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office in Mays Landing Monday morning to protest the heroin and opiate overdose epidemic in Atlantic County. The group, called Stop the Heroin, was led by Tammy Schmincke of Egg Harbor Township, who co-founded the organization with her husband Bill, lost their son…
A 37-year-old woman died Sunday evening after the car in which she was riding with her family crashed into a utility pole in Egg Harbor Township. Marie Roe of EHT was a passenger in the front seat of a 1999 Ford Taurus when the driver lost control of the car and it spun off the…
It was on Oct. 29th, 2015, when shots rang out at a Pleasantville Jokers football practice field, next to a youth football game where stands were filled with parents and children. Initially there were no reports of anyone being shot, but a short time later a shooting victim showed up at a local hospital. Police…
Halloween would be a great day top top off your car’s gas tank, as New Jersey’s 23 cents per gallon gas tax takes effect on Tuesday. You won’t get any extra time by visiting the Sunoco gas stations on the state’s toll roads. Those stations typically adjust their rates only once a week, on Fridays.…