The name of the victim in a shooting in Bridgeton has been released. Bridgeton Police have identified the homicide victim on York St. which occurred on July 4th, 2015 as 24 year old Wayne Height. Height recently moved to Bridgeton from Asbury Park, NJ and has lived in Fairfield Township, NJ and most recently York…
Bridgeton police and investigators from the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old Fairfield Twp. man in the 100-block of York St. Saturday night. According to police, they were summoned to a residence following 911 calls of a gunshot victim at approximately 10 PM and found the victim inside among…
A huge jump in the county tax rate in Cumberland County in just one year. The Cumberland County Freeholders met Thursday afternoon and approved a new budget that increases the county tax rate by nearly six cents. The budget was approved during a 4-3 vote. Property taxes will cover nearly three quarters of the county’s…
A new Athletic Director has been selected for Wildwood High School and will assume the office this week. The Wildwood Leader reports that 32 year-old Travis LaFerriere was chosen to replace Phil Schaffer, who was recently promoted to principal from the AD position. LaFerriere was approved last week as Wildwood High’s new athletic director and assistant vice…
The New Jersey State Police is seeking the public’s assistance with locating a missing child. Claudia “Lupita” Brunley, 16, white female, 5’5″, 130 pounds, brown hair, brown eyes, medium complexion, was last seen at 30 Holly Drive, Bridgeton at 1 a.m. Anyone with information that can assist in helping safely locate Claudia Brunley is asked…
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that a videotaped police interview with a Vineland man accused of killing his 5-month-old daughter cannot be used as evidence during trial because the accused was not read his rights beforehand. In June of 2012 Terell L. Hubbard was indicted for aggravated manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a…
A Vineland man made off with a cheesecake from a restaurant in the city. Police there say they arrested Wilbor L. Doss Jr. with burglary, theft, criminal mischief, and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police say the man was caught after an alarm went off at the Maplewood Restaurant and the man on property was carrying…
The former leader of the Cumberland County republican party has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Robert Greco was in a Cape May County court on Friday and pleaded guilty to charges that he swindled nearly $150,000 from the account of an elderly resident at a nursing home that Greco owned. Greco could have faced up…
A 21-year-old Vineland man was killed early Friday morning when his car struck a tree. Vineland Police reported that Juan Alverio-Rivera was driving west on Landis Avenue at a high rate of speed and crashed into a tree at about 1:40 a.m. Alverio-Rivera, was pronounced dead at the scene and his passenger was airlifted to Cooper Medical…
Next month a major shop in Vineland will be shutting down, according to a new report. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the Amish Market in Vineland will be closing as of July 25. The market first opened in 2011 and brought a lot of attention to Vineland. The Press of Atlantic City couldn’t…