An 80-foot fishing boat sank off the coast of New Jersey, and all three men on board the boat were rescued by the crew of another boat. The incident occurred Monday morning about 40 miles off the coast of Sandy Hook. Three men on board the “Lady Gertrude” were able to make it into a…
Funeral services have been set for William F. Howarth, one of the most celebrated lifeguard in recent South Jersey history. Howarth passed away on Saturday at the age of 61 after serving 48 years as a member of the Ventnor Beach Patrol. Howarth was also a retired firefighter who also was a prior state swimming…
Another week, another computer glitch for the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission. The Commission announced this morning that another computer problem forced some people to wait a long time this morning for routine motor vehicle transactions. The issue appears to be with a computer mainframe that is shared with other departments throughout the State.
The head of the Philadelphia mob is free on $5 million bail. Joey Merlino was freed on Friday after posting bail. Merlino has many ties to the shore area especially in Atlantic County. He will have to live at his Florida home and keep an ankle bracelet on at all times.
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has extended the comment period until Monday, for customer feedback on alleged poor land-line service by Verizon in rural areas of South Jersey. There was a request for statewide hearings by the BPU, made by several groups who attended the public hearings on August 4th in Estelle Manor.…
Gov. Christie says he wants the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the case to allow sports betting in New Jersey. On Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled against the state’s challenge to a federal ban on sports betting in New Jersey. State legislators passed a bill in 2014 that would allow regulated sports betting…
Macy’s has 675 stores nationwide…and 100 of them are closing. The department store chain announced that it will be closing 15 percent of its retail locations, but has not announced which stores are on the chopping block. There are six Macy’s located in southern New Jersey, one at the Hamilton Mall.
Assemblyman Vince Mazzeo will be introducing a bill to give school nurses responsibility for administering the opioid antidote Narcan in case of an overdose. The N.J. Department of Education recommended that Narcan be included in school district emergency response kits, while the new bill would make it mandatory. According to a press release from Mazzeo,…
Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto does not believe an override of Governor Christie on a stalemate that has halted dozens of transportation projects is viable. Prieto says it’s time for he, Senate President Steve Sweeney, and the Governor to get into the same room and hash out a deal once and for all. Many essential transportation…
Governor Chris Christie lied about who was involved in the Bridgegate scandal. That’s according to Christina Renna, the former director of Christie’s intergovernmental affairs affairs. Court filings on the case were released on Wednesday and they show a text from Renna saying that Christie lied about the involvement of the bridge shutdown by senior staff…