The Cape May County Office of Emergency Management has issued a Code Blue Alert for the county. The alert is in effect through Friday at 6:00pm. Temperatures will not hit 30 degrees on Thursday and Friday, and strong winds will make it feel much colder. The advisory alerts communities that there may be people who…
Some additional construction will be coming to the Lafayette Street Bridge in Cape May in February. Cape May County Engineer Dale Foster announced that the project will resume in two months on what is known locally as the Schellenger Landing Bridge. The inbound lane will be closed for repairs, and the work should be completed…
A major drug bust in Middle Township. Cape May County Prosecutor Bob Taylor and Middle Township Police Chief Chris Leusner announced that two Whitesboro residents have been arrested and charged with distributing methamphetamine. 37 year old Jennifer R. Bailey and 60 year old Claudio F. Bailey were arrested on December 13th following a search warrant…
A Millville cop who was fired from his job will not be getting it back. The Daily Journal reports that Edmund D. Ansara has lost his appeal to get his job back. Ansara was fired for allegedly violating state laws and police regulations two years ago. The Office of Administrative Law upheld the city’s decision.
The closure of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City had an impact on Atlantic City’s gaming numbers. New figures released this week show the casinos took in $197.3 million during the month of November, which is a 3.5 percent dip from the same month last year. The big reason? The Taj Mahal closed its…
A 41 year old man from Egg Harbor Township has been arrested after police seized 178 packets of heroin from his home. Daniel T. Parrish was charged with heroin possession and distribution offenses. Township Police say the heroin was recovered from his Pleasant Woods home. Parrish was held in the Atlantic County Jail on $20,000…
An attempted house raising effort in Wildwood went wrong on Tuesday and a man suffered multiple injuries in the incident. The Wildwood Fire Department reports that a man was partially pinned under water while attempting to raise a home located on West Rio Grande Avenue in the city. The Press of Atlantic City reports that…
New Jersey is the worst state in the country in terms of preventing kids from smoking. The Tobacco Free Kids Campaign says New Jersey allocates zero funding to prevent kids from smoking, for the fifth year in a row. Cigarette smoking has been on a decline among middle school and high school students in the…
The death rate for heroin is much higher than the national average. NJ.com reports that the death rate in 2015 was 2.5 times the average in the United States. Those deaths that included Fentanyl in the drug, which is an extremely more powerful mixture included in some heroin, killed more than double the national average…
A man was found to have skimmed over $7 million from ATM’s in the state. The U.S. Attorney’s office announced the arrest of Robert Mate, a Romanian national. The majority of the banks targeted were in Monmouth and Ocean counties, but also included some other North Jersey counties. Mate is alleged to have conspired with…
