Dude doesn’t even look like a lady. 59 year old Stephen Wojciehowski of Stafford Township has been charged with lewdness after he wore plastic wrap around his body to represent a bikini. Police say he spent two days on the beach wearing the mock ladies’ swimsuit with his private parts clearly showing. He was released…
Vineland plans to borrow $25 million for the construction of a new police building. The new building will be located on Palm Street across from the current police building that has stood for a half century. The old police building will be turned into a municipal parking lot.
An Egg Harbor Township man has been indicted on charges connected to a brutal attack that occurred in Pleasantville last year. Atlantic County Prosecutor Diane Ruberton announced that 27 year old Nicholas A. Abbati was arrested in connection with the attack on two adults inside their home. Abbati is charged with various offenses and is…
Expect to pay more for gasoline, and soon. Governor Christie and democratic leaders in Trenton have reached an agreement to raise the state’s gas tax by 23 cents per gallon in order to finance the Transportation Trust Fund. The tax will generate $16 billion for various transportation projects over eight years. The gas tax increase…
With two months remaining in the hurricane season, Hurricane Matthew has been upgraded to a Category 3 storm in the central Caribbean Sea. Mathew has sustained winds of 115 mph and is headed for Jamaica, parts of Hispañola, eastern Cuba, and the Bahamas by early next week. It is still way too early to tell how the…
On Thursday night a tow truck slammed into the basement wall of a home on the Black Horse Pike in West Atlantic City. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the tow truck slid off the road and ran through 20 feet of yard before smashing into the home of Mohammed Rahim, just below the…
The Wildwood Sons of Italy Olde Time Italian Festival scheduled for this Friday and Saturday has been cancelled due to the rainy weather. The fund-raising event organizers told Coastal Broadcasting that vendors were canceling and the site at Fox Park was flooded and muddy. Charlie Gracie, who was scheduled to perform at the festival will…
An apartment building in Atlantic City on S. Raleigh Ave. was evacuated Thursday night after a partial wall collapse. A section of a curtain wall on the south side of the third floor collapsed at about 8 p.m., causing officials to evacuate three of the four apartments in the building. No injuries were reported and the building…
The Environmental Protection Agency discovered arsenic in grounds near the Vineland Chemical Co. Superfund site and will require an additional $15 million to cleanup the problem. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the EPA has spent nearly $220 million since 1992 to remove arsenic from the soil and groundwater from the chemical company’s site…
The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Watch and a Coastal Flood Advisory for Cape May, Cumberland and Atlantic Counties for Friday. The Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 4 p.m. today and the Coastal Flood Advisory runs from 7 a.m. until noon. The forecast calls for rain through the weekend that…