Lane closures are coming to Route 55 thanks to some major work being done on bridges along the South Jersey highway. Nearly $2 million will be spent to repair some of the bridges along Route 55 over the next three months. Ten bridges will be repaired within Millville and Vineland, according to state officials. Damage…
Three people were seriously injured during a head on traffic collision in Galloway Township early Saturday morning. Police say it happened on Wrangleboro Road when a vehicle drive by 21 year old Anthonee Waterford-Williams crossed the center line of traffic and hit another vehicle. All three involved in the accident were wearing seat belts; the…
There was more than a Victoria Secret shopping bag found inside a car near a northern New Jersey mall over the weekend. Authorities recovered 145 kilograms of cocaine during a traffic stop at the Clifton Commons Mall on Saturday. The vehicle had just arrived from a storage facility in Pennsylvania. No word yet on the…
A dolphin that made its way into a river in northern New Jersey died over the weekend. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center reports that the dolphin first spotted last Wednesday in the South River in Old Bridge died despite efforts to coax the dolphin to swim towards the Raritan Bay. The dolphin was older and…
A Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City aircrew reunited with Damian Sexton and his family at Coast Guard Station Atlantic City on Wednesday. Sexton was medevaced by the aircrew Sunday from the 39-foot recreational vessel, the Sea Robin, approximately 44 miles east of Cape May. After being thrown from his boat in rough seas, Sexton…
Officials have identified a body found Friday morning near Sandy Hook as a man who went missing while swimming on Wednesday. Federal parks authorities identified the man as 25 year-old Andros Vega-Pena of Red Bank, who was swimming with a group of people Wednesday evening at Beach B when he came into distress, according to…
On Thursday night a 45-year-old Egg Harbor City woman was killed in a three-car accident on the White Horse Pike (Route 30) near Carton Avenue in Galloway Township. Police said Kay Campbell was extricated from her vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene at about 9:16 p.m. Galloway Township police said she was driving west on…
The Wildwood fireworks won’t be taking place on Friday night. With the chance of rain and wind in the forecast the decision has been made to move the weekly fireworks to Sunday night at 10 p.m.
The midseason tourism report card is positive on the whole by the Cape May County Tourism Department. Traffic to the shore is up about 5 percent overall and the occupancy tax is up for the entire year about 9 percent. The biggest negative has been a declining Canadian population traveling to the shore. The exchange…
A Thursday evening accident involved a single vehicle in Hamilton Township. The early investigation found that Nicholas Taylor, of Mays Landing, was traveling north on New York Ave. when the vehicle left the roadway on the northbound shoulder. The vehicle continued a short distance across the northbound shoulder and came to an uncontrolled position of…