A 52 year old Vineland man has been arrested on gun and drug charges after the suspect discharged a handgun during a domestic dispute. Miguel Lopez of East Oak Road fired the gun inside a residence on North 2nd Street. He was jailed over the weekend on $200,000 cash bail.
New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney is demanding both hospitals and insurance companies provide details about the pure profits they make in our state. Sweeney says it’s time to bring health care costs under control in New Jersey and he wants to see how much money both sides are earning. Insurance companies say they will…
Millions of New Jersey commuters are breathing easy Monday morning..there will be no New Jersey Transit rail strike. Both sides reached a new contract agreement on Friday night, and union spokesman Stephen Burkert says the “crisis has been averted”. Government officials are spending the weekend reviewing details of the new agreement.
Lower Township Republicans selected their candidates for the November elections Thursday night. Third Ward Council Member Erik Simonsen will be running for mayor of the township along with Frank Sipple for township council. Simonsen, who first took office in 2011, told Coastal Broadcasting, “I’m about getting things done, and that’s what I’ve done while I’ve been…
An early morning condo fire in North Wildwood has been quickly brought under control. Local police confirm that the fire at 11th Ave. & JFK Blvd. was reported at 7:48 a.m. Friday and was brought under control in less than one hour. No injuries were reported.
A Cumberland County grand jury has indicted a 33 year-old Millville man for the murder of another Millville man on September 5th. Octavian Robinson has been charged with murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses in the shooting death of 41 year-old Diante Broughton, who was shot four times in the chest and later died at a…
Friday marks the seven-year anniversary of the disappearance of a 21 year-old Ocean City man. It was 2009 when John Weisbecker went missing from his home on Asbury Avenue. Weisbecker’s mother has not given up hope that she will someday know what happened to her son. Investigators continue to follow all leads and utilize every…
Another problem with the dredging project in Stone Harbor. The Press of Atlantic City reports that the dredging project was suspended again thanks to two geotubes rupturing that were filled with water and dredge material. Stone Harbor is dewatering the material in these tubes at a municipal parking lot that borders Avalon.
Cape May has a new tax assessor. Louis Belasco was hired by the city this month to replace Mike Jones, who is retiring. Belasco will complete Jones’ term through the end of June and then be appointed to a new four year term which will run through 2020. Belasco previously served as Business Administrator in…
It’s 15 months in prison for a Ventnor man who was involved in a scheme involving timeshare agreements. 52 year old Steven Cox admitted that he participated in a plan to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars through timeshares. He participated in a scam run by Vacation Ownership Group based in Mays Landing and Egg…