Summer break is interrupted for lawmakers in Trenton on Thursday. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has called lawmakers back to the statehouse on Thursday to discuss proposed legislation that would reform bail laws in the Garden State. The plan has bipartisan support, but not in the entire state. Lawmakers in the southern portion of New…
Lower Township Police today confirmed that they responded to the threat of a suicide in a neighborhood in North Cape May on Wednesday. Police are telling us today that a 46 year old man threatened his own life in a house located in the 200 block of Roseann Avenue. The man was eventually coaxed out…
In a 420-5 vote, the House of Representatives voted to provide sweeping changes to the Veteran’s Affairs organization. The main thing locally would allow veterans to seek treatment from doctors and hospitals locally, rather than having to travel long distances to reach a VA Facility. Congressman Frank LoBiondo had been one of the louder proponents…
Lower Township Police responded to quiet neighborhood in North Cape May Wednesday afternoon after a resident of a home said he was going to hurt himself. Police responded to a home at Deborah Lane and Roseanne Avenue Wednesday afternoon and eventually led the man away from his home shortly after 4pm. The man came outside…
73 year old Al Nelson of Pleasantville was killed during a motor vehicle accident in Hamilton Township on Wednesday morning. Township police say Nelson was killed when his vehicle crossed the center line of Route 322, went up an embankment, and struck several trees. Nelson was driving a delivery truck at the time of the…
Stone Harbor Police made an arrest following a fight between two teenagers over another teenage girl. Police say 19 year old Ervin Collazo Jr. of Langhorne, PA fled from the cops after they responded to a fight on a balcony at a house on 84th Street on Tuesday. Collazo ran from the cops and was…
There’s a big snake..a very big snake..on the loose in the Villas section of Lower Township. Animal control officers in the community have received complaints of a big python or boa constrictor snake that’s on the loose in the community. The snake was first spotted about a week ago, and animal control believes it either…
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says he will look into problems arising from flood insurance following Hurricane Sandy. Craig Fugate told Senators in Washington that he will look into issues first raised by United States Senator Robert Menendez. Menendez says too many New Jersey homeowners are waiting far too long to get…
An extensive investigation has led to the arrest for five for stealing $150,000. Over the past several days, at various locations, investigators arrested Dwayne Morgan, 20, of Pleasantville, Izyiah Plummer, 19, of Atlantic City, Monique Kelly, 19, of Pleasantville, Aaron Evans, 23, of Pleasantville, and Lance Rogers, 20, of Atlantic City. The investigation was headed by…
A bomb threat was reported in Wildwood at the 7-11 next to the Island Bowl. No injuries were reported. Authorities were called to the scene prior to 2 p.m., according to the Wildwood Leader. According to the report, the threat was made on the phone to the store itself. Other details at this time are…