Middle Township Police announced Friday afternoon that charges have been filed against a 13 year old student who brought a pellet-style gun to school on Friday. Police say the eighth grader was charged with unlawful possession of a weapon on school grounds, which is a third degree crime. The weapon was identified by police as…
Middle Township Police have identified the victim of Friday morning’s fatal fire in Rio Grande. Police have identified the victim as Phillip Padilla. Padilla was inside his home located at 3101 Route 9 South in Rio Grande early Friday morning when a fire started. The fire started in the kitchen and was due to unattended…
There’s a guarantee that at least one Cape May County school will capture a Cape Atlantic League Basketball title on Saturday. A girl-boy championship doubleheader will be played starting at Noon at Richard Stockton College and WCZT will carry both games live on the radio, and with a streaming video online at www.987thecoast.com. Game one…
Funeral services will be held on Tuesday in North Cape May for a 38 year old man who lost his life in a motor vehicle accident this week. Services for George Cremin of the Villas will be held at the Evoy Funeral Home next Tuesday mooring. Cremin was killed during a single vehicle accident on…
One leading republican in the state announced today that he’s not interested in challenging democratic United States Senator Cory Booker later this year. New Jersey Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli announced today that he will not run for the Senate. He says he would miss too much time with his children during the campaign season. Murray Sabrin,…
The investigation into a fire that killed a Middle Township man continues this afternoon. Township Police will have more information today about a house fire on King Street that killed a 51 year old man inside the building. The man was pulled from the house fire at 2:00am and could not be revived. Fire companies…
Middle Township Police Chief Chris Leusner and Cape May County Prosecutor Robert Taylor held a joint press conference this morning in Cape May Court House to discuss a situation involving an 8th grade student who brought an airsoft pellet gun to school today. It happened at the Middle School before 8:00am on Friday. The student…
A lockdown this morning at a Middle Township Middle School is over. Middle Township Police were alerted to a possible weapon inside a backpack of a student at 7:45am on Friday. Police and other personnel responded and schools in the district were placed into a lockdown situation. The gun was not a real weapon; it…
There is police activity at the Middle Township School District this morning. Various reports have local and state police responding to some sort of an incident at the Middle Township Middle School. The Cape May County Herald reports that the school went into lockdown shortly after 8am on Friday. Multiple local police districts have responded…
Another winter storm will visit New Jersey on Monday and forecasters believe our region will get everything from rain to sleet to freezing rain to snow. A big storm will dump up to a foot of snow in northern New Jersey on Monday, but for us, it starts as rain before changing to snow. How…