A Vineland man has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident. Police say that Pablo Contreras is facing the charges from the Thursday incident. The accident occurred at Delsea Drive and Elmer Road. Both drivers were treated for minor injuries. Contreras was found at a home on the 1900 block of South Delsea…
A new report says New Jersey remains one of the best places to raise a kid. The Kids Count report was released and the state came in fifth in the country. New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Minnesota all came ahead of the Garden State. The study is performed annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation,…
A 6 year-old boy who was reported missing by his mother at 1:35 a.m. Sunday was found unharmed at about 9 a.m. in a spare room of an Atlantic City apartment building. The boy’s mother left him in the care of another tenant in the building in the 3900 block of Ventnor Avenue. When she…
On Saturday two corrections officers were killed when their motorcycles were struck by a car. The two men were killed around 7:50 p.m. on Saturday on Route 40 in Carney’s Point, when a car struck them while trying to cross the highway. Derrick Sulton, 42, of Bridgeton and George Jackson II, 31, of Pittsgrove Township,…
An Absecon man was injured on Saturday while trying to save his dog from a pit bull attack. Two pit bulls knocked down the screen door at the home of 73 year-old Louis and Linda Nell and attacked the family dog. In his unsuccessful attempt to save his golden retriever, Nell was bitten on the…
A Pennsylvania man was arrested by North Wildwood Police while allegedly committing a car robbery early Saturday morning. Police caught 19 year-old Jared Brown at about 3 a.m. Saturday morning and charged him with multiple car thefts. Brown is accused of stealing phone chargers and GPS devices from several cars. He was charged with burglary,…
The Atlantic City SWAT Team arrested two men and one juvenile on Sunday morning after a Saturday night carjacking in the city. Police arrested 19 year-old Austin Clark at a home on the 500 block of Robinson Avenue. Clark was a suspect in several shootings and an armed carjacking. He is being held on a…
Democrats are making one final ditch at pointing Gov. Chris Christie in the hot seat for holding separate elections for the U.S. Senate seat and the general elections. Christie decided after the passing of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg to hold a special election on Oct. 16 for the seat. If Christie had waited another couple…
New polling numbers suggest if the weather holds, it will be a good summer at the shore. Rutgers-Eagleton released a poll before the weekend showing that two out of every three state residents plan on visiting the shore this year and of those who typically visit, 77 percent of them will visit for as long…
Gov. Chris Christie should have one week to sign his name to a budget document. Both the Senate and Assembly are expected to pass the $32.9 billion budget document on Monday, with one week to spare from the June 30 deadline. Negotiations took place over the past few weeks to find a budget that works…