An Atlantic City teen, who was charged as a juvenile in the double homicide of two Pleasantville teens has been waived up to criminal court. The Atlantic City Police Department apprehended Abubaka Brown, now 18, for the murders of 19-year-old Taron Williams and 13-year-old Todd Mitchell back in April. Brown was initially charged as a…
The first offers are being made in the state to buyout homeowners willing to move following Hurricane Sandy. The Christie Administration announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded nearly $29.5 million in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funding for the voluntary acquisition of 129 homes in Sayreville. These homes are part of the Administration’s…
When you hear tornado warning, you usually think it can’t happen here. Well the latest tornado hit the northeast on Monday. This time the tornado struck down in Union County. A couple of weeks back a tornado briefly touched down in Delaware. A number of tornado watches have been posted in South Jersey this year,…
Wildwood Crest’s outgoing municipal clerk swore in the new municipal clerk. Jan Holzmer was sworn in as the new municipal clerk for the Borough of Wildwood Crest by outgoing clerk/administrator Kevin Yecco during a ceremony on Monday. During that same ceremony, Patricia Feketics was sworn in as deputy municipal clerk. Yecco announced his retirement a…
It is a “new Rutgers” according to Gov. Chris Christie. Christie was on hand for the final merger between University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and Rutgers University. As apart of the merger, Rowan University will now control UMDNJ’s School of Osteopathic Medicine in Camden County. Christie has touted the restructuring of higher education…
Remember when the state kept missing revenue projections? Well for six straight months in a row the state has been beating its projections. New numbers released by the state show that the state is beating the modified projections Gov. Chris Christie put together earlier in the year. As of right now, the state is slightly…
At Monday’s Lower Township Council meting, Mayor Michael Beck took on Cape May City Council on their efforts to change the funding formula for the Lower Cape May Regional High School. Beck wanted to send a clear message that Lower Township would fight Cape May’s initiative and not allow it’s residents to have their taxes…
Ocean City Council selected a new council president at their reorganization meeting on Monday. The Ocean City Gazette reports that Tony Wilson, 3rd Ward City Councilman, will serve as council president for the upcoming year. The new Vice President of council will be at-large Councilman Michael Allegretto, who had been council president for the…
Atlantic City Police responded to three separate shots fired calls within 90 minutes on Monday night. The first incident occurred at around 9:15 p.m. when a woman reported an assault inside a Drexel Avenue home. Police confiscated a loaded shotgun and took three people into custody for questioning. At about 10:10 p.m. shots were fired…
Tuesday at 4 p.m. the Cumberland County Fair will open for the week at the county fairgrounds in Millville. Cumberland County’s Fair is the oldest in the state, with it’s origin in 1695 in Greenwich Township. The event was held in Bridgeton for the first half of the 20th century, before moving to it’s present…