On Friday, Rutgers University President Robert Barchi held a one-hour press conference about the firing of the men’s basketball coach and resignation of the athletic director. On Monday, Barchi is scheduled to hold a town hall meeting at the school’s Newark campus. Many students, alumni and faculty members are not happy with the way Barchi handled the scandal…
Atlantic City Police report weekend arrests of 18 people in a prostitution bust. Working along with the Absecon and Galloway Township Police Departments, Atlantic City cops entered high prostitution areas of the city late Friday night into Saturday morning and arrested seventeen women and one man. Fourteen of those arrested are from New Jersey, the other four are from…
The investigation continues into the discovery of two bodies inside a hotel room at the Revel Casino on Sunday. Atlantic City Police confirm the body of a 56 year old man and a 21 year old woman were found in a room located on the seventh floor of the casino on Sunday afternoon by a…
The humidity in recent days has been bone dry, and that’s fueled some forest fires throughout the state of New Jersey. More than 150 acres burned in the Wharton State Forest in South Jersey over the weekend due to the dry conditions; other forest fires were reported in all parts of the state. The outdoor…
North Wildwood is moving closer towards a much-needed beach fill project. The Wildwood Leader reports that the city anticipates a beach fill project that will be wrapped up during the middle part of June. Last week council could not award the contract because the city must first allocate funds for the beach fill through a…
South end residents of Ocean City have complained loudly, and the city has listened. Ocean City will begin trucking sand to the south end beaches to extend the beach starting this week. Some sand from elsewhere on the city’s beach will be brought to the south end while more sand will be trucked in from…
The reconstruction project to eliminate the traffic lights on the Garden State Parkway in Cape May County will cause the roadway to be shut down this week during the overnight hours. Here is a schedule of where road crews are planning to be working. Traffic will be diverted to Route 9 during the closures. Sections…
Finally, a break in the weather for South Jersey. The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures exceeding 70 degrees for some mainland parts of South Jersey over the next three days. Warmer air from the south is pushing into our region which will put temperatures into the 70s on the mainland and near 70 at…
Nothing new developed over the weekend regarding the whereabouts of 24 year old Josh Catlett, a commercial fisherman who was lost at sea last week during the capsizing of a crabbing boat. The New Jersey State Police believes the boat became snagged on something underwater which caused it to capsize, tossing three into the water…
A group of concerned citizens who are fed up with FEMA’s new flood maps held a meeting in Ventnor on Saturday. “Stop FEMA Now” held an organizational meeting and openly discussed the new problems with the flood elevation maps that may require thousands of properties at the shore to elevate, or absorb high flood insurance…