RECORD SET IN CAMDEN GUN BUYBACK

The City of Camden had scheduled a gun buyback program for this past weekend, before the tragic school shooting in Connecticut. Residents turned in over 1,100 weapons, breaking the previous record of 700 weapons collected in Essex County in 2009. Among those weapons turned in were sawed-off shotguns, fully automatic weapons, and a rifle used…

ROMANO OUT AS VINELAND MAYOR

The city of Vineland held their runoff election on Tuesday and voted in a new mayor. Former city councilman Ruben Bermudez was chosen over incumbent Mayor Robert Romano by a vote of 5,094 to 3,962. Bermudez will be the first-ever Hispanic mayor of Vineland. All five members of his slate for city council also won in Tuesday’s…