The Cape May City Council will hold a special meeting Monday evening to talk about potential redevelopment in the city. Mayor Chuck Lear will Holst the meeting which will include a special consultant. Monday night’s meeting is separate from the regular Cape May meeting schedule.
There was a single winning ticket sold for Saturday night’s Powerball jackpot, but chances are you don’t have it. The winning ticket for the $245 million drawing was sold in Staten Island. A $2 million prize went to a Florida resident. The Powerball jackpot had not been hit in nearly two months.
This is the week where you must dial 609 in order to make a local phone call. Starting Saturday, you must dial the area code even for a call next door thanks to the new 640 area code that is coming to our region. Next month, new phone customers in Cape May County could be…
A 34 year old man who escaped from Cumberland County Department of Corrections officers is being sought. State Police announced they are looking for David Riley who fled on foot without handcuffs in Upper Deerfield Township over the weekend. Police say Riley is considered to be armed and dangerous; they have released a photo of…
A 52 year old Middle Township man has pleaded guilty to a count of aggravated manslaughter following the stabbing of another man at a Rio Grande Motel in 2017. Herbert Tozer will receive a prison sentence of between ten and 30 years for the crime. The stabbing took place at the Country Motel on Route…
Ocean City and Sea Isle City have extended their agreement for a shared business administrator. George Savastano will hold down the job in both communities through the end of June, 2022. Ocean City Mayor Jay Gillian says Savastano has been very effective with budget control and capital project management.
The reward fund continues to grow as authorities search for two men who ambushed and shot two officers in Camden during National Night Out last week. The reward has been upped to $60,000 for information that leads to the arrests of the two suspects. The two officers were released from the hospital. A surveillance photo…
Another serious accident involving a school bus on a major New Jersey highway. This time it happened Saturday afternoon on the New Jersey Turnpike as a school bus flipped onto a guardrail. 42 people were on the bus and taken to hospitals; none of the injuries appeared to be life threatening.
The manhunt continued over the weekend for the suspect accused of fatally shooting a volunteer football coach near a school in Millville last week. Authorities over the weekend released a photo of the alleged getaway car that left the shooting the claimed the life of 37 year old Joseph L. Jones. Jones was shot to…
Two people were injured during a helicopter accident in Ocean City Friday morning. Authorities say the chopper had an instructor pilot and a student on board. It was practicing take offs and landings on the west side of the Ocean City Municipal Airport when it crashed; no word on what caused the accident.