Tom Mongelli
Manchester Trick or Treat on Halloween, October 31
If Manchester is your home, costumed kids with goody bags to fill will ring your doorbell on Halloween Day, Monday, October 31.
Booms and flashes during Earle maneuvers this week
The noise level rises this week during training exercises near Naval Weapons Station Earle, and there'll be some accents of light as well.
Route 72 Thorofare Bridges go single-file each way Monday
It'll be a tight squeeze until spring between Long Beach Island and the mainland.
Killer klown kulprits kollared in Ocean County
Two young Ocean County girls, who allegedly capitalized on crazed-clown mania by spreading fear on social media in separate incidents, face false public alarm charges.
Creepy clown canard canned in Toms River
Don't bother to "send in the clowns." Rumors to the contrary, creepy clowns have not invaded Toms River, but the calls to police and schools forces the township's top cop to take some action.
Federal charges filed against NJ bomb suspect
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the prime suspect tied to bombs this past weekend in Seaside Heights, New York City and Elizabeth, now faces federal criminal charges filed in Manhattan.
New employee skill training options open in Lakewood
LAKEWOOD - Business operators, looking for ways to help employees improve their skills, are likely to find valuable and economical opportunities in a unique program developed at Ocean County College in Toms River.
Rabid bat discovered in Cherry Hill
A bat taken from the basement of a Cherry Hill house, where children were playing, has tested positive for rabies, according to the Camden County Health Department.
Road paint prankster sought in Waretown
If spray-painting an improvised left-turn lane onto a Waretown street is a joke of some kind, police aren't laughing. They might have charges waiting for whoever wielded the spray can.
Hermine strips Brick Township beach wall, ocean access limited
BRICK TOWNSHIP - Sand erosion and unsafe conditions around the township's steel beach wall forces closure of access points to the ocean beaches south of Beach Three.
Blame the geese: Ocean County Park swim beach closes for season
The beach at Ocean County Park in Lakewood has become such a late-summer hit with Canada geese, that county officials opt to close it to swimming for the season a week ahead of schedule.
Nine new defendants in ongoing Superstorm fund fraud probe
Two Ocean County residents, and a Toms River motel owner who lives in Edison, are among nine new arrestees, accused by New Jersey investigators with pirating federal Superstorm relief worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.