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Baby in NJ dies after being left in 100-degree parked car
LAKEWOOD — An infant died Monday afternoon after being left inside a vehicle on one of the hottest days of the year, according to the Ocean County Proseuctor's Office. Prosecutor Bradley Billihimer said Lakewood police were notified about a child in cardiac arrest outside the Kollel Cheshek Shlomo on New Egypt Road around 1:45 p.m.
Talk of Delmarva Fishing Report 07/18/24
Wednesday was cooler at the beach, but fishing was also cooler. At Lewes Harbour Marina the report was a slow day on the Angler with only some croaker to show for the day’s catch. A few private boats went out in the bay and managed to scratch out a few black drum, tog and sheepshead.
N.J. library gets free internet in settlement with Optimum Cable over poor service
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include a statement from Altice USA. Dunellen and nine other communities reached a settlement with Altice USA, the cable television and internet provider that operates Optimum, resolving a three-year dispute over poor service and customer service complaints, officials said Thursday. If...
DMV Will Soon Eliminate Temporary Paper License Plates In NJ
My mom recently just purchased a new vehicle and I am SO incredibly happy for her. She loves it, too, which makes it that much better to partake in her joy. She is having a bit of trouble with all the technology in it, though. She went from a 2007...
Lightning strike damages century-old Cape May, NJ, City Hall
A heavy thunderstorm Friday morning damaged Cape May's city hall. The Cape May Police Department says at about 8:20, a storm that flooded streets across the city produced a significant amount of lightning and one of those bolts hit the century-old building on the 600 block of Washington Street. According...
This might be the unluckiest bridge in New Jersey
If you tuned into New Jersey Fast Traffic on Thursday, you heard about huge troubles on the North Jersey Coast Line of NJ Transit. All train service along the entire line was suspended all day due to problems on the Raritan River Bridge. Service was finally restored early Friday morning.
Wealthy suburbs: These are the richest counties in NJ
The Northeast is home to 23 of the 50 wealthiest suburbs in the nation, according to an analysis released in July by a personal finance website. The Garden State is represented five times on the list from GOBankingRates, which looked at all cities with 5,000 or more households and isolated the 50 cities with the highest average household income. The platform used 2024 home values and metro area location to determine the wealthiest suburbs.
Police: Duo stole 280 iPhones worth $117K in NJ smash and grab
A Passaic man has been accused of helping steal a massive amount of iPhones from an Essex County wholesale electronics store three months ago. On April 18 around 2:24 a.m., Fairfield police were sent to investigate an alarm going off at United Tower Associates, which also operates as Digital World Shop, along Bloomfield Avenue.
“We Are Staying OPEN!” This New Jersey Diner Is Saved From Demolition!
Good news if you're starting to lose faith in the survival of diner culture in New Jersey!. The Medport Diner, located at 122 Route 70 in Medford, is staying open after the building faced closure and demolition!. The disappointing news that the diner would close started to spread when the...
Why is New Jersey Transit so bad? Searching for answers
⬛ New Jersey Transit still plagued by massive delays. ⬛ Lawmakers are demanding a hearing on ongoing problems. Saying "commuters have had enough," a group of lawmakers are calling for legislative hearings into the problems that have derailed commuter schedules for months. The latest frustration for commuters was problems at...
Cost for using bridge tolls in Pennsylvania will increase later this year
(WHTM) — It’s going to cost more to drive the bridges between Philadelphia and New Jersey. The Delaware River Port Authority approved raising tolls on four bridges; The Ben Franklin, Walt Whitman, Betsy Ross and Commodore Barry bridges. It’ll go from five to six dollars. The money will help cover the rising cost of maintaining […]
Big box store shopping in New Jersey just got smaller
In an ever ugly and sad trend another big box store announced that they are closing a chunk of their stores and trying to reorganize to stay above drowning in debt. National discount retailer Big Lots, with close to 1,400 stores nationally including twenty-seven in Monmouth and Ocean counties here in New Jersey, has announced that they are closing up to forty stores nationally and opening three more. Big Lots closed fifty-two stores in 2023 due to inferior performance.
NJ extremist’s terror plot to cripple power grid in heat wave, prosecutors say
💥Plan was revealed to undercover agent, prosecutors say. An East Brunswick man whose online posts on extremist social media platforms encouraged violence against Jews and Blacks was arrested just before he could fly to Ukraine, federal officials say. Andrew Takhistov, 18, took to fringe social media sites to praise...
Test calling ISIS terrorists sparks trouble for NJ school superintendent
WAYNE — Parents are holding a school superintendent's feet to the fire after he apologized for a test question that called ISIS an Islamic terror group. The multiple choice question was part of a quiz in a seventh-grade class at Schuyler-Colfax Middle School in Wayne, according to the group Teaching While Muslim.
N.J. weather: Here’s how many steamy days we’ve had so far this summer
New Jersey’s latest heat wave has finally broken, after four to five days of steamy, sticky weather with temperatures soaring into the mid- to upper 90s in many areas of the state. We even had some triple-digit readings in several towns on Tuesday. Despite the retreating temperatures today, New...
Governor Signs Hillsborough Legislator's Bill to Safeguard New Jersey Real Estate Buyers and Sellers
TRENTON, NJ- – Governor Phil Murphy has signed Bill S3192/A4454, sponsored by Assemblyman Roy Freiman and Assemblywoman Eliana Pintor Marin, which is known as the "Real Estate Consumer Protection Enhancement Act," incorporating certain protections for consumers engaging in residential real estate transactions and certain aspects of commercial real estate transactions. The measure wiil expand current law for those who assist consumers in buying or selling a property, such as a brokerage firm, buyer’s agent, seller’s agent, dual agent, designated agent, and transaction brokers. The legislation also clarifies who is considered a buyer’s agent versus a seller’s agent and what the...
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