The memory of a Waretown toddler whose final act saved three lives was carried before millions of viewers on New Year’s Day, as 3-year-old Lilyanne “Lily” James was honored with a floragraph portrait ...

A 67-year-old Lakewood man has been sentenced to a decade in state prison for distributing child sexual abuse material, following an investigation led by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech ...

A Manchester Township man has admitted he tried to kill his mother during a violent assault last summer and now faces a decade in state prison. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said Joseph ...

A Lakewood man has been sentenced to state prison for eluding police while intoxicated and for causing a separate high-speed crash that seriously injured an off-duty police officer, Ocean County ...

A unanimous vote by the Ocean County Library Commission to keep the Pop-Up operating inside the Toms River branch through April 30 came after two very different public meetings. Ultimately, the ...

An Ocean County grand jury has indicted a Pennsylvania woman on aggravated arson and eluding charges stemming from a house fire and a police pursuit on Long Beach Island last year, prosecutors ...

TOMS RIVER – Many point to Ocean County’s homelessness crisis and argue that the missing piece is a year-round shelter. While shelters are designed to provide emergent refuge, participants at a recent ...

A township man will be performing with Rockin’1000  on January 31 at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.   Rockin’1000 is dubbed “the biggest band in the world.” Originally created in Cesena, Italy, ...

Captain Mary Nelson has been appointed interim police chief. Not only is she the township’s first female interim chief, she was also the first female lieutenant and captain. A statement posted to the ...

A pedestrian was injured late January 27 after being struck by a pickup truck whose driver fled the scene in Lakehurst, ...

The Berkeley Township Historical Society is mourning the loss of Martin D. Schmidt, a longtime member whose dedication and craftsmanship helped modernize and maintain the township’s museum for years.

A New York woman has been charged with arson in connection with a late-night hotel fire in Toms River, authorities said. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that Constance Koeper, ...