Asbury Park News

Nelson Riddle may have written the theme song for the TV show "Route 66" and arranged the music for episodes of "Batman," but it is his work with singers such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat "King" Cole, Judy Garland and others that cemented his place in American music.

Police are investigating a shooting on Atlantic Avenue that sent a Howell man to the hospital Friday night, authorities reported.

One can't say the Rev. Herman Thompson isn't excited about the eighth anniversary celebration for his New Brunswick All-Stars singing group.

Eva Sipos' worries her last chance to get married will disappear in about two months.

Violence, fiscal mismanagement and the old perennial, corruption , were the subjects of the most important state and local news stories of 2006.

Ileft New Jersey 11 years ago and still read the Asbury Park Press online every day.

Police have arrested a 43-year-old Monmouth County man who they say robbed a bank on Route 66 in Neptune.

Lakewood, N.J., Oct. 28, 2009 - New Jersey artist Theresa Troise Heidel remembers fondly the summers she spent at Asbury Park in its heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

John Corzine remains committed to implementing same-sex marriage in New Jersey if he is re-elected. His campaign spokesperson affirmed that he would be submitting such legislation soon after the election in Novemeber.

Igrew up vacationing at the Jersey Shore. But not the one near-ish my boyhood home in Jersey City.

Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love. That's would be New Brunswick, at least this Saturday at the Old Bay Restaurant as Wupa's Halloween show is set to be a brothers-themed extravaganza.

Itchy House Films in conjunction with Gruntled Entertainment, will shoot its latest project, Change, in Asbury Park and Neptune on Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1. The short film, directed and produced by award-winning cinematographer Jay Rodriguez, takes place in Monmouth County.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office with the cooperation with the Neptune Police Department arrested and charged a 19-year-old Asbury Park man with the murder of a 35-year-old Neptune man.

Whether or not you believe in the existence of the paranormal, there is one truly mystifying presence that dwells on Asbury Park's Cookman Avenue with a palpability that cannot be denied, a rogue spirit who's indelible impression on the Jersey Shore - and beyond - is best described in one word: supernatural.

An 18-year-old Long Branch man has been charged with commandeering a taxi at knife point on Bangs Avenue and injuring the cab driver.

Shielding his face from the lens of a photographer, a man who admitted being at an alleged hit-and-run attempted murder of a Red Bank lawyer testified Wednesday he didn't know that was the purpose of the ride he took with an associate.

Coming almost as a response to the popularity of school uniforms in the lower grades, Asbury Park High School students could be stepping into their own designated shirts, pants and shoes in about three months, city school board president Barbara Lesinski said Wednesday.

Author Junot Diaz reads from "Wildwood" a chapter of his Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" at Bergen Community College, October 19, 2009.

A pediatrician here whose license was suspended after he was accused of giving expired vaccines to children was criminally charged with taking pornographic photographs of a young patient without her consent, a report in the Asbury Park Press said.

Police in this Middlesex County borough were still investigating Tuesday night what caused a tanker-truck to go into an oncoming lane, setting off a three-vehicle accident on Devoe Avenue before the truck driver, an Asbury Park man, he died at an area hospital.