Brick News

A 46-year-old Marine Corps veteran who fell on hard times was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison for holding up a Toms River bank in February.

A Brick man went to an Asbury Avenue strip mall, confronted his ex-girlfriend, then forced his way into her vehicle, police said.

A local woman has been charged with stealing blank checks from her mother and writing them out to herself, police said.

The arrest Nov. 14 was the result of a narcotics interdiction in the 200 block of Myrtle Avenue, said Lt.

"Black Friday" brings to mind early-morning rises, long lines and hostile crowds.

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Gov. Jon Corzine, pictured at a joint session of the Legislature in March, said today he would come up with "answers" about the state's larger-than-expected $1 billion budget deficit by Christmas.

Gov.-elect Chris Christie, whose questionable driving history became a campaign issue, will soon be in a position to promote or potentially scuttle New Jersey's fledgling red light camera experiment.

Police nabbed two men after neighbors reported seeing them entering a home on North Riverside Drive around 4 p.m. Sunday, said Sgt.

And you thought you had concerns over how to feed everybody for Thanksgiving. Starting Monday and continuing today, seven chefs and about 200 culinary arts students at the Ocean County Vocational Technical School here are preparing more than 2,000 Thanksgiving meals for the needy.

A 22-year-old township man was arrested Thursday on drugs and gun charges, police reported.

A Brick teenager has been charged in connection with a bias incident where a racial slur was written on a white vinyl fence belonging to a black man who lives in the Pine Lake Park section.

Police arrested a California Avenue man who tried to leave a supermarket with a shopping cart holding about $200 worth of meat, then pushed a security guard who tried to stop him and ran away without the meat, said police Capt.

The township is moving one step closer to a permanent pollution control system at a landfill in the northern part of the municipality.

New windows and central heat upgrades will be installed throughout town hall with the help of federal grant dollars, officials confirmed.

A 50-year-old Brick man whose vehicular homicide conviction was overturned four years ago will be retried next year on charges related to a 2001 accident that killed a 76-year-old Marlboro man and injured his three elderly passengers.

On Monday mornings, Phyllis Thompson's class goes bowling. Comprised of eight 15- to 21-year-olds, the class heads to Ocean Lanes in Lakewood, where they lace their shoes and throw brightly colored balls down the lanes as part of their curriculum.

School district solar power could see a new dawn. Electricity-generating solar panels were proposed at Brick Township High School and Lake Riviera and Veterans Memorial middle schools earlier this year.

Weapons charges against a Brick man who was wounded in a shootout in Berkeley in 2007 have been dismissed in a plea bargain under which he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for an unrelated gun offense.

Community organizations and municipalities up and down the shore have been paying tribute to America's servicemen and women this week, with solemn ceremonies to mark Veterans Day, officially celebrated on Nov.