Holmdel News

Remember that scene in "The Wrestler" when Marisa Tomei's gold-hearted stripper recalls the good-time glory days of '80s hair metal? " '90s sucked," she and Mickey Rourke concluded.

Police arrested and charged two people in connection with the theft of $9,000 from Ryan's Funeral Home here earlier this week.

A Freehold concertgoer is the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against Live Nation that accuses the company, which manages the PNC Bank Arts Center, of violating state consumer protection laws by padding ticket prices for events at the Holmdel amphitheater.

Holmdel - The Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Foundation has named Kenneth Gurbisz of Eatontown as Deputy Director of Education and Operations.

Monmouth County Park System officials are having second thoughts after earlier refusing to change a policy permitting department heads and other employees to live in county-owned homes at bargain rates.

Two men authorities identified as leaders of a $500 million-a-year sports betting operation in three states were sent to state prison Friday.

You don't have to wait for fame! The WRAT , a Greater Media radio station, is giving local bands the chance to play in front of thousands at Ratfest 2009, the Coors Light sponsored 2009 Ratfest, PNC Arts Center, Holmdel, N.J., Tuesday, August 18.

About 100 people gathered at Riverside Gardens Park on West Front Street Tuesday to commemorate the fifth anniversary of a Tinton Falls boy being abducted by his mother.

HAZLET - Rosemarie Wilkinson, a U.S. History II teacher at Raritan High School, planned to travel to South Korea this week to participate in a two-week workshop program.

Graduating eighth-graders here heard Thursday from a 19-year-old Holmdel man who went from the high school classroom to the board of education at graduation.

In less than a decade, employing a variety of media and techniques, Laurent Grasso has produced a distinctive body of work that unsettles the viewer's certainties.

Here's the deal. The PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel will offer lawn tickets for 18 shows for a price of $24.99 for 24 hours, starting noon Wednesday, June 17.

Police are awaiting toxicological tests to determine the cause of death of a 26-year-old Highlands woman who died hours after she was found unresponsive inside a Keansburg home, authorities said.

When Melissa Bagley and Alyssa Bozzett were planning for their Girl Scout Gold Award project, the teens knew they wanted to do something meaningful.

The Board of Education will hold their meeting at 7 p.m. tonight in the cafetorium of Indian Hill Elementary School, located at 735 Holmdel Road.

Police arrested a Middlesex County man who they say broke into a Gibson Drive home last week.

The Holmdel Kiwanis Foundation is hosting the 14th annual Dominick J. Luccarelli Golf Outing on Monday at Bamm Hollow Country Club in the Lincroft section of Middletown.

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Eighties boy-band New Kids on the Block are no longer new, and certainly not kids -- youngest member Joey McIntyre is 36.

To free yourself from an assailant, use your fingers to gouge his eyes or stab him in the thigh with your keys, the Holmdel police officers told a group of 17- and 18-year-old women in a self-defense course.

He's been a Strait shooter on the country music scene for more than 30 years and it seems like his star is higher than a 10-gallon hat these days.