Lakewood News

A Lakewood man received a big break three years ago when a judge gave him a suspended sentence for his role in a home invasion he committed with his more notorious brothers.

Anne Krystopik sued her father after the dog he was watching bit her repeatedly at his Jackson home three years ago - an attack that left her with about 300 stitches, said her attorney, Norman Hobbie.

The town's development footprint for the next 20 years heads to Trenton to seek the state's blessing after the township committee adopted the controversial measure Thursday with some minor amendments.

As the voice of a U.S. congressman crackled throughout the dimly-lighted room, the men and women sat quietly around the speakerphone, listening.

The Lakewood Township Committee is expected to vote Thursday night on a Smart Growth Plan that would establish broad parameters for how the township will grow over the next 20 years.

A 39-year-old Lakewood man accused of mugging a man and flushing the proceeds down a toilet pleaded guilty Wednesday to robbery.

Dreading the thought of fighting the crowds at the local mall just to get the same old gifts offered by chain stores? Break out of the mold and catch the holiday spirit at Georgian Court University's Second Annual Victorian Christmas Festival and Gift Boutique from Friday, December 4, through Sunday, December 6, in the Casino Auditorium on the ...

A gospel event today held to raise money for college scholarships will feature singer Tye Tribbett, founder of the Grammy-winning gospel group Tye Tribbett and Greater Anointing.

A 76-year-old Lakewood man accused of stealing $75,000 from a South African man in a bogus gold deal has rejected a plea bargain and asked for a trial.

Authorities seized a kilo of cocaine and three pounds of marijuana when they raided an Oak Street home on Friday.

A man wanted in connection with an August carjacking of a taxi is in jail, after being arrested Saturday, Lt.

A Governors Road man is charged with child cruelty and simple assault after he head-butted and forced to the ground a 16-year-old boy who was dating the man's niece, police Lt.

TOMS RIVER - A 32-year-old Lakewood man has been indicted on charges of possessing and distributing child pornography.

A township man believed to have murdered his ex-girlfriend and then fatally slashed his own throat Tuesday did so two hours after being released from jail when a prosecutor's office representative recommended existing domestic violence charges filed by the victim be downgraded.

Ohio State Marching Band Director John Woods announced Josh Halter as the 2009 Most Inspirational Band Person at the annual Veterans Memorial concert Nov.

OHI , a federally qualified health center with locations at 101 Second Street, Lakewood and 301 Lakehurst Road, Toms River, and the Lakewood Board of Education have formed a partnership to ensure that Lakewood students and their families receive H1N1 immunizations.

A Lakewood man who in 1997 admitted to leading a narcotics distribution network in Ocean and Monmouth counties was arrested with his brother and two others following a months-long investigation into cocaine trafficking, authorities said.

A $1 million gang-prevention grant application presumed dead last week was revived Monday as individuals and groups offered to provide the township's matching portion of the award, officials said.

The Australian play "Picnic at Hanging Rock" will be the fall play performed by students of the Performing Arts Academy of the Ocean County Vocational Technical School district.

Valencia, who leads a womens' ministry group at the Church of Grace and Peace in Toms River, where she lives, started handing out winter coats and bibles in the downtown area eight years ago, she said.