Lakewood News Archives

An obscure sign on a dilapidated Second Street house has spread fear and fury over one business owner's threat to start a volunteer immigration watchdog group in an effort to clean up the downtown commercial district.

Lakewood, N.J., Oct. 26, 2009 - On Tuesday, November 3, Georgian Court University invites transfer students to attend an Undergraduate Transfer Information Session to learn about the transfer admissions process.

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $210,000 in stimulus funds to Lakewood Township specifically to stimulate jobs.

Donations can be sent to KCU, P.O. Box 172, Lakewood, New Jersey 08701. The attached letter was signed by the following Rabbonim: Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen , Rav Shlomo Gissinger Rav Shmuel Blech , Rav Osher Chaim Lieberman We were asked to ascertain why-SHAAR-HAMISHPAT BAIS-DIN is wondering why he has a need for various handguns & other weaponary? If ...

Mumps outbreaks in New Jersey and the New York City borough of Brooklyn are related, health officials say.

A 26-year-old Lakewood man was in critical condition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center Friday after he lost control of his car and veered off Alexander Avenue hitting several trees.

October 23, 2009 -- Officials issued a public health alert after about 30 cases of mumps have been identified in Lakewood, New Jersey over the last two weeks.

State and Ocean County health officials are investigating an outbreak of mumps in a section of Lakewood.

A nursing student who didn't think twice about the thick black smoke that billowed from her neighbor's front door Wednesday rescued a 78-year-old woman from the burning bungalow.

Attorneys for three reputed members of the Bloods street gang this morning placed the blame for the witness-tampering murder of a 55-year-old Lakewood woman on a cooperating co-defendant. In their summations to an Ocean County jury considering murder and other charges against their clients, attorneys for Jamell Scott, James Russell and Trishawn ...

The gunman who fatally shot a 55-year-old woman at the start of last year's barbershop murder trial painted himself to a jury this morning as a homeless young man from a broken home who joined the Bloods street gang for brotherhood, and then was ordered to kill.

Firefighters pulled a 48-year-old woman from her burning home on Whitlock Avenue early Wednesday morning, after she called 911 and said she was trapped.

This year's Township Committee race between Democratic incumbent Larry Fink and Republican challenger Frank Capaci could have direct implications for the future of the former Bell Labs building and the sewer system in the municipality.

Kathryn Cace was in such agony from foot ulcers that she couldn't sleep at night.

In March 2005, the township approved a lucrative land deal that gave one developer $9 million and another 36 acres of public land.

During two hours of testimony Thursday, a State Police street gang expert told members of a jury why he believes all four men on trial for the murder of a 55-year-old Lakewood woman are members a local Bloods set.

If projections are correct, the township will have a population of at least 90,000 people by 2010 - 30,000 more people than 10 years ago.

Lakewood Patrolman Jonathon Wilson was in the shower, having just finished his regular shift at midnight, when the telephone call came.

A police officer who was critically wounded while executing a no-knock warrant said there was a sense of "chaos" as he charged up the stairs.

A federal judge has suggested possible disciplinary action against a lawyer who improperly designated a witness as an expert so he could pay him for his factual testimony.

An 18-year-old township man was arrested Tuesday and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a death -- Monday evening's fatal hit-and-run collision that killed Shalom Werther, 17, of Lakewood.

A former inmate at the Ocean County Jail testified today that he let a fellow inmate use his phone identification number, a move authorities say allowed jailed murder suspects Jamell Scott and James Russell to order the execution of a woman with ties to a witness in their pending trial.

Police are searching for a vehicle involved in a hit-and-run that left a man dead in Lakewood tonight, authorities said.

Authorities are analyzing evidence collected at the scene where a 17-year-old boy was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver, said Patrolman Robert Redington of the Lakewood Police Traffic Safety Unit.

Police are investigating a hit-and-run accident that killed a pedestrian and was reported about 7:50 p.m. Monday at Cedar Bridge and Melville avenues, Sgt.

When Lee C. Reeves got orders from a fellow Bloods gang member to kill a woman in her Lakewood apartment, there was no backing out because it was "kill or be killed" on the streets, his attorney told jurors in the opening of Reeves' murder trial today.

A man charged with shooting four Lakewood police officers who were executing a no-knock search warrant at his home has made his first appearance in court.

A gunman opened fire on a SWAT team that burst into a Lakewood, N.J. home during a drug and gun raid, wounding four officers while spraying bullets from atop a staircase, authorities said.

Bail remains at $2.25 million for a New Jersey man who was wounded when he allegedly opened fire on SWAT team members who raided his home.Jaime Gonzalez, who had been hospitalized since the Sept.

Depictions of the lives of women past and present unite in "Sculpted and Sewn," a joint exhibit of New Jersey artists Diane Savona, Passaic, and Mira Welnowska, Jackson.