Long Branch News

The world premiere of Lee Blessing's "A View of the Mountains" is set to open next Saturday, April 26 at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch.

Playwrights Theatre has partnered with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for prose and poetry readings for the Literary Artist Fellowship Showcases in Long Branch.

Long Branch police are investigating reports of gunshots being fired near the busy McDonald's on Broadway on Tuesday afternoon.

Crime and arrest reports, unedited, as provided by the Shrewsbury Police Department for the period of April 4 to April 10, 2014.

Motorists drive along Rt. 206, which runs through Hillsborough. Hillsborough was ranked as one of the cities in New Jersey with the lowest annual auto insurance premiums.

A Long Branch man was charged Monday with attempted murder in the shooting of another man last week, police said.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. For the second consecutive week and third time this season, Rutgers softball junior center fielder Jackie Bates was named to the American Athletic Conference Weekly Honor Roll, the league announced Monday.

James M. Coleman, Jr, 90, a native of Asbury Park and life long public servant to the people of Monmouth County and New Jersey, passed away on Saturday, April 12, in Rockville Centre, NY.

Apr. 14, 2014 - MADISON, N.J. -- Playwrights Theatre has partnered with the New Jersey State Council on the Arts for prose and poetry readings for the Literary Artist Fellowship Showcases in Long Branch.

Having two children was always part of my plan. Growing up in a family of four, my childhood memories largely comprise moments including my brother, Robbie, 29. I fully embraced the role of older sister.

JACKSON - A hush fell over the room last week as 13 Monmouth University psychology students knelt on the floor and waited for the subject of the day's lesson to arrive.

T hese days, 13 isn't at all an unlucky number for Jeff Blumenkrantz. The Long Branch native must play a total of five women and eight men in 90 intermissionless minutes in the off-Broadway musical "Murder for Two."

WEST LONG BRANCH - An entrepreneur finds opportunity in a crisis - Barbara Schechter, of Manalapan found a way to make money doing what she loves.

Their accomplishments are many. They are teachers, school administrators, business owners, veterans, ministers, students, and volunteers who 50 years ago decided to establish a local chapter of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs Inc. to help themselves and their community.

Two men were arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated following motor vehicle stops early Saturday morning, police said.

One of your friends changed something about her look, but you can't quite put your finger on it.

Jurors in Superior Court in Elizabeth found a West Long Branch man guilty of stalking a Union County teenager over three-and-a-half years.

Jurors in Union County have convicted a tennis coach from Monmouth County of stalking a boy.

In 2005, Ashia Huelsenbeck began scooping ice cream as a counter clerk at Hoffman's Ice Cream, but she never imagined her own success would be so intertwined with that of the Point Pleasant Beach-based small business that sells 40 varieties of ice cream.

WEST LONG BRANCH - Paul Brown has been president of Monmouth University for nearly a full school year.