Neptune News

Pastor Cedric Miller, senior pastor of the Living World Christian Fellowship Church in Neptune, N.J., will be preaching up a storm at the June 12 International Praise Day at Bethesda Cathedral in Decatur.

Police said they caught teenagers who were responsible for a series of vehicle burglaries in the Wanamassa section of town.

A grand jury Wednesday added a 19-year-old Neptune man to three others indicted last November in the shooting death of Nathaniel Louis Wiggins in his apartment on Route 35 in Eatontown on March 11, 2008.

One of the six people involved in what police described as a gang-related fight last week has died.

The owner of Strollo's Home Made Italian Ice in Belmar, a Jersey shore landmark, has pleaded guilty to tax evasion for failing to report $112,000 in income he received from the stand in 2006, the Internal Revenue Service said.

A 26-year-old city man stabbed another man during a disturbance inside the apartment they shared, authorities said.

Police have charged two young women and a teenage boy with robbing a Chinese food deliveryman.

A township boy is the first person to die from swine flu at the Jersey Shore, Ocean County health officials confirmed Wednesday.

A 25-year-old male was jailed on as sault and weapons charges after police said he threatened another man with a knife and punched him in the face last week.. Police said Alvaro Franco- Cuque held a knife to the chest of the 21-year-old victim and accused him of calling the police while the suspect was drinking with friends earlier in the week.

Beginning Wednesday, New Jersey employers will pay a higher payroll tax to replenish the unemployment trust fund.

A 16-month-old boy was struck by a car Sunday afternoon in the parking lot of a condominium complex.

Police in Toms River said today they are investigating a brawl that culminated with four people stabbed and two other injured outside an apartment complex.

Three teenagers admitted in court Tuesday that they pulled off a 2008 Neptune gas station robbery using a sawed-off shotgun.

Police arrested an Asbury Park teen who they say led police on a chase in a stolen car.

A lawsuit filed by a sheriff's officer permanently disabled two years ago during a high-alert scare at the Monmouth County jail may finally shed some light on exactly what happened when a suspended jail guard showed up at the jail brandishing a gun and demanding to talk to the warden while schoolchildren were on a field trip there.

The victim who died in a two-car collision on Route 33 Wednesday evening has been identified as a 82-year-old township woman.

A collision at Route 33 and Wayside Road just before 6 p.m. led to the closing of the intersection while emergency responders are at the scene, police said.

Amanda Bradley wrote: EACH LIFE AFFECTS ANOTHER. "Everything we do affects not only our lives, but touches others, too.

New Jersey's unemployment report released Wednesday marked the 16th consecutive month the state has lost jobs, leaving thousands of workers walking in the steps of Jason Gomez.

So much has been written about Voorhees High School senior Lanie Thompson over the past four years, perhaps it's best to let the numbers do the talking about the Courier News Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year.