Point Pleasant News

Barbecue is all about going slow. At barbecue restaurants throughout the area, chefs spend hours and sometimes even days preparing everything from slow-smoked meats to homemade sides.

Starting in October, This Old House on PBS will present a special eight-episode series about three sets of homeowners who are struggling to rebuild after destruction wrought by Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

Charles Waldron of Point Pleasant Beach, aka Captain Charles Black, performs a swordfight skit with members of his Valhalla's Pirates troupe at the Fell's Point Privateers Festival in Baltimore.

Major roadwork on the Route 35 reconstruction project in Ocean County will be put off until after Labor Day, but there will be plenty of contractor trucks along with the usual tourist traffic this summer near the Shore.

Monmouth County 2010: 10 homicides; all solved 2011: 10 homicides; 2 cases open 2012: 12 homicides; 5 cases open 2013: 7 homicides; 4 cases open Ocean County 2010: 14 homicides; 3 cases open 2011: 10 homicides; all cases solved 2012: 6 homicides; all cases solved 2013: 1 homicide unsolved Sources: Prosecutor's Offices of Ocean and Monmouth counties ... (more)

The 1,600 or more participants in the 66-mile Roar to Restore the Shore motorcycle run yesterday were greeted with smiling faces, waving hands, and even some checks for their cause along the route.

An eight-episode series of 'This Old House' focuses on several local homes rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.

Update, 12:58 p.m.: This story was updated with additional information from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

A Manchester Township man was charged with the robbery and felony murder of a Point Pleasant man found in the backyard of a Long Branch home, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced Friday.

After a successful December concert raised $15,000 to benefit Superstorm Sandy victims, two Toms River teens are hoping to double that amount during a Sunday fundraiser in Seaside Heights.

An eight-episode series of 'This Old House' focuses on several local homes rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.

Georgian Court University will present a multimedia Faculty Art Exhibit May 13-30 in the university's M. Christina Geis Art Gallery.

Point Pleasant native Kevin Lasko will be among world-class athletes competing in an elite obstacle race in Vermont in June.

About 70 trained divers showed up to scan and remove debris from the ocean floor off Brick Beach I Saturday morning, but Mother Nature had other plans when lightning and a pounding surf made the task unsafe, said Joe Skimmons, event organizer.

The Penn State men and women in the college's three Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs were commissioned as officers, in which they will participate for active duty for the next several years.

A pair of New Jersey women whose cat escaped after they evacuated their home after superstorm Sandy said the cat showed up six months later.

The Atlantic Ocean breached the Ocean County barrier island in three places in Mantoloking, washing out Route 35 at Lyman Avenue.

The idea of a complete street is one that is available to multiple modes of transportation, not just driving in a car, but walking and riding a bicycle.

The group's Facebook page is packed full of images of students from France and Spain visiting Jersey Shore landmarks with their American families.

Porsche, held by owner Carol Baumann, disappeared in Point Pleasant, N.J. in early November 2012 and showed up back at home in Toms River on May 1, 2013.