Toms River News

A Toms River man was among those charged in a month-long sweep of alleged child pronographers by local and federal authorities, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office announced Monday.

A month-long high-tech sweep has netted six people on child pornography charges in five Ocean County townships, authorities said.

With the stroke of a pen and the click of a mouse, the federal government saved George Kasimos tens of thousands of dollars.

Residents who live near the site of a proposed 252-unit Pleasant Plains apartment complex are concerned about the potential traffic it could bring, and they want one of the access points to the site closed.

Elevation Saved Mantoloking Home: Elevating his home when it was built 30 years ago, saved Ed Wright's Mantoloking home when the ocean met the bay the the foot of the Mantoloking Bridge during Superstorm Sandy.

Superstorm Sandy drove Laura Lech first to a hotel in Pennsylvania and then a rental home in Milford, but she kept driving her kids back to Ocean County so they could go to their Boy Scout meetings.

Construction-and a lengthy detour-continues this week to rehabilitate the Schencks Mill Bridge on Route 571.

More than $10,000 worth of tools and five catalytic converters were stolen from an industrial park early Friday morning.

Three Perth Amboy men were arrested Saturday afternoon on drug and weapons charges.

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The following was submitted by Ocean County Library spokesman Lawrence Meegan: The Ocean County Library will once again offer summer volunteer programs and is looking for teen volunteers to help out with its Reading Buddies program.

In this real-time traffic map from Mapquest, green portions mean traffic is flowing freely, while yellow and red indicate traffic delays.

Ron Jampel of Brick talks about the situation he and his wife are in, as well as many others, since FEMA released new flood maps.

The location in Toms River where a man was found unconscious and later was pronounced dead of a heroin overdose, officials said.

A local resident was arrested Friday because police say she stole a cellular telephone from a 77-year-old township woman, then urinated in the dressing room of a clothes store where she was shoplifting.

A Toms River man is charged with aggravated assault after a woman told police he attempted to smother her with a pillow while he choked her and held her at knifepoint.

A three mile backup continues in the Garden State Parkway's southbound lanes behind mile marker 87 following an earlier car fire.

Toms River police officers are investigating multiple thefts in town, including one where a can of coffee and packages of frozen beef-along with a computer-were taken from a downtown law office.

Jimmy Morenz at Julian's Bait and Tackle in Atlantic Highlands said the bass and blues are all over the beach when the guys get a chance to go.

The night Superstorm Sandy struck, Toms River public works employees had a choice.