Monmouth Metro News

The spirit - if not the letter - of a bill designed to punish corrupt public officials is worth serious consideration.

When his daughter was born this week, Michael Lacerda was in Ocean Medical Center in Brick as a patient.

Struggling retailer Boscov's Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday and said it would close its store at Monmouth Mall in Eatontown.

Common sense tells us that citizens shouldn't be expected to keep paying for the retirement benefits of corrupt politicians who have cheated those very same citizens.

There's a new way to check out attractions, events, restaurants and more at a Web site launched in March - www.shorefirenj.com. The site was created by Dane Tamburino, of Brigantine, and Dambra Sabato, of ...

PETER A. RUSSO, 57, of PORT MONMOUTH, died Friday, August 1, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel.

Firefighters spent more than an hour Saturday afternoon putting out a blaze that damaged the Work Out World gym and sent one firefighter to the hospital, authorities said.

Watching Lou Liberatore and Bill Timoney at work in their respective roles as Oscar and Felix in "The Odd Couple," it's easy to imagine them switching characters without any discernible harm to the production, ...

For years, Jim Nicora thought he had asthma. Doctors had diagnosed it when he was a child, and prescribed an inhaler.

An unknown substance wafted through an Newark apartment building in Newark, sending at least 29 people to the hospital.

A 63-year-old man died early Saturday morning when his mobile home was consumed by fire, despite desperate rescue attempts by neighbors and emergency personnel who were thwarted by the searing flames.

Brad Muller, a summer associate with the Somerville law firm of Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, was awarded the John J. Barry Memorial Scholarship at the annual dinner of the Association of the Federal Bar of New ...

The proposals by Sen. Jeff Van Drew and Assemblyman Brian Rumpf offer a coordinated evacuation of coastal communities in Monmouth, Ocean, Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex and Salem counties in an ...

A borough man was arrested last weekend for allegedly assaulting a police officer and trying to obstruct firefighters who responded to a blaze in the garage of his Center Street home, here.

Local legislators will announce bills today designed to speed people away from the shore in case of an emergency.

Soli-citors for many area municipalities said officials will wait to repeal ordinances restricting where sex offenders can live until the state Supreme Court decides whether to hear the appeal Galloway Township ...

A new department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures program has been started at Rutgers University.

The 85th annual National Marbles Tournament was held in Wildwood in June. People competed from all over including Whitney Lapic who comes from a marbles family.

ABOVE: Former Matawan Mayor Bea Duffy, Sister Elizabeth Garvey and an unidentified person at the recent Crystal beacon Awards.

Former East Brunswick councilman, disgraced teacher and local historian Richard Walling was sent to jail yesterday for violating probation in connection with his theft of $32,500 from the Friends of Monmouth ...