Beverly News

Legislators propose bill to curb New Jersey American Water company's automatic quarterly increases.

Authorities in Elmwood Park yesterday identified one of two bodies pulled from the Passaic River on Sunday as that of Beverly T. Spano, the Waldwick mother of three who was reported missing last week.

The Burlington County Emergency Services Training Center's graduation honored more than 100 graduates and two men with more than 25 years of service to the county.

Beverly City, a municipality that has seen its share of change in the past 150-plus years, was the eighth stop for the Change Burlington County Now campaign's "40-in-40: Listen and Learn" Tour of Democratic Freeholder Candidates Kimberly Kersey and Jim Bernard.

The Burlington County Transporta-tion System has announced the details of a new service aimed at helping seniors and people with disabilities get to their destinations.

The owner of the Snover Funeral Home in Beverly has been indicted on charges of stealing money from customers' prepaid funeral accounts, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi announced Wednesday.

Three Phila-delphia women were charged Sunday with shoplifting from the Gymboree on Route 73 and other stores in the township.

The politicians in the one-square-mile, 2,600-population city of Beverly outnumber the police officers.

Memorial Day will be celebrated - and veterans honored - throughout the county today, with a few events also scheduled for next weekend.

David R. Tustin, 61, of Millville passed away on Saturday, May 2, 2009, at South Jersey Regional Medical Center in Vineland.

Nearly 13 years ago, Beverly Gilbert-Lang received a phone call that would forever change her family.

When Beverly McInerney went to Ocean Township Municipal Court on Feb. 10 to contest a traffic summons, she saw the line of defendants stretched out the door.

PEMBERTON BOROUGH a ' A 43-year-old Mount Holly man has died from injuries he sustained Monday afternoon when he was thrown off his motorcycle on South Pemberton Road.

Levittown - mhayes@phillyBurbs.comMOUNT HOLLY - The Burlington County Republican Committee has pegged a Florence carpenter and a Medford attorney to run in place of longtime Freeholders Jim Wujcik and Bill Haines.Haines and Wujcik announced last week that they would not seek re-election after 15 and 13 years on the board respectively.The committee ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction of a Beverly man serving a life sentence for having his 13-year-old son rob a Mount Laurel pharmacy in 2002.

An elderly woman who was reported missing has been found dead here, authorities said Monday.

The New Jersey Historic Trust today announced its recommended list for 2008 Historic Preservation Grants.

South Jersey is experiencing the same pattern of suburban gang proliferation as the rest of the nation, according to local enforcement officials.

The owner of a defunct funeral home is accused of defrauding customers of more than $60,000, officials said Friday.

A pedestrian who attempted to cross Route 130 near Van Sciver Parkway was fatally struck by an SUV.