Lakewood News

A $1 million gang-prevention grant application presumed dead last week was revived Monday as individuals and groups offered to provide the township's matching portion of the award, officials said.

The Australian play "Picnic at Hanging Rock" will be the fall play performed by students of the Performing Arts Academy of the Ocean County Vocational Technical School district.

Valencia, who leads a womens' ministry group at the Church of Grace and Peace in Toms River, where she lives, started handing out winter coats and bibles in the downtown area eight years ago, she said.

A 48-year-old Howell man who admitted being the wheelman for his son in the robbery of a Chinese food deliveryman in Lakewood was sentenced Friday to five years in prison for his role in the crime.

New Jersey's next governor vowed Friday to veto any tax increase the Legislature sends to his desk in the coming year.

The Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a Dance America Tour, making a stop tonight at the Strand Theatre in Lakewood.

Each night, William Langley has his bedtime routine: brush his teeth, wash his face, make up the sofa and barricade himself with a moat of insecticide.

Although New Jersey's election produced an about-face in the governor's office on the gay marriage issue, both sides of the debate have been readying for a post-election battle in the Legislature.

It's been 20 years since a Democrat has served on the governing body of one of the most Republican-leaning towns in the county.

Lakewood, N.J., Oct. 28, 2009 - New Jersey artist Theresa Troise Heidel remembers fondly the summers she spent at Asbury Park in its heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

An obscure sign on a dilapidated Second Street house has spread fear and fury over one business owner's threat to start a volunteer immigration watchdog group in an effort to clean up the downtown commercial district.

Lakewood, N.J., Oct. 26, 2009 - On Tuesday, November 3, Georgian Court University invites transfer students to attend an Undergraduate Transfer Information Session to learn about the transfer admissions process.

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $210,000 in stimulus funds to Lakewood Township specifically to stimulate jobs.

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Mumps outbreaks in New Jersey and the New York City borough of Brooklyn are related, health officials say.

A 26-year-old Lakewood man was in critical condition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center Friday after he lost control of his car and veered off Alexander Avenue hitting several trees.

October 23, 2009 -- Officials issued a public health alert after about 30 cases of mumps have been identified in Lakewood, New Jersey over the last two weeks.

State and Ocean County health officials are investigating an outbreak of mumps in a section of Lakewood.

A nursing student who didn't think twice about the thick black smoke that billowed from her neighbor's front door Wednesday rescued a 78-year-old woman from the burning bungalow.

Attorneys for three reputed members of the Bloods street gang this morning placed the blame for the witness-tampering murder of a 55-year-old Lakewood woman on a cooperating co-defendant. In their summations to an Ocean County jury considering murder and other charges against their clients, attorneys for Jamell Scott, James Russell and Trishawn ...