Long Branch News

State and federal law enforcement officials in New Jersey are announcing the results of their annual roundup of fugitives across the state.

An afternoon fire Wednesday in a Second Avenue apartment displaced the tenant but resulted in no injuries, a fire official said.

County authorities will hold a gun buy-back program in Long Branch on Friday and Saturday.

Monmouth County has completed spring police and fire academy graduations, with 21 police officers, 37 special police officers and 61 volunteers from the Firefighter I program attending ceremonies.

A Long Branch man has been charged with assault by auto after an accident on Oceanport Avenue Monday afternoon.

A borough man, whose family dates back to the early settlement of coastal Monmouth County and whose efforts to trace the history of the area's oldest cemeteries and burial grounds, was honored last week with a joint legislative resolution authored by state Sen.

A 22-year-old Paterson man suffered a superficial gunshot wound to his ear on Sunday, police said.

Borough Councilman Steven F. Cioffi said he and Police Chief Arthur N. Cosentino and Police Capt.

Dozens of parishioners walked out of a Mass at the former Our Lady, Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Church on Sunday at the moment their former priest was introduced as pastor of the newly formed Christ the King church.

Ed Johnson took over as mayor of the city Wednesday, elected by his City Council colleagues after all five members were sworn in to new four-year terms.

Fireworks will cap off Oceanfest Saturday in Long Branch. The biggest Fourth of July event in New Jersey? You'll never guess, so I'll give you the answer.

Six months after the city said it was close to working out a deal with the last holdout in what officials hope will one day be the Broadway arts and entertainment zone, there is tangible proof the case is moving toward settlement.

Long Branch police took two 14-year-old boys into custody this morning in connection with vehicles stolen in Eatontown, police said.

A thunderstorm Friday night knocked down an electric wire on Poole Avenue in Union Beach, apparently igniting sort of gas possibly from sewerage system line, police said.

The first clue that this is not your typical meeting with a religious leader is the choice of coffee cup: black with red details, it pays homage to Meat Loaf's 1977 rock classic "Bat out of Hell." For Rabbi Cy Stanway, who for the last decade has led the 350 families who worship at Temple Beth Miriam, the county's oldest Jewish synagogue, it is a ...

NJ Transit has restored bus service along the boardwalk in Asbury Park, another signal to city officials that tourists are once again interested in the rebounding seaside community.

Anastacio Garcia, 40, of Jackson Street was charged in connection with the stabbing of a 26-year-old resident multiple times at 4:51 a.m. Sunday, police said.

If your total knowledge of Shakespeare amounts to the line "To Be or Not to Be,'' or if you can recite every word of every play he wrote, we have the perfect midsummer night's entertainment for you.

A convicted armed robber who failed to appear for sentencing was arrested Wednesday in Long Branch by officers from the Monmouth County Sheriff's Department and other agencies.

Police arrested an Asbury Park man who they say broke into a car in the parking lot of a Route 36 business.