Neptune News

Neptune, New Jersey junior running back Charles Davis has done a little bit of everything for his high school squad this year, and once colleges have a chance to take a closer look at his performance this fall his offer list may very well grow.

Police are investigating a shooting on Atlantic Avenue that sent a Howell man to the hospital Friday night, authorities reported.

"It's hunting season which is our chance to feed many hungry people in New Jersey but we can't do it without the public's help," says Les Giese, co-founder and Board Trustee of the group.

The Monmouth County DWI Task Force, in cooperation with the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, will conduct a DWI checkpoint this weekend to detect drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

Republicans David Rible and Mary Pat Angelini easily won second terms to the state Assembly for the 11th Legislative District last night.

Festive families hit the boardwalk in droves on a mild but windy afternoon Saturday for the city's second annual Halloween Children's Parade.

No matter what team wins the assembly race in the 11th Legislative District next Tuesday, Southern Monmouth County will be well represented in Trenton.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office with the cooperation with the Neptune Police Department arrested and charged a 19-year-old Asbury Park man with the murder of a 35-year-old Neptune man.

The expected testimony of the man prosecutors alleged was hired by a former Millstone man to run over a Red Bank attorney was delayed this morning when the witness demanded to first speak to his attorney.

Police arrested a township man who they say fired a gun at three men in May. The men - all township residents, ages 24, 25, and 25 - were not hit by the gunfire on that Sunday afternoon in May, police said.

Police have arrested a 43-year-old Monmouth County man who they say robbed a bank on Route 66 in Neptune.

Five New Jersey school construction projects - including a Jersey City early childhood center and elementary school - have been stalled for months because of a fight between the state and a contractors group over the bidding process.

Five more New Jersey newspapers have made their endorsements in the state's gubernatorial race.

An 18-year-old Long Branch man allegedly commandeered a taxi at knife point on Bangs Avenue Thursday night, but was stopped moments later, police said.

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.

The New Jersey economy in September lost 12,700 jobs and its unemployment rate climbed from 9.6 percent to 9.8 percent, a 32-year high, the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development said Wednesday.

A taxicab passenger was arrested and charged with burglary after police working a quality of life detail found jewelry and a video camera reported stolen from a township home last week.

At a special meeting held at the Shark River Hills Marina, here, yesterday, the Neptune Township Committee passed a resolution authorizing the town to sue the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection [DEP] because the DEP has neither dredged the Shark River, nor has it identified a site for the dewatering of dredged materials.

An Asbury Park woman, who admitted she stabbed her husband in the heart three days before Christmas in 2006 while arguing about the fact that she had stayed out all night, apologized to his family in an emotional plea for forgiveness before she was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday.

The Township Committee is hoping a Superior Court judge will force the state Department of Environmental Protection to finally dredge the Shark River bay.