Neptune News

A local man who was treated for a gunshot wound at a hospital last week has been charged with attempted murder after police learned the injury was suffered in an robbery attempt.

Various street gang members and the alleged kingpins of a $750,000-a-week drug distribution ring charged with supplying the Shore area with cocaine and heroin have been named in a multiple-count indictment handed up by a grand jury in Monmouth County this week.

Two Monmouth County men were injured when their vehicles collided Sunday afternoon on Deal Road.

An Asbury Park man pleaded guilty in Superior Court today to an amended charge of aggravated manslaughter, admitting to fatally shooting Justin Johnson, 19, of Asbury Park Village in 2007.

Editor's note: Monday's editorial "Gay marriage: Don't rush it" generated a flurry of responses from letter writers.

A new Monmouth County Million Mom March Chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence will have an organizational meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. today at St.

A Bradley Beach teenager was charged with driving while intoxicated after he crashed his car into a utility pole near Hinck Turkey Farm early Sunday morning, police said.

A grease fire that started in an eatery and spread through duct work caused damage to the interior and roof of Jersey Shore University Medical Center on Route 33 Saturday evening, an official said.

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Police have charged a Neptune man with burglarizing seven vehicles in Bradley Beach and stealing items from six of those cars, authorities said.

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.