Netcong News

Nearly a year ago, two of the East Coast's largest metropolitan pubcasting powerhouses took over nine New Jersey pubradio stations, casting uncertainty over the future of public radio news coverage for Garden State listeners.

One week a bunch of new shows are opening, and before you know it, they're all getting ready to finish their runs.

A 19-year-old Netcong man threatened to kill himself by jumping off an Interstate 80 overpass Sunday, causing police to close a portion of the highway for three hours, according to New Jersey State Police in Hope Township .

State Troopers from the Netcong barracks received a call after midnight on Saturday night that a car was traveling north on the southbound lanes of Interstate 287, according to Trooper Christopher Kay of the New Jersey State Police.

Nobody was injured when a fire gouged the right side of a Hopatcong home at 333 Tulsa Trail Monday night, police said.