Ocean City News

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP Royal Suites Health Care and Rehabilitation on Jimmie Leeds Road has a bigger need for donors than ever before as it kicks off its third annual Adopt a Resident program.

The eastern seaboard is still suffering from remnants of what was once Hurricane Ida.

November 17, 2009 -- Local officials at the jersey shore are desperately hoping they'll get money from Washington to repair devastated beaches in places like Atlantic City.

It was a desperate, ultimately futile battle - machine against nature - and Ocean City kept it up long after the outcome had been decided.As wave after wave pummeled the beachfront during last week's powerful nor'easter, more and more of the sand disappeared until the ocean came roaring through.

Emergency management officials fanned out along the southern New Jersey coast on Tuesday, cataloguing damage to dunes, beaches and property from last week's nor'easter -- even as local towns tallied tens of millions of dollars of their own damage claims.

OC's Laurie Vogel tries to get the ball by WH's Lindsey Schott late in the first half as Ocean City defeats Warren Hills, 2-1 in OT, to win the NJSIAA Group 3 Field Hockey final at Toms River East High School.

AP Storms submerge Ocean City Nov. 13: Ocean City, New Jersey lived up to its name Friday as torrential rains flooded the coast.

Schizophrenic man will spend up to 10 years in prison for a brutal, unprovoked attack on a stranger while his son looked on.

Ducky is stabbed while at a crime scene, and the team discovers secrets from his past during the investigation.

Ocean City in NJ, once considered the best beach in New Jersey is now coping with the remnant of hurricane Ida.

The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida pounded the East Coast on Friday, flooding coastal areas and eroding beaches in New Jersey after slamming the Carolinas and Virginia.

Hamilton Township Marion Mertis, 49, of Mays Landing was arrested May 22 by Officer Theodore DeSantis and charged with simple assault.

After several weeks of sharp increases in the spread of swine flu around the region, the first hints that the pandemic may be leveling off have begun to emerge.

The bass train keeps on rolling! Even more stripers have moved into town, and off Brigantine and the Delaware Bay, some true cows pushing the 30- to 50-pound mark have been milling around.

For the first time in more than a decade, New Jersey's summer season was free of serious injuries on roller coasters, Ferris wheels and log flumes, state officials said this week.

An Atlantic County man accused of killing his wife, a well-known artist, was being held Thursday on $1 million bail.

A 53-year-old city man allegedly threw a real kitchen knife in the direction of trick-or-treating children on his porch on Halloween as a prank, a report in the Press of Atlantic City said.

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SOMERS POINT Capt. Brook Koeneke and first mate Michael Mulveen of the Duke O'Fluke took a different kind of boat trip Saturday as city officials joined managers of Route 52 Constructors for a closer view of the causeway construction project.

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