Point Pleasant News

Point Pleasant and Point Pleasant Beach - like many towns in New Jersey - are considering merging several government departments or services as a means to save money and, maybe, provide some relief to taxpayers.

A 51-year-old Matawan woman who claimed she was raped in the Point Pleasant municipal lockup pleaded guilty Monday to making a false police report.

William Brown Jr. and Joseph Bell had been without steady work for days, acquaintances said.

The youngest member of the Borough Council does not appear to be overwhelmed or in awe of being in the spotlight.

In the wink of an eye, a decade went by. And we didn't even get a chance to name it! Was it the '00's,' pronounced as in 'Oh?' If so, oh, what a decade that was.

Area health departments last week rated 13 food establishments as conditionally satisfactory for health code violations and restored five others to satisfactory ratings after reinspections.

The lone survivor of a fishing boat accident off the coast of southern New Jersey has been released from the hospital.

Coast Guard crews continue to search for two Virginia men missing after a 38-foot fishing boat sank off the coast of southern New Jersey.

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Thanks to the crew of the Cock Robin fishing boat, here, several local families received a Christmas treat this week they will probably never forget.

The Ocean County Library will present six unique workshops designed to equip teens as they mature, library staff said.

Snow is falling heavily throughout Monmouth and Ocean counties, with at least 10 to 15 inches expected before the weekend is out.

Despite the frigid rain that fell steadily on Sunday, there was something besides wood-burning stoves to warm the residents of the homeless camp off of Cedar Bridge Avenue.

Three people have been indicted by an Ocean County grand jury for allegedly taking part in the armed robbery of a Brick gas station attendant last year.

" On Tuesday, after one and a half months of rehabilitation at Miami Seaquarium, Ilya the wayward manatee was released back into the familiar waters of his home state.

Employers this month are walking a careful line by throwing holiday parties that are decidedly less lavish than they were before the recession, catering companies at the Shore said.

Merrielle Clark relies on an eight-word rhyme to describe her half-decade pull from the muck.

Taxpayers, here, could be saddled with a $554,891 tax increase next year, should the borough's employees remain on their current health care and prescription plans through 2010.

The Ocean Road School PTO will be accepting donations from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 18 and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Dec.

Authorities have charged a Brick woman with vehicular homicide in connection with the death of a lawyer who was struck by a car as he walked along Route 35 in the Ocean Beach section last month.