Toms River News

Multiple Emmy Award-winning, nationally renowned senior meteorologist Bill Evans will promote his new book, "Frozen Fire," at 7 p.m. Monday at the Ocean County Library, library staff said.

A Howell woman remains hospitalized today after she was injured in a one-car accident on the Garden State Parkway Tuesday, authorities said.

Fine. Go ahead. Consider New Jersey the dumping ground for New York. But do you also have to keep the Statue of Liberty at just that angle, giving New Jersey a perpetual view of the lady's backside? That was the question posed by Lee Dawson, a 50-year-old former Elizabeth resident who now calls Alabama home and who visited Lady Liberty earlier this ...

An Ocean County grand jury has accused a 56-year-old Toms River woman of stealing about $18,000 from a charity.

Police Chief Michael Mastronardy said the fight started when Pedro Garcia, 24, and his brother Antonio Garcia, 27, found a group of men with a baseball bat breaking the window of a car parked in a driveway near their Roberts Road home.

It has been almost 50 years since Riverwood Park first welcomed neighborhood children to its grounds.

The head of a local military youth academy has been arrested and charged with distributing child pornography.

At least four men suffered stab wounds in a brawl that broke out over a broken car window on Roberts Avenue off Walnut Street about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday, police said.

A fundraiser will be held July 10 for Elizabeth Burns, a 7-year-old resident who needs a combined liver and kidney transplant to survive.

A sexual abuse lawsuit against a former pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Freehold has been amended to include a second plaintiff who has come forward with allegations that he was sexually abused by the Roman Catholic priest during an overnight trip to a spa resort about 25 years ago, when the clergyman was assigned to St.

Upgraded charges against a 20-year-old Lacey man landed him back in jail after the victim died as a result of injuries from an alleged June 3 hit-and-run crash on the Garden State Parkway, officials said.

An Asbury Park man was shot at about 12:30 a.m. today at Belmont Drive and Charles Avenue, authorities are reporting.

Many homeowners in New Jersey are losing their homestead rebate checks. Swimmers get less time to take a dip in a south Jersey lake.

TOMS RIVER - Many homeowners in New Jersey are losing their homestead rebate checks.

TOMS RIVER, N.J. - A man who fatally injured his girlfriend's infant daughter by shaking and squeezing her has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

The township council adopted an ordinance approving a redevelopment plan for the northwest quadrant of Routes 166 and 37, an area that officials say has long been in need of development.

A 21-year-old concertgoer stuffed into the luggage compartment of a commercial bus in New Jersey was discovered in Lancaster County as the vehicle traveled through West Hempfield Township, police told the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal.

Toms River Family Fun Day will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at the Department of Youth Services, 1505 N. Bay Ave.

TOMS RIVER - There's no better time of year than summer to enjoy the sweet creaminess of ice cream and there's no better place to indulge your taste buds than at the 7th Annual New Jersey State Ice Cream Festival on Saturday, July 18.

Police have charged a Manchester man with burglarizing a Route 34 business last year.