Cape May County News

From May 17 until May 19, police in Wildwood and Lower Township investigated several overdoses, according to an announcement from Cape May County Prosecutor Robert L. Taylor, Wildwood Police Chief Steven Long and Lower Township Chief Brian Marker.

On June 19th 2013 the regular monthly meetings of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society will be held for the 1st time in Cape May County.

With one week to go before the unofficial, official start to the summer tourist season, Mother Nature appears to ready to make amends for last year's natural disasters with a Memorial Day South Jersey tourist officials would dream about.

The Coast Guard came to the aid of a boater whose 19-foot boat ran aground on a sandbar in southern New Jersey this weekend.

As the end of the school year quickly approaches, you're probably wondering just what to do with the kids.

Six years after Danny Burroughs went missing from his home in the Mays Landing section of Hamilton Township, New Jersey home, investigators say they have found his body parts in the home of his ex-wife, Loretta Burroughs.

Desiderio makes Ed Rendell look like Rip Van Winkle. When spirits were at their worst in town after Sandy, he organized what he has called the world's longest ribbon-cutting, opening the ocean during Presidents' Day weekend with a ribbon the length of the Sea Isle Promenade, about two miles, with hundreds of people holding it up.

Area residents, veterans, military history buffs and patriots expect to gather at the World War II Tower here on Saturday, May 18 to celebrate Armed Forces Day.

South Jersey morning temperatures dipped to the freezing mark on Tuesday, May 14, a day when most thoughts are fixed on summer barbeques, trips to the beach and days on the golf course.

Ocean County's freeholders are standing in opposition to a state Senate bill that, if approved, would permit counties to take over the operation of beaches within its jurisdiction.

Ocean City High School , Mainland Regional High School and Egg Harbor Township High School were recently named to Newsweek's "America's Best High Schools" list.

It's an enduring image of Hurricane Sandy's destruction of the Jersey Shore and its coastal communities.

Not long ago, the chances of seeing an eagle in New Jersey were almost infinitesimal.

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Most of the Senate Budget Committee's votes went along party lines, with one notable exception.

The state's Economic Development Authority approved a program May 1 making grants of up to $50,000 available to small businesses affected by Hurricane Sandy.

Walter Aubrey, 66, was arrested May 7 as a result of a joint investigation by the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office Narcotics Task Force, Ocean City Police Department, and Wildwood Police Department, according to officials.

It's an enduring image of Hurricane Sandy's destruction of the Jersey Shore and its coastal communities.

AtlantiCare provides about 70 percent of the health care in Atlantic County at its AtlantiCare Regional Medical Centers in Atlantic City and Pomona and its Urgent Care centers throughout the county.

The deck of the 34th Street Bridge connecting Ocean City to Upper Township was scheduled to be rehabilitated in the fall of 2013, but in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Cape May County engineer Dale Foster said the work will not begin until at least the fall of 2014.