Monmouth County News

The Highlands Police Department Street Crimes Unit developed information through a 5-month-long investigation into narcotic sales which led to the department executing a narcotics search warrant at 30 Navesink Avenue on November 19, 2009.

After jurors announced they were deadlocked, a Superior Court judge this morning declared a mistrial in the case of a former township man accused of trying to kill his divorce lawyer after losing custody of his children.

A New Jersey veterinarian has pleaded guilty to failing to properly care for a parrot that was kept as an office pet and died when temperatures fell.

Hundreds of Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore have made it their mission to feed the hungry this holiday season hoping to make the world a better place for many in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

Bail has been set at $1.25 million for a New Jersey man accused of leading a Monmouth County-based heroin trafficking network.

Dr Daniel Goldberg, a renowned cornea, cataract and LASIK eye surgeon in NJ, announces the addition of the Zeiss-Meditec Visante Omni technology to his Laser Vision center in Little Silver. The Omni is the most advanced technology for LASIK and corneal analysis and provides the most precise and unique assessment for screening abnormal corneas.

Visante OCT delivers valuable pre- and post-surgical information for use in excimer laser surgery and corneal transplants as well as pre-and post-glaucoma surgical care and phakic IOL implantations. The OCT will image intraocular lens implants and aid in diagnosis of proper intraocular lens size and position

Monmouth County authorities said today they disrupted a major drug distribution operation responsible for dumping large quantities of heroin in the county's Bayshore area.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office will hold a press conference this afternoon to announce the arrest of 20 people as part of a year-long undercover drug investigation.

Nicholas Lucarella was so angry over losing custody of his three sons that he hired two men from Passaic County to kill his former Red Bank divorce lawyer in 2002, a prosecutor told jurors in Monmouth County today.

A longtime financial adviser from Monmouth County pleaded guilty today to bilking investors out of more than $9 million, authorities said.

November 17, 2009 -- The Dad Vail Regatta is pulling its oars out of the Schuylkill River.

Last week's northeast gale dished out the worst shoreline damage to coastal Monmouth and Ocean counties in more than a decade, from wrecked cabanas in Sea Bright to undermined oceanfront homes on Long Beach Island.

A 25-year-old man was arrested this weekend for allegedly stabbing a partygoer at a house where he had been just kicked out, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.

A Monmouth County man was struck and killed while attempting to cross Route 9 at the intersection of East Freehold Road in Freehold this morning, according to a report in the Asbury Park Press.

A North Jersey lawyer denied witness allegations that he was the real culprit at the trial of a former Millstone Township man charged with orchestrating the nearly fatal 2002 hit-and-run of his Red Bank-based family law attorney.

The fire that destroyed a Cedar Avenue home Thursday was accidental, authorities have determined.

A man convicted in the 2007 hit-and-run death of 39-year-old Theresa Kling of Freehold Township maintained he was innocent before he was sentenced to eight years in state prison.

A burglary suspect arrested in Old Bridge earlier this week is now being held on dozens of charges from that township, Sayreville and her hometown in Monmouth County, authorities said.

Prepare for plenty of tidal flooding and beach erosion in New Jersey. The remnants of Tropical Depression Ida off the Carolina coast and strong high pressure to the north are generating gusty northeast winds that are expected to affect the area through Friday, according to the National Weather Service.

Attorney Paul Bergrin will remain in prison, but he no longer can be kept in solitary confinement, a federal judge ruled today.