Ocean County News

A night watchman reclaims his streets >> >> >> >> >> As Christie visits, Ocean County vents Saturday, November 07, 2009 and lisa fleisher After spending the first two days following his Election Day win touring Democratic communities, Republican Gov.-elect Chris Christie met with mayors from conservative Ocean County yesterday to hear them vent ...

The state's Council on Affordable Housing 'has to be gutted' and the state Department of Environmental Protection transformed into a 'more effective, efficient, consumer-friendly agency,' Gov.-elect Chris Christie said in a roundtable meeting today with Ocean County mayors.

Civil-rights advocates are planning to march at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Ocean County administration building to protest a decision by the freeholders not to allow a dying employee to leave her pension benefit to her same-sex domestic partner.

A two-story clapboard house here is the epicenter of one of the Republican Party's most crucial get-out-the-vote operations in the state.

Ocean County Freeholders John C. Bartlett Jr. and Gerry P. Little, and Sheriff William L. Polhemus, all Republican incumbents, were re-elected in landslide victories Tuesday.

Republicans trounced Democrats in all but two races across Ocean County on Tuesday, winning control of the Berkeley Township Council for the first time in more than 10 years and vanquishing the remnants of an era in which Democrats dominated the political landscape of Brick.

Ocean County residents whose right to vote is challenged today can go before Superior Court Judge Arnold B. Goldman, who is staffing the bench at the Ocean County Courthouse.

" Chris Goldstein of CMMNJ debates Terrence Farley on the topic of medical marijuana in New Jersey.

Less than 36 hours before the polls open, Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie asked party faithful in Republican-heavy Ocean County to vote _ and to remind their friends and neighbors to do the same.

A 42-year-old Freehold man was charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to a criminal complaint.

It was in March of 2006 when Tanisha Sosa first looked to hire a contractor to build an addition on her Beachwood home so that her aging, sick father could move in with her.

After nearly three years of waiting, residents of Bay Beach Way, in Toms River, may soon be calling Lavallette home.

Several branches of Ocean County Library will be collecting nonperishable food during November.

One woman has died and four are injured after a head-on collision between two sports utility vehicles on Route 72, police said in a report in the Asbury Park Press.

A Toms River pediatrician who surrendered his license amid allegations that he gave expired vaccines to children was criminally charged Tuesday in a 12-count indictment that includes an accusation of taking pornographic photographs of a young patient without her knowledge.

The Ocean County Clerk will offer extended hours to accommodate voters who wish to apply in person for an absentee ballot for the upcoming general election next Tuesday.

Police say about 1,000 people were turned away after doses of swine flu vaccine ran out at a New Jersey flu shot clinic.

A 94-year-old woman injured earlier this month when her house caught fire has died, authorities said.

The small Ocean County community of Ocean Gate is the first New Jersey community to install a wind turbine.

Ocean County Library continues to promote literacy by offering conversation groups to people who are just learning to speak English.