The popular Chef Mike’s Atlantic Bar & Grill and Island Beach Motor Lodge will be demolished to make room for an expensive residential development in South Seaside Park. Both 24th Street and Central Avenue homes will change hands on October 1. The new owners say demolition of the motel will commence later that month. After…
Eugene Richardson turns 100. One of the last Tuskegee Airmen in existence. Richardson celebrated his 100th birthday in Springfield, Pennsylvania, with over 100 family, friends, and fans. His life inspired many Americans and broke down black-white barriers. He worked hard and succeeded to join a famous unit that altered the U.S. military from a boy…
A Gloucester County, New Jersey woman is suing police for leaving her vulnerable during a dawn raid two years ago. This month, Cumberland County Superior Court indicted the lady for breaking into her boyfriend’s residence at 6 a.m. naked. A robe immediately covered her, but it slid off while she was in shackles in the…
Mount Holly’s 25-year-old man was shot and killed in a park on Monday night, bringing family grief and calls for justice. At Mill Dam Park, family-identified Andre Ross was shot in the back, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor. The police found Ross dead in Wollner Drive park at 5:48 p.m. Ross, who lived across…
When two Jersey City sisters gave birth to healthy baby boys minutes apart at Hoboken University Medical Center earlier this week, it was an unusual and touching coincidence. At 9:25 a.m. on Monday, Sulian Datt gave birth to her third child, Noah, a boy. Noah was 7 pounds 12 ounces, arriving somewhat early on October…
A federal judge recently struck down two crucial claims in a case brought by a former Jersey City aide, but left his broader retaliatory and constitutional concerns intact, prolonging a political, familial, and public-employee revenge litigation. After being fired in August 2024, Jersey City employee Jonathan Gomez Noriega, who was on the LGBTQ+ task force,…
The GOP wants to honor conservative activist Charlie Kirk with a silver dollar coin. Congress will examine a Treasury plan to make 400,000 coins bearing Kirk’s photo, full name, and 2026 later this week. The opposite would say “well done, good and faithful servant,” underlining Kirk’s action and beliefs. Texas Rep. August Pfluger and Arizona…
Two young brothers bravely defended their father from a knife attack on a New Brunswick street Friday afternoon. Neighbours and police were alerted to the daylight confrontation near French and Louis Streets. Court filings show that 42-year-old Joshaun L. Williams hurriedly shouted out to a 39-year-old acquaintance and his two sons from across the street…
Ruth Turner, the new administrator of a New Jersey school system, discovered a $18 million deficit due to years of poor bookkeeping and mismanagement in her first weeks. Turner and the new business administrator said the district’s financials didn’t stack up. They found enormous amounts of unpaid bills, incomplete ledgers, and accounting carelessness when they…
After discovering that her father’s cremains were never buried at the family cemetery, a New Jersey woman sued. Her father’s grave was empty, as the remains were boxed in a funeral parlor. Debbie Uraga sued John F. Pfleger Funeral Home and Mount Olivet Cemetery in Union County Superior Court. After her father, George Jonas, died…
