Barnegat

The Ocean County Prosecutor and Barnegat Police are looking for a Florida man charged with scamming $10,000 from an elderly Barnegat man by claiming it was cash bail to get his nephew out of jail.

A GoFundMe account has been established for the South Jersey woman who died the morning after Christmas in a wrong-way crash on the Garden State Parkway in Barnegat.

Cops say a suspicious man with a chilled bottle of wine was arrested Tuesday morning in Hamilton Township.

Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.

"Shut up", "Go get your husband and I'll smack him around a little", "You're an old ugly hag" - just some of the comments made to a worker at the Costco in Manahawkin during an incident caught on video.

Some tense moments in Barnegat as school officials and police dealt with a threat to Brackman Middle School.

It was a heartbreaking scene outside of the Whiting Veterinary Clinic last Friday, as a retired K9, Bullet, took his final steps, surrounded by fellow K9 heroes and officers.

Alfonso Cirulli said sexual preference is a "mindset" and there is no comparison between a person's sexual preference and racial or ethnic discrimination.

The Ocean County Sheriff's Department arrested a 35-year-old Barnegat man last week after he allegedly offered an 11-year-old girl candy and a wine cooler if she would lift her shirt and let him touch her.

A 72-year-old man is facing a third-degree aggravated assault charge after an alleged road-rage incident took a wrong turn.

The Barnegat schools superintendent is defending the way officials handled a tenure case against a coach and teacher accused of inappropriately touching female students.

Officials in Barnegat have declared a local state of emergency and are requiring some residents to evacuate by 10 p.m. Friday night.