FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — A "conciliator" from the U.S. Department of Justice met Monday with local officials and high school students in an effort to restore harmony in the wake of a melee last month involving police, parents and high school students. Full Story »
SAYREVILLE — Authorities say a Seton Hall University men's basketball player was drunk when he caused a wrong-way crash on the Garden State Parkway. Full Story »
NEWARK — Customs officials have arrested a man they say tried to smuggle 8 pounds of heroin in his luggage on a flight from Guatemala City to Newark Liberty International Airport. Full Story »
RAHWAY — Five northern New Jersey communities that received swine flu vaccine over the weekend didn't get enough syringes. Full Story »
BERKELEY — A public hearing on an action plan the township must complete before it can redevelop the area around the old Beachwood Plaza will take place at tonight's Township Council meeting. Full Story »
OCEAN TOWNSHIP — Police said they charged a township teen with using someone else's driver's license to buy beer this weekend. Full Story »
RED BANK — After 34 years pounding a beat, working his way up through the ranks and then leading the borough Police Department, Chief Mark Fitzgerald has decided to call it a career. Full Story »
An invasive foreign plant is rapidly making inroads in New Jersey's critical dune systems, and Louise Wootton wants to stop it in its tracks. Full Story »
BELMAR — After provisional ballots were counted, Matthew J. Doherty held on to his 18-vote margin of victory for a second term on the Borough Council. Full Story »
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LAKEWOOD — A $1 million gang-prevention grant application presumed dead last week was revived Monday as individuals and groups offered to provide the township's matching portion of the award, officials said. Full Story »
KEYPORT — One lone vote appears to have given the election of a Borough Council seat to incumbent Democrat Christian Bolte. Full Story »
With the five-year anniversary of the Operation Bid Rig arrests approaching, the Monmouth County Board of Freeholders will vote Tuesday on creating a government watchdog board, but passage may be difficult against resistance from minority Republicans. Full Story »
It's but a ghost of what was 100 years ago, but Monday's opening of the weeklong Mullica River oyster season was good enough for veteran waterman Charlie Park to tow his boat halfway across South Jersey. Full Story »
JACKSON — Police are searching for the robbers who held up a store at the Jackson Premium Outlets, duct-taping one employee and forcing another to open a safe at gunpoint, authorities said. Full Story »
LACEY — A man who allegedly was too drunk to buy a bottle of blackberry brandy was arrested Friday night after he hit a liquor store employee in the face with the bottle, police said. Full Story »
KEYPORT — A lone vote has decided the election for one of two open Borough Council seats. Full Story »
BRICK — The search for two armed men who held up a Route 70 bank prompted a lockdown at three area schools Monday afternoon. Full Story »
TRENTON — A Millstone man who admitted earlier this year to stealing nearly $700,000 from investors in a Ponzi scheme has been sentenced to three years in state prison. Full Story »
WALL — A gas line project is expected to cause traffic delays on Belmar Boulevard this month. Full Story »
HOLMDEL — Speaking German with friends or with family is a crucial part of learning and retaining the language for the offspring of the recent immigrants from Deutschland. Full Story »
SEASIDE PARK — The year 2007 was a dark one for the Seaside Park Police Department. Full Story »
LONG BRANCH — Monmouth Medical Center's Center for Diabetes Education will present a free diabetic foot screening from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday. Conducted by Monmouth Medical Center podiatrist Frances C. Fittanto, the screening is at the Center for Diabetes Education in the hospital's Maysie Stroock Pavilion. Full Story »
In Dorothea Drew's Middletown household, the Frankfurt native speaks to her bilingual children in German while her American husband speaks to them in English. Full Story »
LACEY — Several hundred people came together Sunday afternoon in Lacey High School's auditorium to pay tribute to a graduate who reached his life's dream of being an Air Force fighter pilot and whose devotion to family, God and country were described as inspirational. Full Story »
A morning moonset peeks through the autumn foliage near Bradfordton, Ill. AP Photo/Seth Perlman
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