News Staff Hundreds packed Pete Pallitto Field on Fairmount Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Atlantic City Tuesday evening to take part in National Night Out. The Press of Atlantic City reports outside the Police Department, members of the city’s Fire Department attended and had a firetruck on display for kids to take pictures in Throughout the … Read more
Atlantic County Commissioner and longtime local leader Ernest Coursey has died. BreakingAC.com reports Coursey announced in January that he would not seek re-election due to health concerns. The lifelong Atlantic City resident started his political career 34 years ago, when he became Atlantic City’s Third Ward councilman.
26 year old Ibn Demps of Atlantic City has pleaded guilty on two separate indictments to aggravated assault and certain persons not to possess weapons. Demps is expected to be sentenced to an aggregate term of eight years in New Jersey State Prison. On September 21, 2022, members of the Atlantic City Police Department responded … Read more
Jacqueline Silver-Morillo has been named the new director of the Atlantic City Free Public Library.“I’m honored to step into the role of Library Director in the city where I was born, raised and where my roots run deep – a place that shaped who I am and still holds my family today,” she said in … Read more
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has threatened to pull $54 million for a long-planned beach and dune project for the Wildwoods, citing the state’s failure to get needed real estate agreements.An attorney representing North Wildwood, where beach erosion is at its most severe, on Thursday asked Superior Court Judge Susan Sheppard for a hearing … Read more
An Atlantic City man was arrested Monday after he allegedly shot and killed the son of a city councilwoman outside a motel last week, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said.According to the Press of Atlantic City Lamar M. Johnson, 26, who also goes by Sheldon Ward, is charged with murder, aggravated assault, aggravated assault with … Read more
An Atlantic City man is charged in the killing of a councilwoman’s son last week. According to BreakingAC.com, 26 year old Lamar Johnson is charged with murder and weapons offenses in the killing at the Martinique Motel last Monday night. 28 year old Kendell Roseborough was pronounced dead at the scene at 3029 Pacific Ave. … Read more
An Atlantic City man is accused of promoting prostitution at his spa in Delaware. According to BreakingAC.com, 66 year old Edward Yazbeck is charged with second-degree promoting prostitution, along with misdemeanor criminal nuisance and unlicensed massage establishment. Drug and Human Trafficking Investigations Team detectives arrested Yazbeck with help from the Delaware Department of Justice’s Human … Read more
More than 100 people showed up Friday, at least half of them with skateboards, as organizers and city officials helped dedicate the latest addition to the resort’s recreational options, an Inlet skatepark.According to the Press of Atlantic City the weather was cool and damp, but the enthusiasm was apparent as several generations of skateboarders took … Read more
Joe Foglio Jr., who served 31 years with the Ocean City Fire Department, including 11 years as chief, died Monday from pancreatic cancer. The Upper Township resident was 67.Foglio was born in Somers Point in 1957 and graduated from Ocean City High School in 1975, where he was captain of the boys basketball team, according … Read more