News Staff Atlantic city will use about $3.75 million in federal grants to hire 30 new police officers, officials said Monday. The money will be used to hire school resource and traffic safety officers, police said in a news release. “Public safety is a top priority of my administration, and we are constantly looking for ways to … Read more
According to the press of atlantic city Steve Norton, who ran the first U.S. gambling facility outside Nevada – Resorts casino in Atlantic City – and gave advice around the world on how to set up and operate casinos, has died. He was 89.His son, Rob, president of Cordish Gaming, said Norton died Sunday following … Read more
Voters of Dennis Township rejected a ballot question that would have appropriated nearly $1.3 million for the school district in the Tuesday, Nov. 7, election, meaning that teachers laid off at the end of the last school year will not be rehired or replaced. The Cape May County Herald reports the vote against the measure … Read more
City of Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small, Sr. and Atlantic City Police Department Chief James Sarkos are announcing the city has been awarded a $3,750,000 Community Oriented Policing Services Hiring Grant. The city received funding that will include the addition of School Resource Officers. School Resource Officers serve as a valuable resource for students, staff, … Read more
The Atlantic City Police Department arrested a stabbing victim after he dropped a handgun from his bag. On November 11, 2023, at 5:32 AM, patrol officers responded to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and Arctic Avenues for a man reporting that he was stabbed. Officers arrived to find 35 year old Marcus Martineau suffering … Read more
Construction is nearly complete on a dune that the city and the state Department of Environmental Protection agreed should be installed in front of the North Wildwood Beach Patrol headquarters at 15th Avenue and the beach. According to the Cape May County Herald, the collaboration between the city and the DEP to get the dune … Read more
A Philadelphia man was arrested after he was found in possession of a gun and drugs Saturday. Police say 28 year old Tereen Fowler took off from detectives in the 2500 block of Pacific Avenue. Polc e seized 32 individual bags of heroin and more than 15 grams of cocaine from him. Fowler was seen … Read more
Atlantic City Police made a massive drug bust recently when they seized more than 10,000 individual bags of heroin and over a pound of cocaine at a home on Caspian Avenue.Detectives with the city’s Special Investigations Section had been watching an apartment on the 1300 block of Caspian Avenue they thought was being used to … Read more
According to the press of atlantic city a Philadelphia man died from his wound after he was found shot in the head inside a car Friday afternoon in the resort area of Atlantic City. Police arrived to the 1900 block of Grant Avenue and found Khalid Scott Jr., 26, in the driver’s seat of a … Read more
The Cape May Army National Guard held its first 5-mile ruck march and food drive for the community. According to military organizers about 20 members of the national guard and a handful of veterans filled rucksacks with up to 60 pounds of canned goods and nonperishable food items and took the 4-mile trek to one … Read more