Firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze on the boardwalk in Atlantic City Thursday night. The call came in around 7:15 p.m. Thursday for heavy flames showing in the rear of the Central Pier near Tennessee Avenue. WPVI reports the flames spread below the pier and to several nearby structures within the property. Some of the businesses … Read more
A school bus driver is being hailed as a hero after a fire on the Garden State Parkway in South Jersey. The call came in around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday for a fire near mile marker 20.6 in Upper Township. Officials tell WPVI that 10 students and a bus driver were all able to escape the … Read more
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. said Thursday he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter. According to the Press of Atlantic City, in his first public comments since prosecutors on Monday charged him and his wife, LaQuetta, the … Read more
Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. said Thursday he remains committed to his family and to his city as he deals with charges that he and his wife abused their teenage daughter. The Press of Atlantic City reports in his first public comments since prosecutors on Monday charged him and his wife, LaQuetta, the city’s … Read more
Wednesday afternoon, Galloway Township Police received a call regarding a deceased male in a residence on the 400 block of South Odessa Avenue. Upon police arrival, they located the victim, Shawn P. O’Neill Jr., 42, of Galloway Township inside the residence with several wounds to his body. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office’s Major Crimes Unit … Read more
56 year old Kevin McAnally of Absecon faces charges after police officers responded to a fight at Dr. Jonathan Pitney Recreational Park on Morton Avenue just after 5 p.m. Investigators said a man asked McAnally to stop smoking marijuana in front of his underage siblings. McAnally “reacted aggressively” and threatened the man. Officers immediately found … Read more
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez is urging the new acting secretary of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over the Atlantic City Housing Authority. The Press of Atlantic City reports Menendez Thursday talked about ongoing conditions such as water and gas leaks, mold, lack of heat and hot water and more about … Read more
Gambling records are being set, but not in person. New Jersey’s high-flying internet gambling market continues to soar. But the amount of money won from in-person gamblers at most of Atlantic City’s casinos is less than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.Figures released Tuesday by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement show the casinos … Read more
Recovery Centers of America announced Wednesday that its Lighthouse location has partnered with Addiction Recovery Systems of Somers Point to continue methadone medication treatment for patients staying at the center. The collaboration broadens the organization’s ability to fight the opioid crisis and will allow the facility to accept inpatient-level patients already maintaining a methadone dosage … Read more
A group of residents in the Chelsea Heights neighborhood asked the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority to just say no to expanding the city’s weed-friendly green zone.With several new cannabis businesses opening up and more in the works, city officials say the new industry is just getting started and will mean jobs, revenue and new life … Read more