An Atlantic City police officer awarded more than $323,000 in back pay after he was cleared in an excessive force case last year is back on unpaid suspension. 39 year old Sterling Wheaten was arrested Tuesday, after he allegedly assaulted a woman, according to charges out of Bucks County in Pennsylvania. Wheaten, who lives in … Read more
Two Atlantic County residents were killed in a head-on crash Wednesday afternoon on a rural road within the Wharton State Forest. The Press of Atlantic City reports 22 year old Maureen Hanna of Pleasantville, and 36 year old Latoya Sotomayor of Egg Harbor Township, were fatally injured in the crash in Washington Township, when they … Read more
Update on a story we told yout about earlier. A Barnegat township man has been charged in the murders of his parents, an incident that also caused the temporary sheltering-in-place of area schools. 34 year old Michael Mulgrew is accused of stabbing 71 year old Eugene Mulgrew and 69 year old Cheryl Mulgrew to death. … Read more
The owners of a home in the Courts section of Stone Harbor have sued the borough over an ordinance that restricts property owners in that section from increasing the size of their homes. According to the Cape May County Herald, Kara and Kyle Sweet, who this summer were denied variances to build a 1,300-square-foot, two-story … Read more
Reconstruction work on the Wildwoods Boardwalk can continue after the company that bid on the project sued over what it considered deficiencies in a contract between the city and its competitor. According to the Press of Atlantic City, L. Feriozzi Concrete Company sued on Oct. 11 to invalidate a contract between Wildwood and Fred M. … Read more
Authorities were investigating a double homicide in Barnegat Township that drove local schools into temporary shelter-in-place orders on Thursday. According to the Press of Atlantic City, the double killing happened on Lincoln Avenue in the township, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. The agency said a suspect was in custody, and the … Read more
According to the Press of Atlantic City a majority of voters in the state support term and age limits for elected leaders serving at both the state and federal levels, according to a poll released Wednesday by the William J. Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton University.Nearly 72% of residents polled said elected officials … Read more
A Pleasantville man is accused of robbing a bank in late September. Jamarl S. Johnson, 34, was charged with robbery, terroristic threats and theft in the alleged robbery of the PNC Bank in the 900 block of the Black Horse Pike on Sept. 29, police said Wednesday in a news release. He is being held … Read more
Authoirities in Atlantic City say another hearing is scheduled for Friday morning since Political organizer Craig Callaway was a no-show at a hearing before Superior Court Judge Michael Blee on Wednesday, where Atlantic County Democrats were asking for an injunction to keep him from assisting any more voters in this election. The Atlantic County Democratic … Read more
Robbery and terroristic threats charges fadce a Pleasantville man charged with a late-September bank hold up. 34 year old Jamarl S. Johnson is accused of going into the PNC Bank in the 900 block of the Black Horse Pike on Sept. 29, and robbed the bank. Police were summoned there by a silent hold up … Read more