Weekend Briefs From WOBM News
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View ArticleMajor Road Work Starts On Route 71
A major roadway improvement will be coming to drivers of Monmouth County. Read More|Comment
View ArticleEstranged Husband of a Red Bank Woman Indicted in Her Murder
An Eatontown man is indicted for the alleged murder of his estranged wife. Read More|Comment
View ArticleNew FEMA Funding Targets Monmouth, LBI
Five coastal Monmouth communities and Beach Haven on Long Beach Island are in line for $12,900,000 in storm cleanup costs through the second round of grants by the Federal Emergency Management Agency....
View ArticleEx-Eatontown Cop Gets Probation for Sex Coercion
Former Eatontown Police detective Philip Emanuele was given five years' probation today, for his guilty plea to criminal coercion and evidence tampering. Read More|Comment
View ArticleCommunities Around Ft. Monmouth Prepare For Growth [AUDIO]
The superstorm affected communities of Eatontown, Oceanport and Tinton Falls are taking a wait-and-see approach as their populations begin to swell on a neighboring shuttered military base. Read...
View ArticleThird of Four Suspects in 2008 Eatontown Murder-Robbery Convicted
Legal proceedings remain for only one of four suspects accused of gunning an Eatontown man to death in his apartment nearly five years ago. A Monmouth County Superior Court jury in Freehold Friday...
View ArticleEatontown Man Charged With Bomb Threat Spree
An Eatontown 21-year-old is accused of placing the string of bomb threats that plagued store owners in a West Long Branch shopping center this past Sunday and Monday. Read More|Comment
View ArticleJCP&L Unveils $200M in Upgrades for 2013
With the bulk of superstorm repairs behind them, Jersey Central Power and Light officials disclose an ambitious $200,000,000 plan to reinforce service to high-growth areas as well as hurricane-ravaged...
View ArticleWarble the National Anthem at First Energy Park
Attention budding singers: Your chance to star on one of Ocean County's biggest stages is about to arrive. Read More|Comment
View ArticleEx-Birdsall Engineering CEO, Execs Indicted in Pay-to-Play Evasion Probe
The former CEO of one of New Jersey's most powerful engineering firms and six other executives are under indictment, charged with conspiring to sidestep the state's Pay-to-Play Act by using company...
View ArticleBirdsall Admits Pay-To-Play Violations, Owes State Millions
Birdsall Services Group, the Eatontown engineering fire at the center of a broadening probe of illegal political contributions in New Jersey, today admitted pumping more than a half-million dollars...
View ArticleFourth Defendant in 2008 Eatontown Murder Convicted
The last of four defendants to be found guilty in connection with the shooting death of a victim from Eatontown in 2008 awaits an April 17 sentencing date. Read More|Comment Continue reading…
View ArticleA False Fire Alarm Leads to Chaos at the Monmouth Mall Movie Theater in...
Panicked moviegoers thought there were trapped inside the AMC Loews Theater at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown Saturday knight when a fire alarm sounded and the emergency doors remained locked. Read...
View ArticleAdmitted Wife-Killer Given 27 Years in Prison
The Eatontown husband who confessed to killing his estranged wife in 2011, burying her remains in a shallow grave near the Parkway in Aberdeen, and leaving two sons motherless, can expect to spend up...
View ArticleNeptune Man Sentenced in Connection with a 2008 Murder
A Neptune man will spend 40 years in New Jersey state prison for his role in the 2008 murder of 24-year-old Nathaniel Wiggins of Eatontown, announced Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J....
View ArticleEatontown Psychologist Joins Marlboro Rehab Center
The mission of returning substance abusers to the productive lives they left behind takes a forward step in Marlboro. Read More|Comment Continue reading…
View ArticleJoyride Lands Tinton Falls Man in Ocean County Jail
Apparently, Joseph Stanavich of Tinton Falls had a good reason to ignore police lights and keep tooling along Route 37 in Toms River in a pickup truck Friday. Authorities say it was stolen in...
View Article44 Indicted in Monmouth Gun and Drug Sweep
The Asbury Park police officer and 43 others caught up in a massive probe of gun trafficking and street crime in Monmouth County now face the prospect of plea deals or trials. Read More|Comment...
View ArticleBig Rally in Eatontown Against A Proposed LNG Terminal
There's going to be a rally tomorrow at the Sheraton Hotel in Eatontown just before a public hearing about a proposed liquified natural gas facility (LNG). A bi-state coalition of advocacy,...
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