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Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Video: Animals at Popcorn Park Zoo Come Out of Hibernation for Spring Fest Belmar Home Destroyed by Fire Had Been Set for Foreclosure Sale Additional BB Gun Incidents as Two More Report Windows Shot Out Challenger Candidates in BOE Race Will File Complaint Against Ryan Over Campaign Signs
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Brick Police Raid Motel, Arrest Four on Drug Charges Car-Vs.-Building Collision Causes Minor Damage The Michael Stacy Memorial Scholarship Fund Second Annual Golf Outing to be Held on May 9 MMA Champ Frankie Edgar at Elite Wrestling's Grand Opening
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Fire Devastates Home in Baywood Section, Cause Under Investigation Pine Lake Park Burglary Suspects Charged Space Constraints an Issue at Current Animal Facility County-owned Lochiel Creek To Become A Walking Park
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Police Chief's Home Among Five Burglarized Two Forked River Residents Injured in Car Fire Barnegat High School Students Question BOE Candidates Reptiles Take Over West Long Branch Library
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: College Building Evacuated Due to Mechanical Fire and Blackout Township Officials Call for Immediate Closure of Oyster Creek Flowers Mark Site of Deadly ATV Accident Barnegat Says 'No' to Two Habitat for Humanity Houses on Harpoon Drive
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Point Pleasant Beach Police Asking or the Public's Help Catching TV Bandits Man Killed in ATV Accident Named School Authorities Tell Student Candidate for BOE to Remove Campaign Sign from Car Crash Victim Remembered as Stellar Teammate
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Train Crash Death of Point Pleasant Woman Ruled Suicide Ciba-Geigy Corp. Proposes Multimillion-Dollar Settlement Lawsuit: Check Cashing Ban Unconstitutional Route 72 Gulf Gas Station Owner Seeks to Keep Waste-Disposal Trucks and Containers on Site
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Two Lanoka Harbor Men Arrested for Connection to Lacey Liquors Burglary Up To 94 New Affordable Housing Units Planned for Route 9 Parcel Reid to Battle Barrella Again, Rizzo Running for Re-election in Point Pleasant Beach McGuckin Nets Endorsement for Assembly Run
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Route 70 Cleared After Crash Snaps Pole Plumstead Woman Charged with Having Sex With Two 15-Year-Old Boys in Plumstead and at Motel in Point Pleasant Beach Landlord: BellCrest to Remain Retail Shopping Center Varano to Seek Fourth Term as Berkeley Township Mayor
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Boy Recovering After Long Branch Train Accident Public Workers Picket for Collective Bargaining With A&P Scheduled to Close Next Week, Company Mum on Fate of Workers Point Pleasant Borough and Point Pleasant Beach Schools Announce Winners of VFW Essay Contest
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: DEP Proposes Changes to Beach Access Rules Pedestrian Struck Early Sunday on Route 571 Start Your Engines Wednesday is Deadline to Register to Vote in School Elections
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Lions Cheerleaders Roar Past the Competition Traffic Study of Hooper, Fischer and College Drive Points to Jughandle Upgrades UPDATE: Police Report 11 More Damaged Pine Lake Park Vehicles Not A 'Temple,' But A 'Community'
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: If Referendum Fails, Layoffs Could Begin May 13 Proposed 2.8-cent Increase in Township Tax Rate Point Pleasant Beach Dunks Proposal to Make $12,000 More From Boardwalk Games Monmouth University Names King Rice as New Head Basketball Coach
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Criminal Mischief and Arson Reported on Four Area Streets Fifth-grade "Blanketeers" Deliver Comfort Through Service Project Salvatore Replaces Ferraina as Long Branch Schools Superintendent Alumni, Faculty, Students Honored at Annual Hall of Fame Dinner in Point Pleasant Borough
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Head-on Collision Closes Route 9 near Cox Cro Road BOE Details Cuts, Approves Tax Levy Circus Drive-In Opens Despite Foul Weather "Fiddler on the Roof" Opens Tonight at Point Pleasant Borough High School
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: New Jersey Enters Legal Battle Against Nuclear Regulatory Commission Pine Lake Park Vehicles Damaged in Weekend Incidents Proposed Central Regional Budget Includes Tax Hikes for 4 of 5 Towns in District School Board to Present $200.5 Million Budget
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Accidental Death of Public Works Employee at Composting Facility Bayville Volunteer Fire Company Honors One of Its Own Manasquan Hook & Ladder Fires Up The Grill Stop & Shop May Buy Foodtown Stores in Point Pleasant Beach and four towns in Monmouth County
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: 10:30 a.m. Update: Fire Rips Through Long Branch Condominium Complex Building Family of Waretown Man Killed By Police Speaks Out Lawyers Demand Payout of Ritacco's Unused Sick Time and Deferred Compensation Plan Funds Proposed Manchester School Budget Shows Tax Increase
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: PHOTO GALLERY: Everyone is Irish in Seaside Heights Keeping a Barnegat Bay Tradition Alive Hundreds See Belmar's Restaurants Shine Elementary Instructor Named Manchester Teacher of the Year
Follow these links for more on today's featured stories: Police: 8 Homes Destroyed in Ocean Grove Fire Manchester Dentist Accused of Stealing $75,000, Practicing Without License Zoning Board Approves Affordable Housing, Townhouses, Strip Mall for Route 9 NFL Players Come to Lacey for March Madness

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