Middletown school board member Joe Fitzgerald talks to Patch for the first time since he was arrested June 30.
The Monmouth County DWI Task Force will hold a checkpoint Friday night. Get details:
Video was released in the incident where a man wielding a chainsaw was shot and killed by a Keansburg Police officer on May 27, 2024.
The accused was also in possession of a weapon, drug paraphernalia, and other prohibited items, police said.
Photos of the woman have been circulating on social media, as Middletown residents say she harasses drivers along Rt. 35. She's now in jail.
An extramarital affair may be why Middletown BOE member Joe Fitzgerald was headed to someone's home last week with a gun, say prosecutors.
The checkpoint will run from 9 p.m. Friday night to 1 a.m. Saturday morning.
He was released with conditions: He is barred from possessing any weapons and was ordered to surrender his firearms purchaser ID card.
Middletown school board member Joe Fitzgerald was carrying guns the night he was arrested, and was headed to someone's home, said police.
Middletown school board member Joe Fitzgerald remained in the Monmouth County jail over the July 4 holiday weekend.
Joe Fitzgerald, a member of the Middletown school board, was arrested Monday night. He is currently being held at the Monmouth County jail.
A Port Monmouth dad arrested at Saint Mary's May 29 says the Catholic primary school has a problem with not addressing bullying.
An NJ 101.5 reporter said it was during the day, and it was while he and his son were riding bikes between Highlands and Atlantic Highlands.
The driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal and accelerated into the post office at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The man was fatally struck by the North Jersey Coast Line train at approximately 9:06 a.m. Tuesday.
She was hit by a car at approximately 9:30 a.m. Wednesday on Newman Springs Road near the intersection with Hurley's Lane, said police.
Three dogs died in a house fire on Henry Drive in the Belford section Sunday afternoon.
Men from Holmdel, Tinton Falls and Asbury Park ran offices in NYC and Hazlet. They offered fake loans to small businesses, say prosecutors.
Newark Police Officer Joseph Azcona, 25, was killed by a 14-year-old suspect in a shoot-out March 7.
A woman who lived in the home died in the Dakarla Drive fire. Her husband was pulled from the burning home.
Two people were killed in two different house fires that occurred Friday and Saturday, the first in Asbury Park and the other in Middletown.
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At 6 p.m. Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard ended its search for a 52-year-old Bronx man aboard a fishing boat that capsized Sunday.
Police say Timothy Sauers stabbed a woman he was related to in the neck on July 5, 2023 inside a home on Hillside Street.
The man still missing in the ocean has been identified.
The Coast Guard received a distress call at 12:04 p.m. Sunday about a sinking boat five miles south of Breezy Point. One person is missing.
A New Jersey State Police sergeant was found to be calibrating several Alcotest instruments used to take breath samples:
A man got out of a moving vehicle Friday night on the Garden State Parkway in Middletown, and was hit by multiple other cars and killed.
The first allegation received in December did not name the student victim, according to the affidavit, released Thursday.
The 19-year-old Newark man was charged with a new crime in New Jersey: Home-invasion burglary, a first-degree crime with longer prison time.
The Middletown High School North girls’ basketball coach is accused of engaging in a sexual relationship with a student at the school.
A group of Chilean nationals broke into a home in Colts Neck and immediately drove to a short-term rental in Keansburg, said the FBI.
A Tinton Falls man has been charged with invasion of privacy after police in Wayne say he filmed another man in the bathroom of a JCPenney.
He knew where the teen hung out with her friends, and he frequented those areas in his patrol car and while on duty, said the prosecutor.
In freezing conditions, Middletown Police and fire knocked down a fire Wednesday night that could have easily spread to more condos:
Alex Kemp, of Lincroft, died Tuesday after a skiing accident on a black-diamond trail at Jiminy Peak.
Dr. Harsha Sahni, who lives in Tinton Falls and practiced in Colonia, admitted she kept two women from India as low-pay household servants.
The Middletown man who pleaded guilty to stabbing a relative is the same man who was shot by Toms River Police in 2016.
A 95-year-old woman died at the hospital after she was involved in a two-car collision on Newman Springs Road last week:
A 38-year-old man who violently stabbed a female relative multiple times in their Middletown home in July admitted to the crime: