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Local news from Ocean and Monmouth counties

From administrators to students, program attempts to foster a sense of community at school through literature Full story »

MILLSTONE -- A Superior Court judge in Monmouth County declared a mistrial today after jurors said they were deadlocked in the case of a former Millstone Township man accused of trying to kill his divorce lawyer after losing custody of his children. An hour into deliberations today in the trial of Nicholas Lucarella, the jury of seven men and five... Full story »

HOWELL — A New Jersey veterinarian has pleaded guilty to failing to properly care for a parrot that was kept as an office pet and died when temperatures fell. Mahmoud Hussein admitted in Municipal Court on Wednesday that he failed to provide adequate food and shelter to Tickles. The Conure parrot was kept in an unheated entryway of his veterinary... Full story »

MANASQUAN — Boaters said some of the sand lost in last week's nor'easter has piled up in Manasquan Inlet. Commercial fishermen have reported striking the bottom of the inlet, which they said is suddenly much shallower than usual. James Lovgren of Point Pleasant Beach said his boat scraped bottom at less than 10 feet. The inlet is usually 20 to... Full story »

Thanksgiving weekend isn't just a time for families to get together. It's also prime season for high school reunions. Graduates from high schools or other institutions around the Garden State will have an opportunity to reconnect with former friends and classmates. Among the upcoming reunions are these: Arthur L. Johnson Regional High School of Clark Class of 1989, 20-year... Full story »

A New Jersey man who's been battling in Brazilian courts to get custody of his son is scheduled to testify next month before a congressional human rights panel in Washington. David Goldman of Tinton Falls has been trying to get his son back since his wife took the boy, now 9, to her native Brazil more than five years... Full story »

SAYREVILLE -- A woman who died five days after she was struck by a car while crossing Route 35 was identified today as a 23-year-old Dover resident. Lorena Di Bello died Nov. 13 in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was taken by helicopter following the Nov. 8 accident, police said. Di Bello was walking across... Full story »

As the founding drummer for the rock band Kiss, Peter Criss has been a role model for aspiring rock musicians for more than three decades. Now, Criss hopes to be a role model in another sense — to help raise the public’s consciousness of the little-known fact that men can get breast cancer. "I never saw a commercial with a... Full story »

RUMSON -- The Dad Vail Regatta decided to move the 2010 race to Rumson because the town could guarantee $250,000 in donations and lower operating costs, a report on Philly.com said. America's largest intercollegiate rowing competition, the Dad Vail Regatta, has been held in Philadelphia since 1953, according to the report. The regatta draws about 3,000 collegiate rowers and has... Full story »

Officials say recent string of deaths does not mean H1N1 is more deadly Full story »

TRENTON -- A financial adviser from Monmouth County admitted today he financed a lavish lifestyle with money from investors he duped in a $10.3 million Ponzi scheme. Maxwell Smith, 69, of Fair Haven, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Morristown to one count of first-degree money-laundering. Under the plea agreement with the state Attorney General’s Office, Smith is likely to... Full story »

MONMOUTH COUNTY -- Monmouth County authorities said today they disrupted a major drug distribution operation responsible for dumping large quantities of heroin in the county’s Bayshore area. In a two-day raid conducted in eight communities, police rounded up 20 suspected heroin dealers and their alleged supplier who authorities said sold $25,000 worth of heroin weekly. Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis Valentin... Full story »

The arrest of 20 people following a year-long drug investigation will be announced today by The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. Monmouth County Prosecutor Luis A. Valentin said a afternoon news conference is planned to detail "Operation Low Down, " which was was conducted by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, with help from Keansburg, Union Beach, Atlantic Highlands, Highlands, Hazlet, Matawan,... Full story »

OCEAN CITY — Emergency management officials fanned out along the southern New Jersey coast today, cataloguing damage to dunes, beaches and property from last week's nor'easter — even as local towns tallied tens of millions of dollars of their own damage claims. The teams, which included representatives from local, county, state and federal agencies, are documenting damages and coming up... Full story »

Nicholas Lucarella was so angry over losing custody of his three sons that he hired two men from Passaic County to kill his former Red Bank divorce lawyer in 2002, a prosecutor told jurors in Monmouth County today. As closing arguments began in Lucarella’s trial, jurors must decide whether the accountant formerly from Millstone was the mastermind behind the plot... Full story »