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Hold on to your hats for a couple of more hours. A severe thunderstorm watch continues unitl 9 PM for all 21 New Jersey counties. A flash flood watch runs until 12 Midnight along the coast from Monmouth through Cape May Counties, and inland to Burlington County. Additionally, a small craft warning is in effect until midnight from Little Egg to Manasquan Inlets, with wind gusts to 25 knots and seas three to five feet. It's all gone by mid-Saturday, and the rest of the weekend promjses to be sunny, with temperatures in the mid-80s.

Marital discord led to the bludgeoning of Kimberly Dunphey, 48, and her son Owen Scott, 7, in Lacey Township this past Wednesday, say Ocean County investigators who labeled their deaths homicides by blunt force trauma. The husband, father, and presumed attacker, Gregg Scott, died in hospitalization of wounds that detectives suggest were self-inflicted.

Police in Spain report that much bigger attacks were planned for Barcelona and Cambrils, but ISIS-inspired militants lost much of their explosives supplies in a blast south of Barcelona earlier this week. A hunt is on for the suspected organizer, Moussa Oukabir, believed to be age 17. Thirteen people died, about 80 were injured as a van wove through a crowded sidewalk.

Drive Sober Or Get Pulled Over runs from now through Labor Day in New Jersey, with more than 400 police departments on the lookout for impaired drivers. Additionally, this weekend's DWI checkpoint on Route 35 in Brick Township targets DWI violators, speeders, and driver who ignore pedestrians and bicyclists.

Planning to be in the car when Monday's solar eclipse unfolds? Don't watch it while you're driving, warns Tracy Noble of AAA Mid-Atlantic. It's a blatant episode of inattentive driving, and life-threatening at that. When skies darken, flip on the head lamps and pull down the visors.

Beginning Monday, and continuing through August 31, drivers on northbound Route 166 in Toms River can expect longer lines of cars than usual on the approach to Route 37. The center of the road in each direction will be blocked while underground pipe work is conducted, prior to activation of a new traffic signal at Gateway Drive. The signal is expected to bring order to the usual Whack-a-Mole situation for drivers trying to access Route 166 from Highland Parkway.

An Atlantic City firefighter and two South Jersey drug salesman risk up to 10 years in prison each, for a multi-milion-dollar scheme that allegedly cost the state health benefit system $50,000,000. The three admitted inducing public and private-sector workers to accept medications they didn't need from an out-of-state compounding pharmacy for more than a year, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for themselves.

After cruising through the Mid-Atlantic Regionals with hardly a hitch, Jackson's Holbrook Little Leaguers have their backs to the wall tomorrow in World Series play in Williamsport. They meet the Great Lakes squad tomorrow, in a must-win game to stay in tournament play.

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