92.7 WOBM News – Flash Briefing June 5

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Tomorrow, Ocean County Decides...its choices for the finalists in November's elections, and will see whether its nearly 400,000 registered voters agree with those in the majority of New Jersey's 20 other counties for the combatants for the Governor's office.

Every seat in the state Legislature will be at stake. District 12 is a GOP battleground, as Art Haney challenges Senator Sam Thompson's re-election bid, and Assemblymen Ron Dancer and Rob Clifton face competition from Debbie Walker, Alex Robotin and John Franklin Sheard. Republican Jenny Heinz is challenging Ocean County Freeholder Director Joe Vicari.

Investigators in Orlando, FL, dismiss any terrorism influence in this morning's deadly shooting in an industrial park. The gunman, John Robert Neumann, Jr., 45, is described as an Army veteran formerly employed at the awning company where he shot five people to death, then turned the gun on himself. The incident occurred nearly a year after the deadly nightclub shootings in the same city.

The man suspected of firing the bullet that hit a 15-year-old girl in Asbury Park late last week faces a first-degree attempted murder charge. Josiphiah Fowlkes, 22, was arrested during the weekend. The teen was briefly hospitalized.

Shore Congressman Tom MacArthur chooses President Trump's golf club in Bedminster for the site of his June 11th campaign fundraiser - and brings in the owner as special guest. MacArthur is setting the foundation now for next year's campaign, and expects to raise millions from guests hoping to rub elbows with the President.

The attack credited with turning the tide of World War II took place 73 years ago tomorrow. D-Day, when Allied forces stormed the French beaches at Normandy, has a special Ocean County connection in the late Bud Lomell of Toms River, whose exploits in taking out an enemy bunker are recounted in Tom Brokaw's tome, The Greatest Generation.