Tom Mongelli

Health and safety standards are fairly straightforward at home, school, or work. But when you've got wheels under you, there's more left to chance. Even if you're conscientious, you can't be sure of everyone around you. National Public Safety Week today emphasizes protection on the move.

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Three feral animals infected with rabies in Lacey Township raise seasonal red flags for home and pet owners, parents and children in Ocean County.

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Perhaps nowhere does this year's theme of National Public Health Week - "Return On Investment" - resonate more clearly than in the workplace. It's the focus of health officials nationwide during day three of the week-long initiative. So how is the space where you earn your living?

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Keeping children healthy at home is enough of a task for parents and guardians. Once good health habits take root, how can they be maintained for all the hours the kids are in school?

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Two teenagers from Jackson died instantly in a Sunday evening collision in Manchester between their car and a pickup truck on a county highway just outside an entrance to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst.

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A Toms River man is dead and three other people are seriously injured in a midday three-car chain crash on Route 37 in the township.

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The defendant from Asbury Park who admitted sending images of child sex abuse through his Blackberry smartphone is given 41 months in prison.

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National Public Health Week 2013 has your pocketbook as well as your vital signs in mind.

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If the water flowing from your tap in Toms River, South Toms River, or the Holiday City and Silver Ridge Park enclaves in Berkeley Township slows to a dribble at times - or if the color's off - that's United Water at work for the next nine weeks.

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The battering of an eight-pound dog in Marlboro Tuesday might land a Long Island 27-year-old in jail for up to six months.

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