Tom Mongelli

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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The bloody stabbing death of 24-year-old Kevin Copes in Toms River last June leads to a first-degree murder indictment against a Lakewood 21-year-old who was arrested in Florida only days afterward. Four more defendants face trial for hindering the investigation.

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He's a superstorm refugee forced from his Manahawkin home to Mays Landing in Atlantic County's Hamilton Township. But Ocean County investigators believe that Enzo Pena also leads a dangerous drug ring that preys on kids.

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The rustic calm of Englishtown is upended as a warrant search of a borough apartment yields a massive stash of mind-bending drugs and cash, say Monmouth County authorities.

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