A Lakewood man is in critical condition and two others are also hurt after a head-on collision involving a car and a dump truck on Route 9 Wednesday in Howell.
A Lakewood man described by Howell Township police as a known drug dealer faces possession and distribution counts after being stopped for a broken brake light in a Route 9 shopping center.
Water mains in Howell Township are starting to show their age, says New Jersey American Water - so, out they go, in a replacement project scheduled to run through the end of September.
The "extreme hoarding" of 276 dessicated dogs in a deteriorating Howell Township home leads to 552 animal-cruelty charges against the couple who own the dwelling.
An armed, and apparently suicidal, man, engages Howell Township police in two hours of tense negotiations before relenting, and submitting to hospital observation.
A couple of big spenders ran up bills in the Howell Township Target on Route 9, and Brick Township's WalMart on Route 88, with fake credit cards using actual account numbers. Police in Howell hope that surveillance photos will jog someone's memory and lead to their arrests.
Only a few years from now, a generation coming of age in Ocean County will have little or no recollection of Lakewood's Tent City. It doesn't mean that such encampments no longer exist.