Stafford Township

Charges are accusations. Defendants are presumed innocent unless, and until, found guilty in a court of law. A Manahawkin 75-year-old awaits court action for allegedly uttering sexually-provocative comments to a 15-year-old girl and exposing himself to her in the Stafford Preserve Complex.

We instill in our students the importance of helping those in need, and we are honored to be able to practice what we teach ~ Colleena Lieter from the Learning Experience   This is a great "feel good" story! Kids helping ...

Once again this Memorial Day Weekend my Alma Mater "Southern Regional" will be paying tribute to our fallen heroes with their "Field of Flags" ..... This week members of the Southern Regional Air Force ROTC have been planting the flags (12x18 inch) at the school located along Route 9 in Manahawkin. One ...

Superstorm Sandy's impact has had a lingering effect in which many shore towns are still recovering from, especially in protecting the oceanfront from future storms. Stafford Mayor John Spodofora may have the solution in the works to help.

Ocean County's program allowing drug abusers to avoid prosecution by turning in their supplies and entering treatment gets a new identity, and expands into a third community.

Crystal meth, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin, molly, marijuana and brass knuckles, all within 1,000 feet of a school, land a Manahawkin drug suspect in the Ocean County Jail.

Two motorcyclists are hospitalized after crashing into a pickup truck in Stafford Township, and investigators seek witnesses who can add details to their probe.

Whatever it is that gives people the impression that Target stores are easy marks for shoplifting, police in Ocean and Monmouth Counties intend to dispel the notion. And that goes for other big shopping-center anchor stores as well.

The Stafford man who was arrested with his mom on heroin charges May 3 in the township is also one of three defendants suspected of a rash of car burglaries in the Ocean Acres section of Manahawkin.

A mom and son face heroin charges and a shoplifting suspect is identified in Stafford Township, bullets fly on a quiet street in Jackson, and two minors are among three arrestees in a stolen-car case in Monmouth's Ocean Township.