Superstorm Sandy

A 56-year-old Pennsylvania woman has been charged with stealing $29,000 in insurance money from a New Jersey widow who hired her to repair damage to her home caused by Superstorm Sandy, the attorney general said Thursday.

A Pennsylvania home improvement specialist originally accused of failing to finish Superstorm Sandy repairs on two Monmouth homes took his chances at trial on another charge, and lost.

This week's federal findings of insuffcient management of the National Flood Insurance Write Your Own program by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) prompts shore Congressman Tom MacArthur (R-3) to renew his call for FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate's resignation.

Charges against five new individuals accused of filing for federal Superstorm relief under false pretenses brings the total in the New Jersey Attorney General's office to a half-hundred in the nearly two years since the first allegations were lodged.

Starting May 1, Sandy-surviving homeowners looking for help in New Jersey's Housing Recovery Centers (HRC) will have two fullly operating options, Freehold and Newark. Satellite offices will continue in Toms River and Atlantic City.

We've covered Brick. We've tackled Howell. Now it's time to take a look at our very own County Seat - Toms River. Here are the top 10 things that a true Toms River native will understand:

Newly-released federal dollars head to the Leonardo State Marina, aimed at repairing Superstorm Sandy damage and improving response and recovery for future storms.

In the first two months since the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) reopened offices in Sandy-damaged counties with fresh funding for low-interest Superstorm disaster loans, the agency has received in excess of 500 applications, and approved 139, for about $5,600,000.

First ravaged by Sandy, now blitzed by a blizzard, residents of Ortley Beach and neighboring North Beach in Toms River get word that they're targeted for $4,900,000 in federal Superstorm recovery aid.

New Jersey renters, homeowners and business owners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy damage are being encouraged to apply for disaster assistance loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).