92.7 WOBM News Flash Briefing: April 25 5AM

https://jerseyshorepodcasts.townsquaredigital.com/WOBMNEWS04-25-195AM.mp3

A Brick man has been charged with neglect for allegedly choking his 9-year-old daughter outside a restaurant in the Florida Keys on Tuesday night.

The Neptune Township man who shot a Neptune City man in the parking lot of a VFW in 2016 has plead guilty to aggravated manslaughter.

Here's an unbelievable statistic. Already in 2019, the NJ Forest Fire Service has responded to 331 fires. Crews have kept most of them so small, though, that only a handful of blazes were actually worth mentioning. There are plenty of eyes in the sky this month and next, the busiest time of year for wildfires in New Jersey.

The decision by the Yankees and Flyers to stop using Kate Smith's recording of "God Bless America" during their games because of racist lyrics in songs she performed in the 1930's has not been met with universal support.