
92.7 WOBM News Flash Briefing: October 16
Temperatures take a big dip tonight. Inland lows are expected to sink to about 40, the chilliest it's been since May.
A Monmouth high schooler reportedly took his own life with a firearm Sunday. Information on RedBankGreen.com related that athlete Pierce Jarck of Rumson drew heavy police response beforehand.
Pinelands Regional middle- and high-schoolers are using the Middle School on alternate days while safety inspections continue amid high school renovations. A ceiling screw that fell from its mooring prompted the decision.
A suspected holdup artist from Rahway faces a battery of charges following a Saturday robbery at a Brick Township Exxon station. Police said that a sharp-eyed resident caught Zakry Shrivers jumping into a change of clothes in some nearby woods.
The blaze that destroyed four cars in the Ocean County Northern Recycling complex in Lakewood early Sunday is ruled accidental. Authorities said that a woman nodded off in her car with a lit cigarette in the ashtray. No injuries resulted.