News Briefs

The 2019 general elections are done and we now know who has won and will be representing your town, county and community in the state of New Jersey.

Today counts, your time counts and your vote counts and matters perhaps more than you may think it does.

There are many spooktacular things about Halloween but here are eight things you may not have known about the holiday we celebrate every October 31.

Social media platforms are a resource for information, a way to communicate digitally with family and friends and a place to share with others what's going on in your life. It becomes a place of annoyance or fear when people misuse it to harm others.

Toms River Police Chief Mitch Little will be in our studios taking your questions LIVE Friday on the first episode of WOBM News' 'Ask The Chief' on the 92.7-WOBM Facebook page.

A horrifying discovery by a good samaritan led to a recovery and treatment at an animal shelter of a severely abused cat in Lakewood.

On the same afternoon that New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal ordered the Monmouth and Cape May County Sheriff's to discard their 287(g) agreements with ICE, Sheriff Shaun Golden has issued a statement of his own.

As multiple agencies continue to investigate the vaping epidemic that's caused hundreds of illnesses across the country, Ocean County Health Officials are urging everyone to stay away from e-cigarette products.

The principal of Hebrew studies at Toras Zev in Lakewood has been named in a lawsuit alleging child sexual abuse on a 13-year old boy.

There's nothing better than a story about the gift of life coming into the world.