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Hey there, New Jersey! The heat wave is here, and it's not just stopping by our area; it's going on a cross-country tour, making people everywhere sweat like never before! Arizona and Texas are sizzling at a whopping 105 to 115 degrees, and now it's our turn to feel the heat at nearly 100 degrees, and that's not even counting the heat index, making it feel even toastier...

Ralph's Italian Ices, which has locations in Toms River and Lanoka Harbor, are open and ready to serve.

We're in the midst of yet another heatwave in New Jersey, but it's also the dog days of summer so more of these hot and humid days are on the horizon. We have some tips on how to keep cool.

What are some other ways we can cool down like (and with) our kids? Water Balloons? Super Soakers? What else?

A Brick Township man is facing animal cruelty charges for allegedly leaving his dog out on the second floor fire escape of a Northrup Drive residence for several hours on Sunday when highs reached 99-degrees in parts of Ocean County. The dog later died.

It's one of those things that we're so used to seeing flying over the beaches in the summer that most of us don't even think about them - the ubiquitous yellow airplanes towing banners of all kinds.

At this early point in the retail availability of 4K resolution TVs and monitors, most of us don't have them yet. But, that being said, I highly recommend that you find the biggest monitor that you can find, if you have a smart TV with YouTube, even better, and watch this video full screen at the best resolution that you can manage. 4K or not, it's still totally mind blowing and totally cool. Watc

Last week we talked about how drones have become inexpensive enough and easy enough to use that it's allowed regular people to get stunning video that wouldn't have been possible only a few years ago. Well another hobby that has popped up has been people customizing their drones. And this has to be the coolest one I've seen yet.

Remember the old dot matrix printers? When you were printing out pages at a time, the sound was almost hypnotic. Well, someone revived an old dot matrix printer to bring Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" to life in a way that we've never seen before. Take a look:

Ok, this is cool! Let's continue today's theme of unusual ways to get through the snow. First, we had the cat who claws his way through a 4 foot high blockade, and now we have this - a Canadian train that couldn't care less about snow that's built up on the tracks. The locomotive literally plows through the snow, blasting a massive cloud of frozen precipitation in its path. It's a pretty amazing s