Lakewood

The wheels on a Lakewood school bus are evidentially still going round and round as police pulled over a bus on Monday afternoon in the township that is reportedly bringing students back and forth to school.

Police said they made "several attempts" to break up the gathering at a school on Monday morning.

Police have broken up another large gathering of people in Lakewood and in addition to violating Governor Phil Murphy's executive order, two parents are in trouble for endangering their children.

A Howell man's Facebook comments got him arrested on after police said he threatened to harm Jewish residents with a baseball bat.

Lakewood's Jewish community has seen backlash in the novel coronavirus outbreak.

A Lakewood man who coughed on a Liquor Store employee and said he had coronavirus because the clerk wouldn't sell him a pack of cigarettes will appear in court next month after being given a criminal complaint for disorderly conduct.

A day after Gov. Phil Murphy called out certain people in Lakewood for holding two large gatherings that had to be broken up by police, the governor called out hateful comments directed at the township's Orthodox Jewish residents.

Lakewood Township has 198 of the 468 cases in Ocean County. Toms River has the second most with 60, Jackson has 52 cases.

Police issued 17 summons in one week over large gatherings that violated Gov. Phil Murphy's executive order banning gatherings of any kind.

More than a dozen property owners have been ticketed for violating Gov. Phil Murphy's coronavirus executive order prohibiting gatherings of more than 50 people.