Ever since I was a precocious 5 year old who read the Bergen Record and then published his own neighborhood newspaper I've always had an interest in the news. I learn something new on this job everyday and that's what keeps it interesting. I've been with NJ101.5 for the past 10 years on the digital team writing news and working behind the scenes on a variety of projects.
Dan Alexander
DUI charges for driver in crash with Allentown, NJ students
Two 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old and a 14-year-old were hospitalized by the September crash, according to police.
4th school bus crash in Lakewood, NJ in just over a month
The driver of a school bus carrying several students on Route 9 was hit by a car.
Murphy: NJ voters don’t need masks at schools on Election Day
Colleges, libraries, senior centers, fire stations and recreation centers still might have their own mask requirements in-place, during early voting.
Lakewood, NJ man badly burned in oven flash fire, police say
The Ocean County man was flown via medical helicopter to a burn center in Livingston, according to authorities.
Missing Glen Rock, NJ man’s body found in ocean off LBI
Kiariff Alston was reported missing by his family after he never showed up at his job at the Home Depot in Paterson.
Married couple killed in crash under Parkway in Tinton Falls, NJ
The driver of the pickup truck that went off the Garden State Parkway and onto Asbury Avenue was also named but has not been charged.
SWAT bursts into home, arrests knife-wielding Toms River, NJ standoff suspect
Police got the man's family out of the house and formed a perimeter around the house upon their arrival on Tuesday afternoon.
2 killed in car hit by pickup that drove off Garden State Parkway overpass
A Toms River man driving a pickup northbound on the Garden State Parkway lost control, went down an embankment and struck a car traveling on a road underneath the highway.
NJ man cut daughter from will, then she slaughtered him and his girlfriend, cops say
Sherry Heffernan drove her RV to her father's house on LBI several days before he and his longtime girlfriend were found stabbed to death in the house he was selling.
Yet another school bus crash in Lakewood, NJ — 3rd in a month
It's the third crash in the past week involving a Jay's Bus Service school bus.
Rutgers Athletics spent $12,400 on ‘power nap’ machine
Rutgers put a freeze on discretionary spending related to university operations during the pandemic but spending by the athletic department was up 13%.
Daughter murdered elderly couple inside $2M Surf City, NJ home, cops say
The daughter of the man found dead Sunday in his Long Beach Island was charged with stabbing him and his girlfriend to death.