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Schools are at different points in the process of compensating displaced students for the room and board they couldn’t use when coronavirus closed campuses.

Public transportation ridership is down dramatically as the COVID-19 public health emergency has forced many to work from home.

Lakewood Township has 272 of the 680 cases in Ocean County. Toms River has the second most with 91, Brick has 72 cases.

The Ocean County Sheriff’s Office along with the Ocean County Police Chiefs Association has established a decontamination site in Berkeley Township off of the Garden State Parkway for emergency response vehicles.

Catholic churches across the Diocese of Trenton including here in Monmouth and Ocean Counties are offering a livestream mass this weekend and moving forward during pandemic.

Two New Jersey student athletes have launched online petitions asking the NJSIAA to consider extending the spring sports season into summer.

The order was issued in an effort to keep contact between people to a minimum so COVID-19 does not quickly spread and overwhelm the state's healthcare system.

“All of our appointments for Monday are booked and we are taking appointments for Tuesday through Friday at this time," Ocean County Public Health Coordinator Dan Regenye said.

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.

Lakewood Township has 236 of the 557 cases in Ocean County. Toms River has the second most with 69, Jackson has 57 cases.

A warm front will dominate New Jersey's weather forecast through the weekend.