The COVID-19 pandemic is preventing ParkFest from happening again exactly as it did in 2019, but the 2020 version is still going to be held; it's simply moving online.
The Long Branch man convicted last year of locking an 8-month-old pit bull puppy in a small wire cage and leaving that cage in the rising tide of the Sandy Hook Bay in the Highlands was sentenced to a year in prison.
NBC4 was on the boardwalk in Long Branch on Wednesday to get footage of the rough surf from the storm churning in the Atlantic. What they caught was far less gloomy.
A heads up for Monmouth County drivers, the NJ DOT will be starting pavement work along stretches of Route 36 which will occasionally close lanes and overnight ramp detours between now and the end of the year.
The Long Branch man wanted for allegedly abdanoning the dog now affectionally renamed "River" has turned himself into police, in an announcement on Facebook from the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office.
After a night adrift between Sandy Hook and Highlands, a 19-year-old jet skier is recovering following his rescue early this morning by the U.S. Coast Guard.