Gov. Phil Murphy is expressing concern about the wild pop-up party that drew thousands and spiraled out of control in Long Branch over the weekend -- but he stopped short of offering any sort of solution.
A Jersey Shore lawmaker is calling on the Murphy administration and NJ Transit to take action in the wake of a viral pop-up party that resulted in arrests and a curfew in this oceanfront city on Saturday.
In a troubling repeat of what happened in June of last year, a pop-up party overwhelmed this Monmouth County beachfront community on Saturday, resulting in a massive presence of police in tactical gear and an emergency curfew.
An investigation revealed that an adult male wounded in a Dec. 29 shooting had been threatened by one of the accused at gunpoint the day before and was also targeted in the first of two alleged encounters on Jan. 1.
A homicide investigation turned deadly this weekend when police went to an apartment with a warrant and encountered a man who began shooting at them, striking an officer, prosecutors said.
A Long Branch woman who previously admitted to sexually assaulting a toddler will head to prison for 35 years for planning and carrying out the attack along with an accomplice in 2017.
WPG Chief Meteorologist Dan Zarrow pins blame on Tropical Storm Peter, which is about 1,700 miles southeast of New Jersey, and Tropical Storm Rose about 3,000 miles away.
Jennifer Sweeney had been accused of arranging to have Tyrita Julius shot, then when Julius survived, strangling her to death and burying her body in the backyard of the shooter.