Officials in Brigantine say a porch pirate, with two warrants, was arrested after allegedly stealing a cell phone that was delivered to a home on Thursday.
Results of a necropsy conducted on the humpback whale that washed up in Brigantine last week indicate that the whale died due to blunt force trauma most likely caused by a vessel strike.
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center has received its first patient of the season - a female harbor seal discovered hurt and stranded on Monmouth Beach on Dec. 28.