Lacey

An Ocean County high school teacher and assistant football coach has filed a lawsuit against police officers who he says looked up his license plate without probable cause.

A 33-year-old man will have to pay back Lanoka Harbor EMS and resign from his Lacey Police dispatcher job, prosecutors said.

An Ocean County woman won't be spending any time behind bars after pleading guilty in a case of animal cruelty from 2019.

A Lacey man who allegedly took advantage of his sick girlfriend by stealing money from her bank account and sharing it with his friend is being charged with theft among other offenses.

Two peacocks were killed in front of the Popcorn Park Zoo Tuesday morning when they were struck by a car, according to Executive Director John Bergman.

The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant, which is undergoing decommissioning, was cited by federal regulators for a low-level safety violation, the Asbury Park Press reported Wednesday.

A Lacey man has turned himself into police after being charged with Strict Liability Induced Death for mixing heroin with fentanyl then selling it to a woman who later overdosed in Toms River.

A Whiting man has plead guilty to vehicular homicide and DUI in a car crash that later killed a Florida woman on Lacey Road in September of 2018.

The incident took place during "Bike Night" at the Lakeside Diner on Wednesday.

A head-on crash between a dump truck and a car on Route 539 in Ocean County killed a woman on Friday morning, according to police.