Lakewood

A longtime officer with the Lakewood police is charged with punching an opponent at a men's softball game so hard that the victim required surgery.

A 6-year-old boy was hospitalized in critical condition after he was choked by a piece of playground equipment on Monday evening.

A man from Lakewood is facing a long list of drug and weapon-related charges after being arrested last week in Ocean County.

A man from Toms River, who police say was driving at double the speed limit, has been charged with vehicular homicide in connection to a fatal crash in Lakewood Township earlier this year.

An Egg Harbor Township man has been sentenced to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty to aggravated arson and a weapon charge in connection to two incidents in Ocean County in 2020.

A victim provided the street directions John Bailey sought but refused to give him a lift, shortly after which he allegedly returned to the woman's car, punched in a window, then entered the vehicle and sat on her, beginning to choke her.

A man from Toms River has been sentenced to 17 years in state prison on cocaine and heroin-related drug charges.

Ocean County authorities say the white man accused of murdering 10 Black victims in New York copied much of a lengthy online manifesto, with white supremacist and anti-Semitic views, from other works.

As investigators continue pouring over the manifesto published by the suspect in the Buffalo supermarket massacre, they have uncovered another link to New Jersey.

The manifesto officials said was posted by Payton Gendron called the activities of Hasidic Jews "deplorable" and laments "Hasidic community growth and its impact" in New Jersey.