The trail of charges rung up on a credit card, stolen in the Howell Home Depot last May, brings investigators to a suspect in Jackson, with help from web-surfing tipsters.
A woman who allegedly harangued an Orthodox Jewish boy outside the Howell Township Walmart faces a bias incident charge, if police track her down. They're now seeking her identity, and they're asking if you can help.
A Howell Township house that once sheltered the commanding officers of Naval Weapons Station Earle became a marijuana farm and a stash house for a grenade launcher, shotguns, rifles and hand guns, according to police who completed two arrests.
A Lakewood man described by Howell Township police as a known drug dealer faces possession and distribution counts after being stopped for a broken brake light in a Route 9 shopping center.
Water mains in Howell Township are starting to show their age, says New Jersey American Water - so, out they go, in a replacement project scheduled to run through the end of September.
An armed, and apparently suicidal, man, engages Howell Township police in two hours of tense negotiations before relenting, and submitting to hospital observation.
Only a few years from now, a generation coming of age in Ocean County will have little or no recollection of Lakewood's Tent City. It doesn't mean that such encampments no longer exist.