Kathleen Hopkins

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kathleen Hopkins

TOMS RIVER - Despite a door-to-door salesman's continued claims he was defending himself during an altercation with a Jackson homeowner in 2022, a judge sentenced him May 29 to 20 years in prison for plunging an unlawful, double-sided dagger with serrated blades through the victim's carotid artery, killing him. In imposing the prison term on Michael Tsamas for the aggravated manslaughter of Joseph Delgardio, Superior Court Judge Guy P.

1 month ago | app.com | Kathleen Hopkins

LAKEWOOD - An out-of-state bus driver transporting 47 children to a local school was charged with dozens of counts of child endangerment after police said he drove at high speeds, used his cell phone on the road and even stepped away from the steering wheel as the bus traveled down the Garden State Parkway before running out of gas on a local street.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kathleen Hopkins

TOMS RIVER - A Jackson man charged with stabbing two men, one fatally, during a fight in a Toms River home is claiming self-defense, his attorney argued May 28 at his client's detention hearing. Steven McNeill, 32, was a victim, not the aggressor, during the altercation shortly after 7 a.m. on May 9 at a home on Adams Avenue in Toms River, Francis Hodgson, McNeill's attorney, argued to Superior Court Judge Wendel E. Daniels.

1 month ago | app.com | Kathleen Hopkins

FREEHOLD - An Asbury Park man professed his innocence and argued with a judge May 23 as sheriff's officers led him out of a courtroom to begin serving a 20-year prison term for kidnapping an 11-year-old girl in 2023. "I'm going to face all these years for something I didn't do,'' Raquan Folk, 31, insisted before Superior Court Judge Paul X. Escandon handed down his sentence. "You're not going to convince me of your innocence here,'' Escandon said to him.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kathleen Hopkins

The mad dash home from Memorial Day weekend at the Jersey Shore has begun, with traffic mounting in the northbound lanes of the Garden State Parkway. As of 11:38 a.m. on May 26, there was a 14-mile delay in the parkway's northbound lanes from exit 77 in Berkeley Township to north of exit 90 and Chambers Bridge Road in Brick. All lanes were open. This article originally appeared on Asbury Park Press: Jersey Shore traffic updates for your ride home from Memorial Day