Kathleen Hopkins

2 weeks ago | app.com | Kathleen Hopkins

Six-minute readA Monmouth County judge ruled against moving Paul Caneiro's murder trial, stating pretrial publicity hasn't tainted the jury pool. The judge acknowledged extensive news coverage but deemed it factual and not inflammatory, with most occurring in 2018 and 2019. While concerned about negative social media comments, the judge found them unreliable and not reflective of the entire county's sentiment.

3 weeks ago | app.com | Kathleen Hopkins

TOMS RIVER - When Naomi Elkins killed her two toddlers last year, she believed their deaths would eradicate all evil in the world and bring about the coming of the Messiah, a psychologist testified Tuesday. On the morning of June 25, Elkins, 27, of Lakewood, was making food, in preparation for the Messiah's coming, the psychologist, Gianni Pirelli, testified.

3 weeks ago | mycentraljersey.com | Kathleen Hopkins

BERKELEY - After she and her husband were shot by a neighbor who proceeded to take his own life, a township woman who is a South River native called 911, frantically pleading for help, telling police dispatchers she was bleeding to death and that her husband was dead or dying, according to the 911 call. "Please get the cops here. I'm bleeding to death,'' Jill Kwatkoski pleaded with the dispatchers on March 10. "I can't leave my kids,'' she said.

4 weeks ago | app.com | Kathleen Hopkins

TOMS RIVER - An Ocean County jury Wednesday rejected a door-to-door salesman's claim of self-defense and found him guilty of aggravated manslaughter in the death of a Jackson man during a street altercation after a sales call at the victim's home in 2022. The panel of seven men and five women deliberated a little more than four hours over two days before finding Michael Tsamas, 35, of Laurence Harbor, guilty in the stabbing death of 44-year-old Joseph Delgardio.

1 month ago | app.com | Kathleen Hopkins

FREEHOLD - The battle over who can serve Italian food at a Middletown strip mall came to a head in court Monday, with a judge reaching a split decision in a case pitting Luigi's Famous Pizza against Tatum's Table. Superior Court Judge Mara Zazzali-Hogan ruled that the landlord of Lincroft Plaza must enforce a provision in its lease with Luigi's giving the pizza restaurant exclusive rights in the strip mall to serve certain specified Italian dishes.