By DAN GOOD and TOM BARLAS, Staff Writers | Posted: Monday, April 26, 2010 | 18 comments

A  standoff in Hammonton involving an armed man ended with a body being removed from a house at Messina and Fairview avenues just after 9 a.m. Monday.

The standoff began at about......Continue Reading

NBC40 Video 

NBC40 is reporting police standoff ended early Monday morning when witnesses say they saw police fatally shoot a man who was believed to have taken hostages at gunpoint

(The Hammonton Fire and Rescue squad responded for emergency stand by.)

Lighting Strike to a house. Recalled by Hammonton. All Elwood units were clear at 11:02pm.

Full Call Recording

This is a VOX recording. It is condensed and not in real time.

From Press staff reports | Posted: Sunday, April 25, 2010 | 0 comments

An electrical fire forced seven Atlantic City residents out of their home Sunday evening, Fire Chief Dennis Brooks said.

A fuse box ignited about 6 p.m. in a three-story brick house on the unit block of South Mansion Avenue. Electrical service was shut down and firefighters quickly controlled the fire, confining it to a small space.

The residents are temporarily displaced, Brooks said. It was not clear exactly what caused the fire.

From Press staff reports | Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 | 0 comments

Two small fires off of the Atlantic City Expressway in Atlantic City on Saturday afternoon were under control by 6:45 p.m., State Police Sgt. Paul Steiner said.

One was just north of the expressway at mile marker 1.5, by the railroad tracks, and was possibly started by a spark off of a train, Steiner said. Another was a bus that caught fire in Hansen's Bus World, in between the expressway and Route 322, with no immediate cause available.

There were no reported injuries, Steiner said.

Posted in BREAKING on Saturday, April 24, 2010 6:57 pm Updated: 9:09 pm.

Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 | 0 comments

Police are looking for the driver who crossed through a barricade and nearly hit a firefighter early this morning

An Atlantic City firefighter was injured early this morning while jumping....Continue Reading

From Press staff reports | Posted: Thursday, April 22, 2010 | 0 comments

A dog wandering across the Garden State Parkway caused a collision Thursday evening, injuring one person and seriously damaging a car, State Police said.

Jessika Bock, 21, of the Bayville section of Berkeley Township, Ocean County, was driving south on the parkway at milepost 51.5 in Bass River Township at 5:02 p.m. when she slowed down and switched lanes to avoid hitting a dog, according to....Continue Reading