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Seaside Heights prom rental ban targets the wrong problem

Kimberly Gordon of Lopatcong went missing in Maryland in June after guiding a wide load. Skeletal remains were found a mile from her last known location.

A standoff with police in the parking lot of Walmart in Lumberton began late Monday night and continued all night.

Tuesday is definitely a "weather aware" day as high humidity fuels a gamut of potential severe weather issues, from flooding to wind to hail to even tornadoes.

Some New Jersey homeowners are leaving hundreds — sometimes thousands — of dollars on the table every year simply because they didn't know these programs existed.

An appeals court has ordered further review of a law that bans renting a hotel room to anyone under 21 during prom and graduation season in Seaside Heights, NJ.

A great white shark named Contender is pinging off the East Coast and appears headed toward the Jersey Shore. It's one of the largest sharks ever tagged.

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More than 10,000 layoffs have been announced under Gov. Mike Sherrill. Some of New Jersey's biggest employers cut staff. Heritage companies are leaving.

A half-million-dollar armored SWAT vehicle vanished from a Newark police lot before sunrise — and it was back on the street within two hours, heading toward Jersey City and Irvington.

A traffic stop turned deadly on Route 55 early Mondayt morning and a 5-year-old was left walking alone in the dark.

Lauren Gerhold never made it home for Thanksgiving 2023. This week, a Warren County judge handed down a sentence in the crash that killed her.

Princeton just got a new dessert spot, and it's the kind where you build your own ice cream sandwich from scratch — your cookie, your ice cream, your toppings.

NJ Transit's World Cup performance shattered records, but questions about a possible budget deficit are still being sorted out.

Most New Jersey beaches charge you just to walk on the sand — but a small handful never have. One of those may be about to change in order to recover from beach erosion.

Two major names — Mars Wrigley and Samsung — are packing up their New Jersey headquarters, and the timing couldn't feel more unsettling for the roughly 1,000 workers caught in the middle.

NJ should pause AI data centers before it's too late

A boating crash on Barnegat Bay killed two young children Sunday night after their boat hit a buoy off Berkeley Township.

Many Verizon stores will now be controlled by franchise owners, affecting over 3,000 jobs with recent cuts.

New Jersey keeps losing residents to other states — and yet the population just hit 9.55 million. That contradiction is worth sitting with for a second.

After 86 years in Newark, New Jersey, Mars — the company behind M&Ms, Snickers, and Skittles — is packing up its corporate offices and heading to Chicago.

A 14-week trial, a hitman paid twice, and a 12-year-old girl caught in the crossfire — the story out of Trenton is one that stayed with a lot of people.

Summer hits its midpoint quietly — no big announcement, just suddenly you're past the halfway mark and wondering where July went.

A recent study naming the best places in America to raise a family does not provide a lot of good news for New Jersey.

South Jersey resort where you can swim and watch planes take off and land.

The U.S. FDA has issued an apology to Taylor Farms after a sampling of lettuce, supposedly linked to the parasitic infection making thousands sick, had a false positive.

The ice cream shop that South Jersey keeps coming back to.

Twenty-eight New Jersey companies just made a national best workplaces list — and a few of the names on it might genuinely surprise you.

A Long Branch cop tackled a knife-wielding man to save a woman's life early Saturday. The officer was stabbed in the head during the arrest.

New Jersey will be in a pleasant slice of the atmosphere Monday with sunshine and low humidity, before gusty thunderstorms and heavy rain return.

These are the top news stories on New Jersey 101.5 for Monday, July 20, 2026.

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NJ hosted eight matches throughout the entirety of the tournament.

Each has pros and cons, but which season is the best?

If you think summer ends after the Fourth of July, you're not alone.

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