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A major airship disaster will be remembered today in Manchester. And it's not the one you're probably thinking of. Newsreel footage and radio announcer Herbert Morrison's cry, "Oh, the humanity!" made the 1937 explosion of the Hindenburg at Lakehurst Naval Air Station probably the best-known crash of an airship. But just four years earlier, the USS Akron went down in a violent storm off … [Read more...]
A mother and her daughter were found dead inside their Middletown home overnight, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced. Diane Young, 54, and her daughter Jacqueline Young, 27, died in a fire inside the home they shared at 30 Ideal Ave. in the North Middletown neighborhood of the township. Middletown Police received a 911 call from a neighbor at 10:47 p.m. … [Read more...]
A Toms River township building inspector was charged with theft of copper from an Ortley Beach home after a witness told police that a man took the wire and drove away in a township vehicle, according to authorities David Gregitis, 50, of Toms River was released on a summons after a witness reported at about 12:30 p.m. Saturday that he saw a man take copper wire from the house at 106 3rd Ave., … [Read more...]
Despite the devastation that Superstorm Sandy brought to the shore, not everyone wants the government to build sand dunes to protect their homes. Coastal towns can't move forward with beach replenishment and dune projects until all the oceanfront property owners sign easements, giving government the right to access their land to perform the protective work. Gov. Christie wants … [Read more...]
