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NJ Ranks Among Top States For Hospital Safety In Fall 2024, Leapfrog Report Finds
New Jersey hospitals are among the safest in the nation, according to the fall 2024 Hospital Safety Grade report from The Leapfrog Group.
The Garden State ranks in the top 10 states for the highest percentage of "A" hospitals, joining states like Utah, Virginia, and Connecticut. The grades, which are updated twice a year, assess nearly 3,000 hospitals across the country on their effectiveness at preventing medical errors, accidents, and infections.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade uses up to 30 performance measures to assign grades ranging from "A" to "F," offering patients and fami…
Jersey Shore Plumber Admits To Taking Upskirt Videos Of 27 Girls, Women: Prosecutors
A Red Bank man admitted to recording upskirt videos of more than two dozen women and girls, including some in their homes, authorities said.
Christopher Cox, 35, pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 4 to second-degree eluding police, two counts of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, and three counts of third-degree invasion of privacy. Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago announced the guilty plea in a news release on Tuesday, Oct. 8.
Investigators said Cox entered the ShopRite supermarket in Shrewsbury just before 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, and began follow…
8K+ Without Power Amid Another Round Of Storms In New Jersey
More than 8,000 New Jersey residents were without power amid another round of storms on Sunday, June 22.
PSE&G's outage map shows 5,341 were in the dark in Burlington County and more than 3,000 in Camden. The majority of the outages were in Maple Shade, Moorestown, Haddon and Pennsauken.
In Union County, nearly 1,000 had lost power in Westfield.
Smaller but more widespread outages were reported on the Jersey Shore, according to JCP&L, specifically in Long Branch, Red Bank, Asbury Park, Hazlet, Middletown, Keansburg, and Matawan.
The National Weather Service had warned residen…
Ex-Jersey Shore Man Gets 20 Years, No Parole For Serial Threats Against Police, Judges, Others
A former New Jersey resident with a cockamamie political history must spend the next 20 years in federal prison for threatening to kill police officers, lawyers and judges, among others, in and around Monmouth County.
Eric G. Hafner, 32, formerly of Fair Haven, also made calls and sent messages to state officials while phoning in bogus bomb threats to local and state government offices, a police department, two law firms and the Monmouth Park Racetrack during a two-year terror campaign, federal authorities in Trenton said.
Hafner told newspaper reporters in 2018 that he was on the lam for d…
Husband-Wife Duo With Fashion Background Bring Indian Royalty, Intimate Dining To Jersey Shore
They come from the fashion industry and always loved entertaining friends at home.
So Amrita Jogi and her husband, Manish Kumar, opened a small intimate Indian restaurant in Milwaukee, WI, last year with extended family.
Saffron's Manish Kumar, Executive Chef Abhishek Patil and Amrita Jogi
Courtesy of Alexandra Ventura
But they live near the Jersey Shore in Millstone and wanted to bring the ambiance and vibe of New York City —where Manish still works in fashion — to Monmouth County, Jogi told Daily Voice.
Their new, second restaurant, also called Saffron, will open on Friday,…
Mega Millions Lottery Players Take Home $10K
There were two third-tier prizewinning tickets sold that matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn winning the $10,000 prize on Friday, Oct. 27.
Those Mega Millions tickets were purchased at the following locations:
Monmouth County: 7-Eleven #23887, 7 Maple Ave., Red Bank; and,
Ocean County: The River Rock Sports Bar & Grille, 1600 Route 70, Brick.
The winning numbers for the Friday, Oct. 27, Mega Millions drawing were: 11, 32, 43, 57, and 70. The Gold Mega Ball was 06, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 04.
'Chasing Chasing Amy': Famous NJ Movie's Legacy Explored In New Doc
Though "Chasing Amy" is a 90s Garden State classic, a new documentary is exploring its somewhat problematic legacy.
"Chasing Chasing Amy" is premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, spotlighting "Chasing Amy", Kevin Smith's film about a man who falls in love with a lesbian and develops a relationship with her. Smith, a proud New Jersey native, filmed the movie throughout his home state, including in Brick, Asbury Park, Keansburg, Leonardo, Middletown, Red Bank and Rumson.
In the documentary, director Sav Rodgers explores how the film changed his life. Rodgers was 12-years old …