The Monmouth County Genealogy Society will host its traditional meeting and "Show and Tell" 1:30 p.m. July 19 at Eatontown Community/Senior Center, 72 Broad St. The public is welcome to attend the free meeting, and bring a document or record that has something to set it apart from the routine. More...

A preteen girl feels like her friends do not want her around anymore When a teenager discovers that her friend is being abused by her mother, she wants to know how she can help. Suicidal thoughts lead one caller to stand across the street from a hospital emergency room, without the courage to go inside. More...

This Fourth of July was certainly a bittersweet holiday in our home. Those who know me know that our son Coleman, an Army sergeant who served two tours in Iraq, took his own life last September. More...

Flappers, diving horses and, yes, ladies and gentlemen, even Al Capone can be found in the 100-plus-page coffee-table book spanning the Roaring '20s as chronicled by local author and historian Karen L. Schnitzspahn. "The Roaring '20s at the Jersey Shore," published by Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, Pa. More...

Mr. Finnegan, 81, of the Belford section of Middletown, died June 30, 2009, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He was a land surveyor and planner with his father, J. Craig Finnegan, until his father's death in 1960, and owned his surveying business, Thomas A. Finnegan Land Surveyor and Planner, the next 45 years. He was predeceased by a son, David L. Finnegan, in 2006. More...

ERIC SUCAR staff Luciano De Oliveira of Long Branch crosses the finish line as the winner of the four-mile Woodbridge Run for Pizza held through downtown Woodbridge on July 1. More...