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A Little Silver man faces a host of weapon- and motor vehicle-related charges after his arrest early Sunday in connection with two crashes involving parked vehicles. According to a press release issued today by Red Bank Police Department, an off-duty...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 4pm
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A Monmouth County jury earlier this week ordered an obstetrician to pay $23 million to a Freehold boy who was severely disabled at his birth at Riverview Medical Center, according to today's Asbury Park Press. The hospital is not identified...
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March 19th, 2008 @ 6am
Red Bank police subdued a belligerent man on Spring Street this morning after a bizarre spree in which he confronted a passing motorist, stole her car, and crashed it head-on into another moving vehicle, they say. Joseph Henninger, 26, of...
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March 14th, 2008 @ 5pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that four people were sent to Riverview Medical Center after a motor vehicle accident on West Bergen Avenue. From the Press: Four people suffered injuries this morning when a car and a pick-up truck...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 8am
An aerial view of Harding Road and Prospect Avenue, marked up with possible changes and a data box describing current conditions. Engineers recommended a less extensive fix than the one shown. Click to enlarge. The troubled intersection of Prospect Avenue...
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March 11th, 2008 @ 6am
Middletown resident Kevin Freibott, a former township police officer, was sentenced to 11 years in state prison yesterday for a car crash that killed a two-year-old boy and left his mother comatose and severely brain-injured, today's Star-Ledger reports. The accident...
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February 29th, 2008 @ 7am
Let it go, people. Your cellphone that is, while driving. Until now, the state of New Jersey's law against holding your cellphone to your ear while operating a motor vehicle has been easy to flout. Police, if they were to...
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February 26th, 2008 @ 6am
A string of fatal car crashes involving teens on provisional licenses has given rise to a test program: requiring those drivers to display a golden decal on the rear windows or bumpers of their cars. Students wishing to park their...
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February 15th, 2008 @ 7am
The upper portion of a utility pole, with streetlight attached, hangs suspended above Leroy Place after a tree fell on power and phone lines late this afternoon. A wind-toppled tree that fell on utility lines knocked out power to homes...
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February 10th, 2008 @ 5pm
The Asbury Park Press is reporting that a Spring Street man is hospitalized in serious condition after a fight with his brother at a Super Bowl party in Middletown on Sunday. From the article: James J. Gibbons, 44, of DeForrest...
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February 7th, 2008 @ 1pm
Municipal Court Judge William Himelman delivered a swift verdict in the long-delayed DWI case of Red Bank Red Hot publisher Claudia Ansorge this afternoon: guilty of driving while intoxicated. It wasn't the blood sample analysis, which had experts and lawyers...
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January 30th, 2008 @ 3pm
The DWI trial of publisher Claudia Ansorge got underway in Red Bank municipal court this morning with testimony from a police officer who gave her a series of sobriety tests after an April, 2006 fatal accident involving a pedestrian. Lt....
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January 30th, 2008 @ 1pm
Red Bank Municipal Judge William Himelman has set a special court date to try the driving-while-intoxicated charge against local publisher and advertising agency owner Claudia Ansorge. The case will be tried beginning at 8:30a on Wednesday, Jan. 30. Municipal court...
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January 16th, 2008 @ 10am
A pump-out hose clears water from a hole where a hydrant stood on Monmouth Street. Water service was shut off and Monmouth Street was closed to vehicle traffic this afternoon after a water line burst during the replacement of a...
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January 10th, 2008 @ 5pm
Red Bank Police Chief Mark Fitzgerald confirmed yesterday that a stabbing occurred on New Year's Eve on or near Dr. Parkers Boulevard. Details of the incident will be released today, he told redbankgreen. Also over the holiday, a 20-year-old Middletown...
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January 2nd, 2008 @ 6am
Today's Star-Ledger takes a look at the "dismal" year that Red Bank-based Hovnanian Enterprises has had. And the coming year doesn't look at lot brighter. But to make that point, the page-one story kicks off with an an anecdote that...
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December 26th, 2007 @ 8am
Re Bank Municipal Court Judge William Himelman expressed frustration this morning over delays concerning evidence in the DWI case of local publisher Claudia Ansorge. "It's now too long" since a Monmouth County Grand Jury decided not to indict Ansorge last...
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December 20th, 2007 @ 12pm
A former Middletown cop with a long rap sheet involving booze and driving faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to DWI charges in connection with a 2-year-old boy's death in Hudson County earlier this year,...
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December 13th, 2007 @ 6am
Revelers beware: Red Bank Police are stepping up their enforcement of drinking-and-driving laws this month. It starts tonight, with a DWI checkpoint on Newman Springs Road. Cops will be out there from 11p to 3a. There will also be more...
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December 8th, 2007 @ 12pm
A trial in the DWI fatality case against Red Bank Red Hot publisher Claudia Ansorge may be scheduled for January or February, her attorney said this morning, following a procedural hearing in Red Bank Municipal Court. Attorney Peter O'Mara of...
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November 29th, 2007 @ 10am
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CARS, BARS AND VANS
Middletown resident Rob King was cruising through the Red Bank municipal parking lot behind the Dublin House Saturday night in his 1969 Plym ...
TWO SHORTS IN FILMONEFEST
Leonardo Morales Pitalua, a 20-year-old animator who lived in Red Bank until February, will have two short films shown at FilmOneFest in Hig ...
LONG DOGGONE WAIT
Partyline photo: The driver of an e-bike and his human passenger wait at the Monmouth Street train crossing while a northbound NJ Transit tr ...
WE’RE LICHEN THIS FUNGHI!
A mushroom sprouts from the mouth-like hole in this lichen-covered tree on the grounds of Red Bank Primary School Tuesday morning.
HELL STRIP FIREWORKS
Revelers launched fireworks from the hell strip in front of a home on Drs. James Parker Boulevard on July 4, one of many impromptu and quest ...
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SWIMMING, ER, SCULLING RIVER?
Partyline photo captures a single rower working their way up the Swimming River.
SUMMER SUNRISE
A stunning Sunrise on the Navesink River in Red Bank Tuesday June 30.
BRAZEN LAWLESSNESS?
Who does this? One of those famously (and, yes apocryphally) illegal-to-remove mattress tags lies on the plaza outside the Count Basie Cente ...
SUNNY SKIES, JAZZY VIBES AT RED BANK ARTS FEST
A jazz combo comprised of current and former students of the Red Bank-based Jazz Arts Project performed at the first Red Bank Arts Festival ...
COOL JUNE BRIDE RIDE
It’s a wedding thing. (Photo and text by Rosann Dal Pra)  
RED BANK CLASSIC 5k
Runners at the starting line of the Red Bank Classic 5k Saturday morning.
WORLD CUP WATCH PARTY AT COUNT BASIE FIELD
Solid turnout, festive vibes and a huge Mexico win: Count Basie Park World Cup Watch Party photos. (Click to read)
DOUBLE RAINBOW OVER RED BANK
Partyline contributor captures stunning double rainbow over Red Bank.
RED BANK: SINKHOLE ON SHREWSBURY AVE
Emergency sinkhole repairs closed Shrewsbury Avenue northbound traffic for most of the day Wednesday.
NAVESINK SUNRISE
Partyliner captures stunning sunrise over the Navesink River in Red Bank.
DRONES SCRUB BANK BUILDING
Partyline photo: A power washing drone was used to clean the exterior of the Ocean First Bank Building at 110 West Front Street recently.
MESSAGE TO READERS
Please stand by: A quick message to readers about a pause in news coverage.
IN THE DISTANCE, NEW STATUE UNVEILED
A new monument commemorating the 250th anniversary of US Independence is unveiled in a park that only has a Red Bank mailing address.
CARPY DIEM
From the redbankgreen Partyline: A pair of large carp cruise the shallows under Hubbard's Bridge (Senator Kyrillos Bridge) on Front Street T ...
BIBS ON FOR OPENING DAY
Partyline: Two longtime neighbors re-unite for lobsters on the Boondocks Fishery opening day.