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Thomas McFarland, a 59-year-old dentist from Pennsylvania, has been charged with dumping the needles and other medical-type waste that washed up on the beach in Avalon, NJ during the last week of August.

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Here's an idea: Increase the fines. That's a proposed response to the plague of syringes and other medical wastes that have recently been fouling New Jersey beaches.

Pennsylvania authorities have searched the home of a dentist who they say may have been responsible for medical waste that recently washed ashore on several New Jersey beaches.

The Avalon Beach Patrol announced on Sept. 4 that it will continue to have guarded beaches through Sept.

Sep 4, 2008 12:33 pm US/Eastern AVALON, N.J. Sources tell CBS 3 police have zeroed in a suspect in the alleged dumping of waste off the coast in Avalon, New Jersey.

Officials in Brigantine have closed the town's beaches after a syringe and other medical waste was found near the shoreline.

" - " The Avalon Police Department arrested a 29-year-old man from South Africa on various drug charges, early on Aug 30.

Beach patrols throughout the county reported no cases of medical debris on Labor Day.

Medical debris continued to pose problems for the start of Labor Day weekend along some Cape May County, N.J., beaches .

Beaches in Avalon, N.J. , are closed again Friday morning as inspectors comb the entire beachfront after more medical waste washed ashore overnight.

The state Attorney General's Office is offering a $10,000 reward for information regarding the medical waste that has closed Avalon beaches three times since it was first discovered Saturday.

Avalon Mayor Martin Pagliughi will hold a press conference to discuss today's closure of the borough's beaches.

With thousands of tourists headed to the Jersey shore for the last weekend of summer, the discovery of medical waste on the beach is not the type of publicity one South Jersey resort town needed.

New Jersey Attorney General's Office offers $10,000 reward for information on those responsible for washup of medical waste in Avalon.

' - ' Officials deemed beaches safe to reopen Aug. 27 but continue to monitor the north end beaches where medical debris continued to wash ashore over four days.

AVALON: View of the beach near 17th St. in Avalon. On Tuesday, Avalon's Beach Patrol closed a section of the beach from 14th St.

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The borough's northern-end beaches reopened - and stayed open - for a modest crowd Monday, after needles and cotton swabs washed ashore and caused them to be shut down twice.

A one mile stretch of beach in Avalon, New Jersey has reopened for swimming and recreation after cleanup crews on Monday morning made another inspection for medical waste.