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Over 2,290 votes were cast in Star News Group's first Spooktacular Halloween Photo Contest, and the winners were clear.

Less-than-hospitable weather did little to deter the large crowd of walkers who gathered on the beachfront in Avon-by-the-Sea for the Kaleidoscope of Hope Foundation Walkathon last Saturday.

For months doctors told Valerie O'Rourke Foley they couldn't find anything wrong with her, but she knew something was amiss.

Watch the mellow autumn sun melt into the horizon, and fill your belly while you're at it.

Cindy Zipf, Executive Director, Clean Ocean Action leads a press conference to condemn offshore oil and gas drilling held at the Avon Pavilion, Avon-by-the-Sea, 9/17-08 Avon photo by Shawn Huber/Asbury Park ...

The Kaleidoscope of Hope Foundation will hold three fundraising walkathons this month to raise funds for ovarian cancer research.

At about 12:40 p.m. today, a tractor trailer took down transformer pole in Avon-by-the-Sea, resulting in power outages in the borough.

Nine New Jersey firms that rent personal watercraft are facing fines as part of a State Police crackdown.

The biggest thing I have ever seen in my life. I asked the owner how he stayed in business putting so much meat on every single sandwich.

GEORGE PATRICK CUMMINGS SR., of AVON, son of Irish immigrants, grandson of a civil war veteran, loving husband, brother, father and grandfather passed away Wednesday, May 21, after a long illness.

Belmar remained at the eye of the storm, amidst the center of a growing controversy over printed statements attributed to Mayor Kenneth Pringle.

Our friend Laura will soon be off to California in her efforts to help others as a nurse.

Chris Reilly has lived in Avon has entire life. He grew up with his parents on Woodland Avenue and now lives in an apartment by himself.

These enterprising youngsters were a few of the many who surely took advantage of this weekend's incredible weather to make a buck off the throngs of visitors.

Authorities believe they have identified the small plane that crashed near coastal Monmouth County Saturday night.

A fire broke out in a Belmar apartment complex Saturday night, and at least two people were reportedly injured.

A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Manasquan Inlet, N.J., searches for survivors from a plane crash in Indian River, N.J., Saturday, July 5, 2008.

AVON BY THE SEA - Marianne K. Burke, age 38, daughter of the late William Burke, died Thursday at home.

Alfonso J. Suarez Jr., 87, of Colts Neck passed away Saturday, June 21, 2008, at Jersey Shore Medical Center, Neptune.

The Coast Star has been serving the southern Monmouth County, NJ area since 1877, and is published each Thursday to the communities of Avon-by-the-Sea, Bradley Beach, Brielle, Belmar, Lake Como, Manasquan, ...