March is over and with it came some major municipal and crime news for Toms River. Here's a look at last week's top headlines. Sunday the focus turned to Easter as Seaside Heights hosted its annual Easter Egg Hunt, which gave prizes to local children who searched for plastic eggs in the oceanfront sand. In business, Best Buy announced it plans to close 50 stores, but did not say how the two stores in OCean County would be affected. In the race for Ocean County Sheriff, longtime incumbent Bill Polhemus will face Democrat Bob Armstrong. The two men announced their candidacy this week. The …

1. Gov. Chris Christie tossed out a tax credit that would have saved the producers of the MTV show "Jersey Shore" $420,000. The governor vetoed the state Economic Development Authority’s award of film tax credits, citing a difficult fiscal climate and a need to use tax credits to support projects that "benefit the state." Christie has been a long-time credit about the show. 2. After months of protests, contentious meetings and accusations of conflicts of interest, the state Department of Education on Friday rejected charter schools proposed for several successful suburban school districts, …

Heavy rains amid a thunderstorm affected major intersections and shopping plazas after 8 p.m. Friday, resulting in malfunctioning traffic lights and a loss of power elsewhere. Traffic lights at Route 37 and Clifton were among the affected intersections, as police directed vehicles to go east or west to the next functioning traffic light. Route 37 and Vaughn was also affected, as was the Ocean County Mall. A Berkeley Little League official has been suspended from the league and banned from the complex on Moorage Avenue, after police charged him with assaulting a Toms River coach. Reports of …

A recap of the major news from Toms River from March 13 to 20. In what the Toms River police chief called an accidental death, a township public works employee died while unloading a box truck of leaves after 1:30 p.m. Friday. Longtime Department of Public Works Truck Driver Joseph Cisco, 53, of Toms River died from a head injury near the controls for the hydraulic lift of a box truck at the leaf compost facility on Whitesville Road on Friday afternoon. A second tragic death involved pedestrian Jesse Carbonaro, 16, on Monday night. Carbonaro was crossing Route 70 near Whitesville Road on foot…

On Sunday, March 7, tragedy again struck on the Garden State Parkway, when after 3 a.m. a Lacey resident traveling home from work died in a one-car accident near mile 89.2 southbound. Just after midnight on Monday, the vacant storefront and second-floor apartment building behind Dunkin Donuts near Hooper Avenue was destroyed by fire. Firefighters arrived to see the first floor in flames and quickly extinguished it. Traffic was diverted from the surrounding roadways, including the jughandle to Hooper from Route 37 westbound. A project to build 200 townhouses, two 50-unit apartment buildings …

In case you missed it, some stories from the past week: Ongoing matches in the wrestling state championship with many grapplers from the Jersey Shore competiting to be the state's best. Ocean County Courts handed down an indictment against a 24-year-old New Jersey woman for vehicular homicide in a one-car accident that killed a passenger. The incident was May 12 on Route 37 outside the Stop and Shop. Toms River South standout Jay Malone was named Shore 'B' Most Valuable Player in Ice Hockey. A string of 65 car burglaries and credit card fraud from stolen credit cards led police from Toms …