Thursday, January 19, 2012
Donald Graham received a special presentation from Mayor Kelaher for saving the life of a United Water employee last March.
He was there to remove two cars from a flooding roadway. Instead, Donald Graham dove into a flooding hole in the ground and saved a man from drowning in ice-cold water. It was 2 a.m. March 17. Graham was called by Toms River Police to help assist at a water main break, where his towing company was needed to remove cars from the flooding roadway. The water main broke on Brokaw Boulevard, causing an eight-foot deep hole, filled with water, in the roadway, Graham said. “It looked like a river was coming out of the ground,” Graham said of the scene that night. He was working with Accurate Towing, and his job was to tow two vehicles out of the way of the water in the road. A United Water employee, named Brian, was working on the water main, …
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Victim's mother - 'He lied.' Judge compares incident to Chappaquiddick
In the end, the only person who knows what happened during that fatal canoe ride in the darkness of Barnegat Bay last June 10 is Trevor Murphy. "The only facts we have from the incident come from the defendant," Municipal Court Judge John J. Sheehy said before he sentenced the 18-year-old Bayville man this morning. "I wonder how much of the information is really 100 percent accurate." Murphy received a $500 fine and $30 in court costs for leaving the scene of a fatal boating accident that led to the death of Ryan Worrall, his friend of ten years. A second charge - reckless operation of a boating vessel - was dropped. The two took a canoe out into Barnegat Bay at 3 a.m. on June 10, after a post-graduation party, said New Jersey State …
Friday, July 1, 2011
Boater found man floating face down near personal watercraft.
The body of a man has been recovered from Barnegat Bay near Ship Bottom, New Jersey State Police said this evening. At approximately 8:20 p.m., a passing boater discovered the man floating upside down near an unoccupied personal water craft in a channel running parallel to the shoreline near the Route 72 causeway, said Sgt. Julian Castellanos of the State Police. Authorities were at the Ship Bottom municipal boat ramp Friday night after reportedly recovering the body. An officer at the scene confirmed an incident, but did not elaborate. Ship Bottom police blocked off the entrance to the boat ramp area, which is located just south of the eastbound lanes of Route 72. A New Jersey State Police boat moved slowly toward the dock around 8:45 p.m…
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Ryan J. Worrall died nearly two weeks ago
Two weeks have passed since 18-year-old Ryan Worrall headed off to a party to celebrate his recent graduation from Central Regional High School. And just what happened in the darkness on Barnegat Bay during the early morning hours of June 10 is still unclear. "Nothing today," State Police Sgt. Stephen Jones said. "No developments this week." Ryan Worrall's body was found in the water off Amherst Beach late in the afternoon on June 17 by an off-duty State Police officer on a Wave Runner. An autopsy the following day determined the young man who grew up on the tidal marshes in Bayville died of accidental drowning. Worrall and another friend - identified by sources as Trevor Murphy, 18, - had attended a post-graduation party on the evening …
Sue Bucino
10:51 pm on Friday, January 20, 2012
You and Don raised a special person!!! Congrats. more ›