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A dead whale found on the bow of a ship at the Gloucester Marine Terminal in South Jersey has prompted a federal investigation into the circumstances of the animal’s death.
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A dead whale found on the bow of a ship at the Gloucester Marine Terminal in South Jersey has prompted a federal investigation into the circumstances of the animal’s death.
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Police shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect outside a home in Piscataway, where three people were later found dead, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.
The incident occurred near the intersection of Mitchell Avenue and River Road. Police responded to the scene after receiving a 911 call from a man reporting that someone was inside the home with a knife. Upon arrival, officers saw the suspect on the porch holding a knife.
The man, whose identity has not been released, fled from the porch, leading to a foot chase that ended when the suspect charged at the officers, according to law enforcement sources. Police attempted to subdue the suspect with Tasers, but they were ineffective, sources told News 4.
After the suspect continued to advance toward the police, the responding officers fatally shot him in the street.
“They told him to stop several times; they gave him commands to stop,” said Jessica Conroy, a resident of the area.
Following the shooting, officers discovered three other deceased individuals inside the home. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating their deaths.
“This is a really nice neighborhood,” Conroy told NBC New York. “I never saw anything bad at the other house.”
The identities of the civilians and officers involved have not yet been released.
The police investigation is ongoing.
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DEPTFORD, New Jersey (WPVI) — Jeffrey Norcross has been collecting and curating a museum of American history for more than 30 years.
And each year, he rolls out antique toy trains from his childhood for all to see.
This year marks the 23rd Annual Antique Toy Train Show at The Museum of American History at Deptford, NJ.
At present, Norcross is displaying three of his timeless trains from the mid-20th century, which still impressively roar across the tracks all these years later.
The train show is a gateway to the rest of the two-story museum, which features agricultural artifacts, fossil specimens, glasses and bottles, pieces of Pine Barrens history, and more.
Norcross, an archaeologist, proudly excavated many of the items himself at 161 sites in 16 states.
This year’s train show will run through February 1, 2026. Then, an art show will launch at the museum from March 8th through the 22nd.
To learn more, visit their website at www.southjerseymuseum.org.
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A Jeep that matches the description of the vehicle that belongs to a missing man in South Jersey was found on Wednesday afternoon.
SkyForce10 was over the scene around 4 p.m. on Dec. 31 as a black Jeep Wrangler with the license plate “RUNT 61” was being towed on a flat bed tow truck followed by at least one police car.
Authorities reported that they are searching for Stephen Iannotti who was reported missing by his family after they hadn’t heard from him since Christmas Day.
While searching through Ring cameras in Iannotti’s neighborhood, police saw his Jeep with the license plate “RUNT 61” leave his driveway at 12:45 a.m. on Dec. 26, officials said.
Iannotti is known to frequent the areas of the Mount Royal section of East Greenwich and the Borough of Pitman.
If you see Iannotti, please call 911 right away or the Logan Township Police Department at 856-589-0911.
NBC10 Philadelphia has reached out to the Logan Township Police Department for more information on their search for Iannotti.
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A second helicopter pilot critically injured in a midair collision in South Jersey has died from his injuries, police said Monday. The other pilot involved in the crash died at the scene.
Hammonton Police identified the pilots as 65-year-old Kenneth L. Kirsch, of Carney’s Point, New Jersey, and 71-year-old Michael Greenberg of Sewell, New Jersey. Police said Kirsch was piloting an Enstrom model F-28A helicopter, and was flown to a hospital in critical condition after the crash.
According to police, Kirsch died from his injuries at the hospital.
Greenberg, who was piloting an Enstrom model 280C, was pronounced dead at the crash site near Basin Road and White Horse Pike in Atlantic County. The pilots were the only people on board both choppers, the Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday.
Both helicopters had taken off from Hammonton Municipal Airport shortly before the collision at 11:25 a.m. One of the choppers was completely engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
The National Transportation Safety Board and FAA are investigating the crash.
Investigators were back at the crash site early on Monday. A preliminary report from the NTSB could come as early as Monday. The agency said its investigation will focus on the “the pilot, the aircraft and the operating environment.”
Following the crash, CBS News Philadelphia spoke with Caitlyn Collins, who said one of the helicopters landed in her backyard. Collins said she ran toward the wreckage and stayed with Kirsch, who later succumbed to his injuries, as first responders raced to the scene.
“I just held his hand, I just told him everything was going to be OK and everything was fine, and I told him — you know, you could hear the sirens — I said, they’re coming for you,” Collins said.
Other neighbors in the area helped direct emergency crews as they arrived at the crash site.
In a social media post, New Jersey Governor-elect Mikie Sherrill said, “My heart is broken for the family of the pilot killed in yesterday’s fatal helicopter crash in Hammonton. I am praying for the full and fast recovery of the other pilot injured and am grateful for the emergency responders on the ground.”
Sherrill is a former Navy helicopter pilot.
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One pilot is dead and another has life-threatening injuries after the helicopters they were operating collided in mid-air above New Jersey, about 35 miles southeast of Philadelphia. CBS Philadelphia’s Ray Strickland has more.
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Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a midair collision between an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and Enstrom 280C helicopter over Hammonton Municipal Airport. Only the pilots were on board each aircraft. One was killed, and the other was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.Sal Silipino, owner of a cafe near the crash site, said the pilots were regulars at the restaurant and would often have breakfast together. He said he and other customers watched the helicopters take off before one began spiraling downward, followed by the other.“It was shocking,” he said. “I’m still shaking after that happened.”Hammonton is a town of about 15,000 people located in Atlantic County in the southern part of New Jersey, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia. The town has a history of agriculture and is located near the Pine Barrens, a forested wilderness area that covers more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares).The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, Friel said.Investigators will likely first look to review any communications between the two pilots and whether they were able to see each other, said Alan Diehl, a former crash investigator for the FAA and NTSB.“Virtually all midair collisions are a failure to what they call ‘see and avoid,’” Diehl said. “Clearly they’ll be looking at the out-of-cockpit views of the two aircraft and seeing if one pilot was approaching from the blind side.”Although it was mostly cloudy at the time of the crash, winds were light and visibility was good, according to the weather forecasting company AccuWeather.
Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.
Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.
The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a midair collision between an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and Enstrom 280C helicopter over Hammonton Municipal Airport. Only the pilots were on board each aircraft. One was killed, and the other was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Sal Silipino, owner of a cafe near the crash site, said the pilots were regulars at the restaurant and would often have breakfast together. He said he and other customers watched the helicopters take off before one began spiraling downward, followed by the other.
“It was shocking,” he said. “I’m still shaking after that happened.”
Hammonton is a town of about 15,000 people located in Atlantic County in the southern part of New Jersey, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Philadelphia. The town has a history of agriculture and is located near the Pine Barrens, a forested wilderness area that covers more than 1 million acres (405,000 hectares).
The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, Friel said.
Investigators will likely first look to review any communications between the two pilots and whether they were able to see each other, said Alan Diehl, a former crash investigator for the FAA and NTSB.
“Virtually all midair collisions are a failure to what they call ‘see and avoid,’” Diehl said. “Clearly they’ll be looking at the out-of-cockpit views of the two aircraft and seeing if one pilot was approaching from the blind side.”
Although it was mostly cloudy at the time of the crash, winds were light and visibility was good, according to the weather forecasting company AccuWeather.
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One person has died and another person is in critical condition after two helicopters collided and crashed in Hammonton, New Jersey Sunday.
Just before 11:30 a.m., the Hammonton Police Department said two helicopters crash-landed near Basin Road and White Horse Pike in Atlantic County.
In a statement, the Federal Aviation Administration said an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and an Enstrom 280C helicopter were involved in the deadly collision near Hammonton Municipal Airport. The helicopters collided mid-air and only the pilots were on board each aircraft, according to the FAA.
One of the helicopters was “engulfed in flames,” according to a statement from Hammonton Police.
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Multiple agencies responded to the incident, including the Hammonton Fire Department and the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.
The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash. A preliminary incident report will be posted within the next business day by the FAA.
In a statement the NTSB said the agency is looking into the “inflight collision.” Once the wreckage from the scene is documented, the aircrafts “will be moved to a secure facility for further evaluation.”
The agency’s investigation will focus on three areas including “the pilot, the aircraft and the operating environment.” A preliminary report by the NTSB is expected within 30 days of the incident.
First responders are asking the public to avoid the area as emergency crews continue to respond to the scene.
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One person was killed and another person critically injured after two helicopters collided and crashed in Hammonton in Atlantic County, New Jersey, on Sunday.
The collision, which occurred at around 11:25 a.m., caused both helicopters to crash at around the 100 block of Basin Road.
Hammonton resident Dan Dameshek shared video with NBC10 that showed one of the helicopters fall from the sky, causing smoke to billow above the town.
Dameshek said that he was coming back from the gym when he heard a loud snap and then looked up to see the two helicopters spinning out of control.
“Immediately, the first helicopter went from right side up to upside down and started rapidly spinning, falling out of the air,” Dameshek said. “And then it looked like the second helicopter was okay for a second, and then it sounded like another snap or something… and then that helicopter started rapidly spinning out of the air.”
SkyForce10 was also over the scene to find both helicopters crashed in a field.
Firefighters have since been able to put out the flames, officials said.
The FAA said in a statement that each helicopter involved only had pilots on board and that they would assist an investigation into the collision that will be led by the NTSB.
The identities of those involved have not yet been released.
NBC10 is headed to the scene and is working to learn more about what happened.
This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.
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Police are searching for a suspect who they say entered a home, stole car keys and then stole a vehicle in Haddonfield, New Jersey.
The incident occurred early Friday evening on West High End Avenue. Police said the suspect first entered an unlocked vehicle and either pressed the garage door opener or entered through an open garage door. The suspect then entered the home and stole car keys from inside the kitchen, according to investigators.
The suspect then drove off with the vehicle.
Police said the residents were inside the home at the time of the theft but didn’t interact with the suspect and weren’t aware that their vehicle had been stolen.
If you have any information on the incident, call Haddonfield Police at 856-429-3000 or email detectives@haddonfield-nj.gov.
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A Broadway actress who played the role of Young Nala in “The Lion King” a decade ago has been murdered, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Imani Smith, 26, was discovered with multiple stab wounds inside her Edison, New Jersey home on Dec. 21.
She was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Smith was one of two actresses playing the role of Young Nala on Broadway between 2011 and 2012. Those who worked with her said she had a great voice and brought tremendous energy to the character.
Online tributes to Smith have been appearing, including one on Playbill.com.
Jordan Jackson-Small, 35, of Edison, is facing several charges, including first degree murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. Edison Police said the two knew each other and “it was not a random act of violence.” His initial court appearance was postponed, Smith’s family members said.
Smith’s parents tell CBS News New York Jackson-Small is the father of their daughter’s 3-year-old child.
“Nobody deserves to lose their life in that way, no matter who you are. Especially someone who is so young, has so much promise and has a beautiful little boy. She called, she calls him ‘Bub.’ Amazing parents. And she is unfortunately the second Young Nala we’ve lost, both under very different circumstances,” Jessica Arnold, a child guardian at “The Lion King,” said.
Smith’s mother also worked on “The Lion King” in the hair and wig department, as well as on other Broadway and television shows.
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A family on Long Island, New York, is crediting their 12-year-old with saving the day.They say he did all the right things when someone broke into their house. 12-year-old Tristen Taylor of Medford was home alone in his bedroom midday Tuesday when he heard the kitchen window break and footsteps inside the house.A stranger was walking from room to room.”I said, I have to get out the house,” Tristen said. It may sound like the Christmas classic “Home Alone,” but unlike the holiday movie, there were no traps or pranks — just quick thinking, a fast police response and a child who did all the right things.After getting away through a ground-floor window, he called 911. As the man rummaged through the house, Tristen hid behind the garage.”I was on the phone with them, waiting for them to get here,” he said.Suffolk County police arrived in less than three minutes, catching the thief red-handed.”He is our little hero,” said Timothea Taylor, Tristen’s grandmother.”We were very proud that he was able to keep his composure and call the police as quickly as he did. Basically, without even thinking about it, he automatically called 911.”Tristen’s family credits movies he’s seen, plus his good instincts.To his neighbors, he’s also a hero for stopping a brazen burglar.Mike Campanella, a neighbor, said, “I would hope my son would have done the same thing, when someone is breaking into the house — caution is to get out and then call the police.””You just have to be brave and call them,” Tristen said. The suspect now faces burglary charges.He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Wednesday.
A family on Long Island, New York, is crediting their 12-year-old with saving the day.
They say he did all the right things when someone broke into their house.
12-year-old Tristen Taylor of Medford was home alone in his bedroom midday Tuesday when he heard the kitchen window break and footsteps inside the house.
A stranger was walking from room to room.
“I said, I have to get out the house,” Tristen said.
It may sound like the Christmas classic “Home Alone,” but unlike the holiday movie, there were no traps or pranks — just quick thinking, a fast police response and a child who did all the right things.
After getting away through a ground-floor window, he called 911. As the man rummaged through the house, Tristen hid behind the garage.
“I was on the phone with them, waiting for them to get here,” he said.
Suffolk County police arrived in less than three minutes, catching the thief red-handed.
“He is our little hero,” said Timothea Taylor, Tristen’s grandmother.
“We were very proud that he was able to keep his composure and call the police as quickly as he did. Basically, without even thinking about it, he automatically called 911.”
Tristen’s family credits movies he’s seen, plus his good instincts.
To his neighbors, he’s also a hero for stopping a brazen burglar.
Mike Campanella, a neighbor, said, “I would hope my son would have done the same thing, when someone is breaking into the house — caution is to get out and then call the police.”
“You just have to be brave and call them,” Tristen said.
The suspect now faces burglary charges.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Wednesday.
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A family on Long Island, New York, is crediting their 12-year-old with saving the day.They say he did all the right things when someone broke into their house. 12-year-old Tristen Taylor of Medford was home alone in his bedroom midday Tuesday when he heard the kitchen window break and footsteps inside the house.A stranger was walking from room to room.”I said, I have to get out the house,” Tristen said. It may sound like the Christmas classic “Home Alone,” but unlike the holiday movie, there were no traps or pranks — just quick thinking, a fast police response and a child who did all the right things.After getting away through a ground-floor window, he called 911. As the man rummaged through the house, Tristen hid behind the garage.”I was on the phone with them, waiting for them to get here,” he said.Suffolk County police arrived in less than three minutes, catching the thief red-handed.”He is our little hero,” said Timothea Taylor, Tristen’s grandmother.”We were very proud that he was able to keep his composure and call the police as quickly as he did. Basically, without even thinking about it, he automatically called 911.”Tristen’s family credits movies he’s seen, plus his good instincts.To his neighbors, he’s also a hero for stopping a brazen burglar.Mike Campanella, a neighbor, said, “I would hope my son would have done the same thing, when someone is breaking into the house — caution is to get out and then call the police.””You just have to be brave and call them,” Tristen said. The suspect now faces burglary charges.He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Wednesday.
A family on Long Island, New York, is crediting their 12-year-old with saving the day.
They say he did all the right things when someone broke into their house.
12-year-old Tristen Taylor of Medford was home alone in his bedroom midday Tuesday when he heard the kitchen window break and footsteps inside the house.
A stranger was walking from room to room.
“I said, I have to get out the house,” Tristen said.
It may sound like the Christmas classic “Home Alone,” but unlike the holiday movie, there were no traps or pranks — just quick thinking, a fast police response and a child who did all the right things.
After getting away through a ground-floor window, he called 911. As the man rummaged through the house, Tristen hid behind the garage.
“I was on the phone with them, waiting for them to get here,” he said.
Suffolk County police arrived in less than three minutes, catching the thief red-handed.
“He is our little hero,” said Timothea Taylor, Tristen’s grandmother.
“We were very proud that he was able to keep his composure and call the police as quickly as he did. Basically, without even thinking about it, he automatically called 911.”
Tristen’s family credits movies he’s seen, plus his good instincts.
To his neighbors, he’s also a hero for stopping a brazen burglar.
Mike Campanella, a neighbor, said, “I would hope my son would have done the same thing, when someone is breaking into the house — caution is to get out and then call the police.”
“You just have to be brave and call them,” Tristen said.
The suspect now faces burglary charges.
He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Wednesday.
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A woman who once starred in Broadway’s “The Lion King” as a child was killed in a stabbing over the weekend, New Jersey officials said.
Edison police officers were called to a home on Sunday morning over reports of a stabbing where they discovered 26-year-old Imani Dia Smith, the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on Tuesday. Smith was taken to a hospital to treat her stab wounds, where officials said she was pronounced dead.
A GoFundMe started to raise funds for Smith’s family by Smith’s aunt said that she was “killed by her boyfriend.” She is survived by her 3-year-old son, according to the page.
“Imani had her whole life ahead of her,” her aunt wrote. “She was a vivacious, loving and fiercely talented person.”
Smith starred as young Nala in “The Lion King” on Broadway for a year between 2011 and 2012, according to Playbill. Her mother is a hair stylist who has worked in theater, broadway and television productions including “The Lion King” show and the film adaption of “In the Heights,” the publication said.
An investigation into the stabbing led to the arrest of Jordan D. Jackson-Small, 35. Officials said that he knew Smith but did not provide details on the nature of their relationship.
He’s been charged with first-degree murder, second-degree endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Jackson-Small is currently being held at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center as he awaits a court hearing, according to inmate records. Court records did not list an attorney for Jackson-Small as of Thursday.
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who championed the fight against the US federal government for states to possess the right to legalize sports betting, has a new target in sports prediction markets.

Christie, a two-term Republican governor in the blue Garden State, helped lead New Jersey’s legal challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). The federal law had restricted single-game sports gambling to Nevada.
After years in court, the US Supreme Court in May 2018 ultimately sided with New Jersey in that PASPA violated anti-commandeering interpretations of the Tenth Amendment. The landmark ruling led to 40 states and Washington, DC, passing sports betting laws.
Now, Christie is joining the American Gaming Association (AGA), a trade group representing the interests of the commercial and tribal gaming industries, to campaign against the continued rise of sports prediction markets.
CNBC’s Contessa Brewer, who covers gaming matters for the business news outlet, broke the Christie news last Friday.
Prediction markets licensed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) claim to facilitate the buying and selling of binary markets and yes/no contracts. Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket initially focused on the outcome of real-world happenings and events, from the weather to politics, but more recently ventured into sports.
State attorneys general, gaming regulators, and certain state lawmakers have said the sports prediction markets are nothing more than sports gambling, but Kalshi and the like do not hold sports betting licenses in states where they operate. They’re even operating in states like California and Texas, where sports betting is illegal.
Several traditional sportsbook giants, including DraftKings, FanDuel, and Fanatics, recently withdrew their AGA memberships to pursue their own prediction markets. DraftKings Predictions and FanDuel Predicts launched over the past week.
The AGA is betting on Christie being able to change the narrative.
They are clearly illegal in the sports gaming space,” Christie told Brewer. “The Supreme Court turned this [sports betting] over to the states. Regulation is very important,” Christie said. “This is not compliant with the law.”
The CFTC, which administers the Commodity Exchange Act, has allowed its Designated Contract Market (DCM) licensees to offer contracts on sporting outcomes. The CFTC, under the Trump administration, seems unlikely to force prediction markets to cease trading sports contracts. Even the president’s family is prepping a prediction market entry through its media group, and Donald Trump Jr. is a special advisor to Polymarket and Kalshi.
The Commodity Exchange Act prohibits CFTC licensees from trading contracts involving “gaming” and events “contrary to the public interest” like war, terrorism, and assassination.
“Just because people brazenly break the law doesn’t mean they should be permitted to do so,” Christie said.
Christie says, unlike legal, regulated sportsbooks, which report suspicious betting activity to state gaming regulators and sports leagues when wagering patterns suggest a game or player could be compromised, predictive markets are like the wild west, where no such monitoring is occurring.
The things that have happened in the NBA and MLB were discovered because the licensed sportsbooks are partnered with state regulators to look for irregularities. No one is looking for irregularities in sports prediction markets,” Christie said.
“The CFTC has made it clear they aren’t regulating it with any rigor,” Christie continued. “The CFTC is not doing the job regarding sports, nor do they claim to be doing the job.”
Christie will try and help the AGA stress to the CFTC that prediction markets should not be allowed to offer sports contracts. It could be a tall task, as Christie’s relationship with Trump has soured greatly since his 2016 endorsement of the billionaire, something he’s called the “biggest mistake I’ve made in my political career.”
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The roof at a South Jersey gas station collapsed on Friday evening.
NBC10 crews arrived to the Sunoco located on the 2000 block of Grand Central Avenue in Lavallette in Ocean County around 6 p.m. on Dec. 19 to see extensive damage at the gas pumps.
First responders were on scene as it appeared as though the entire roof above the pumps fell straight down.
No word yet on if anyone was hurt or what caused the collapse to happen.
This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.
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Primo Hoagies said it will cover the adoption fees for any large dogs that are taken home from Homeward Bound Pet Adoption Center in Blackwood, New Jersey, from now through Sunday.
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A 1963 tram car from the Wildwood Sightseer tram is being restored to its original condition with plans to display it at the George F. Boyer Historical Museum. The Wildwood Historical Society, which saved the rusted vehicle, is raising money to pay for the project.
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