On 10/21/2025, at approximately 4:22 a.m. Lily “Zade” Dougherty (10/08/2009) was reported missing. Zade left his residence located in Sicklerville and was last seen entering an Uber at the corner of Bluestone and Mullen Dr in Sicklerville. His clothing description is unknown. Zade is approximately 5’7″ in height and 150 pounds in weight. He has black hair and green eyes. His last known whereabouts were on 10/21/2025, at approximately 3:26 a.m. in Camden City near the Hilton Garden Inn in the area of the waterfront.
If anyone has additional information or knowledge of Zade’s location, please call 9-1-1, the Gloucester Township Police Department at 856-228-4500 or call the GTPD Anonymous Crime Tip Line: 856-842-5560, or send your tips via GTPD Website at https://gtpolice.com/tips
Camden, NJ – Detectives are seeking the public’s assistance in finding the body of a man who was murdered in Camden in June and has yet to be located, announced Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Camden County Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez.
Harold “Hal” Miller Jr., 48, of Deptford was last observed on surveillance video entering a residence on the 2600 block of Baird Boulevard in Camden on the morning of June 12, 2025. Last month, detectives charged 41-year-old Everton Thomas of Camden with Miller’s murder. Additionally, the defendant’s wife, Sherrie Parker, 41, and his son, Deshawn Thomas, 23, were charged for their roles in helping to dispose of the victim’s body.
During the investigation, detectives learned that Sherrie Parker and Deshawn Thomas purchased a chainsaw, containers, trash bags, and other cleaning supplies after Miller was observing entering the residence, but never exiting it. Additionally, surveillance video showed Everton Thomas and Deshawn Thomas making several trips to the Tamarack Apartments dumpsters and loading containers and trash bags into a vehicle before leaving the city.
Everton Thomas is charged with first-degree Murder, second-degree Desecration of Human Remains, and fourth-degree Tampering with Physical Evidence. Sherrie Parker and Deshawn Thomas are both charged with second-degree Desecration of Human Remains and fourth-degree Tampering with Physical Evidence. All three defendants are being held at the Camden County Correctional Facility following detention hearings in Superior Court.
“We’re asking for the public’s help in locating the body of Mr. Miller so we can bring answers to his grieving family,” said Prosecutor MacAulay. “Any information, no matter how small, could be the key to bringing them peace and helping us deliver justice. The family has suffered enough — it’s time to help bring their loved one home.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Jake Siegfried of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit at (856) 225-5086 and Detective Andrew Mogck of the Camden County Police Department at (609) 519-8588 Tips can also be sent to CAMDEN.TIPS.
All individuals charged with crimes are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Today, Senator Andy Kim announced his office will be holding a second resource fair focused on helping residents navigate the government shut down on Friday, October 24th, at Atlantic Cape Community College. This resource fair will be designed to provide resources and information of how residents can navigate the current government shut down. Senator Kim’s first shut down focused resource fair took place earlier this month in Somerset County.
Please see below for details:
WHAT: South Jersey Shut Down Resource Fair hosted by the Office of Senator Andy Kim
WHERE: Atlantic Cape Community College, (5100 Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing, NJ 08330)
WHEN: Friday, October 24th, 2025
TIME: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
New Jersey residents are welcome to attend and speak with organizations that can answer questions and provide assistance to the following:
Traditional investment theory is based on investors acting rationally with regard to advancing their own financial interests, within their limits of risk tolerance. The theory also presumes that in a liquid market items traded are fairly and efficiently valued. In reality, human emotion and bias can influence investment actions and results in irrational ways that can be either positive or negative. The discipline of identifying and gauging behavioral influence on actions and on markets is called “behavioral finance.” The magazine, “Psychology Today,” defines behavioral finance as the ways psychology affects investor behavior and financial markets.
James Graves, Investment Advisor and Principal at Joppa Mill Advisors said, “An important oversight in classic investment theory is ignoring the fact that investors are humans who don’t always act rationally. Assuming only rationality in investing can lead to unexpected and unproductive results.” As an example, Graves points to the recent post-Presidential election period where many were wary of the effects of impending tariffs on the world economy. Graves notes that the feeling of fear and apprehension drove some to liquidate their investment portfolios, even though the rational value of their investments had not materially changed. The result, for those liquidators, was that they missed out on the subsequent upturn in the markets.
Graves believes that to achieve the best long-term investment results, one should be mindful of behavioral financial effects and, in the long-term, work to minimize their influence. For the amateur investor, understanding behavioral influence and detaching rational investment decisions from it’s effects can often be difficult to do. Graves has identified 7 behavioral factors that can be especially significant influencers. They include:
1) Herding
As with our post-Presidential election example above, the non-professional opinions of friends, family and pundits must be weighed against the realities of value. Just because the so-called herd is moving in one direction doesn’t make their action wise.
2) Emotional Bias
There is little room for excessive emotions in financial analysis and planning. Such emotions as fear, anxiety, excitement, exuberance and others can motivate investors to be pushed in the wrong direction even in the face of sound investment analysis.
3) Confirmation Bias
If an investor strongly believes a certain way, they can sometimes undervalue or ignore information and facts that support an opposing viewpoint. One-sidedness can cause investors to maintain a false sense of over-confidence because they are missing seeing the total picture.
4) Recency Bias
When it comes to market movement, amateur investors can put too much stock in prior events or cycles and the degree of influence they may have on the future. Fallacious or exaggerated reactions to past stimuli, cycles or trends can lead to misguided decisions in the future.
5) Risk Avoidance
As damaging as exuberance or over-confidence can be, the opposite, or risk intolerance can also hold investors back from reaping potential gains. Today, risk tolerance can easily be gauged by relatively easy-to-take surveys. By knowing risk level, investors and advisors can assess and recommend the most comfortable investments that maximize results for that level.
6) Endowment Bias
Many amateur investors retain ownership of losing investments for a much longer time period than they should, hoping they will come back in value. The prudent investor should remove the emotional connection to a stock and craft a strategy for adroit liquidation and transfer of the remaining asset’s value into productive investments that most quickly get back on the growth path.
7) FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)
Amateur investors can be motivated by greed into engaging in irrational risk because they believe that “it can’t miss”.
Said Graves, “To achieve the most effective long-term investing results, it’s important to understand basic financial principals and use them to analyze whether you believe a company will be a prudent investment. It will also be important to know what level is the risk tolerance in order to be able to decide whether the investment, under consideration will be in one’s comfort zone. A professional investment advisor, who is trained to filter out emotions in order to keep you on course to achieve long-term goals, can be quite helpful in these situations.”
Chickens have forever had a place in our hearts and on our tables. Why is that? Well … why not?
And so I’d like you to come with me back to the summer of 1970, ‘way up north of Fairbanks, Alaska, to what was once the thriving gold mining village of Chicken, Alaska. I was on my way, hitchhiking with a canoe, to paddle down a stretch of the Yukon River and to see the cabin where Jack London spent the winter once upon a time.
Just as an aside here, hitchhiking with a canoe, or with a sled and 11 dogs, would make a lengthy how-to book all by themselves. It doesn’t sound easy, does it? It isn’t.
So what I would do on these “adventures” of mine, (my boss, Larry Fanning, referred to them as Slim’s tin-cup trips because of all the scrounging I had to do) is go to neat places and interview great people, and write stuff. My column in the Anchorage Daily News was called … brace yourself … “Slim’s Column.”
Truth in advertising.
So I arrived in Chicken, Alaska, only to find I’d nearly doubled the local population. In the far-distant past, Chicken was a ghost town. When the gold gave out, so did Chicken.
So what was left was “the business” consisting of a gas pump, a coffee pot, some postage stamps and a couple of nice folks. But there was something else, too.
There was not only an outhouse there, but it was electrically lighted. So where should I write my column? In an electrically lighted outhouse in Chicken, Alaska.
Naturally.
The raising of poultry this far north is uncommon; too many local varmints, including any resident sled dogs, eat them. So how did this gold camp get its name? Ahh … the very reason for that column typed on the wooden “desk” beneath that 20-watt bulb.
Chicken, Alaska, got its name because none of the miners there knew how to spell ptarmigan.
Beat the holiday rush! “Strange Tales of Alaska” by Slim Randles now available on Amazon.com.
A late-night food run escalated into a stand-your-ground shooting at a McDonald’s when two Florida men caused a “McMess,” according to police.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Juddsaid a McDonald’s got overwhelmed by orders after several events in the area ended early in the morning of Oct. 12.
Yoan Soto — a 21-year-old employee at the McDonald’s in Davenport, the sheriff’s office said — was working an overnight shift.
Two men — 20-year-old Peter Story and 18-year-old Nicholas Jones — pulled into the drive-thru to order food. However, there was reportedly a long wait.
According to Judd, Soto told Jones and Story, “Hey, sorry guys, but we’re way behind … our online orders are overwhelming us.”
However, the two customers allegedly became furious.
Judd said, “They threatened to attack the man who just told them, ‘We’re busy, we can’t take any more orders,’ and he did that because the manager told him to.”
Sheriff Judd said the two customers threatened Soto with violence.
“We’re going to hang out here,” the pair allegedly told Soto, according to Judd. “When you get off, we are going to beat you up.”
Judd added, “What do these goober smoochers do? They park their vehicle, and they come into the restaurant.”
Sheriff Judd said Soto and the two customers began “jawing” and “having a McArgument in the McDonald’s over McHamburgers, or lack of McHamburgers.”
The 22-year-old McDonald’s manager reportedly told Story and Jones to leave because they were trespassing.
Judd said the two customers threatened to commit a “mass shooting” at the McDonald’s, which allegedly had other customers inside the restaurant.
Surveillance video shows Soto walking out of the back of the restaurant with a gun and pointing it at the unruly customers — and Judd backed Soto’s actions as self-defense.
“And [Soto] comes into the lobby to confront these guys who’ve threatened him and threatened the store and threatened to shoot the place up,” Judd said. “And now he’s trying to get them out of the store.”
Jones and Story are seen swinging their hands in an apparent attempt to take Soto’s gun.
Judd noted that “as they try to grab his gun, [Soto] pulls the trigger, and he shoots Peter Story in the neck.”
Jones then drove Story to a local hospital.
“It’s a blessing that it was a very minor wound,” Judd said.
Judd said Soto retrieved the bullet casing and projectile from the floor and fled the McDonald’s.
Authorities allegedly convinced Soto to return to the scene of the crime, and he cooperated with police.
Soto was charged with tampering with evidence, which is a felony.
Story and Jones were charged with trespass after warning and disorderly conduct.
“Listen folks, it’s never OK to threaten a mass shooting,” Judd stressed. “It’s never OK to threaten to beat people up at a business. And it’s never OK to grab your ammunition and your firearm and run after a shooting.”
Judd again backed Soto’s self-defense attempt: “He has a right to stand his ground and protect himself, and these guys are threatening to do violence after they’ve already threatened on the outside of the store and came inside.”
Judd said of the two customers, “They created a well-founded fear in him and the store manager. It was just a McMess, but we’ll sort it out because we are McGood at investigating McCrime.”
On Veterans Day, Casino Café & Grille will offer active-duty and retired military members an array of featured breakfast and lunch dishes, accompanied by choice of tea, coffee or a soft drink, priced at $11.11. Breakfast options will include two eggs prepared any style with protein and fresh-cut home fries; a bacon, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich served with home fries; and cinnamon-battered French toast with pork sausage and maple syrup. For lunch, guests can choose between a crispy BLT served with fries; Buffalo-style chicken wings with fries and blue cheese dressing; or an all-beef Hebrew National hot dog accompanied by sauerkraut and fries.
Bally’s will also offer a 20% hotel discount for November stays, including two complimentary welcome cocktails at Phil’s Carousel Bar. Additional offers will include a 15% dining discount in November and a complimentary upgrade to Star tier when enrolling in Bally’s Rewards, plus free parking all year with your Star Card.
All offers require valid proof of U.S. military or veteran status. Guests must be 21 or older to check into the hotel and redeem offers. Blackout dates may apply. Management reserves all rights.
U.S. News and World Report has proudly recognized Gloucester High School in Gloucester City as one of the Best High Schools for 2025. This prestigious honor marks the school’s impressive ninth consecutive year of achieving high rankings at the national, Philadelphia area, and New Jersey levels. According to Sean Gorman, Superintendent and High School Principal, along with Doctor of Education Kimberly Chiodi, Assistant Superintendent at Gloucester High School, the school has been placed in the top 40 percent of all public high schools, both nationwide and in the Philadelphia area. This continuous success highlights the school’s commitment to academic excellence and the enrichment of its students.
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A closer look at user-submitted crime data on platforms like Nextdoor shows that this information can often be misleading and should not be trusted to accurately reflect the crime rate in neighborhoods like Westville. Studies have shown that neighborhood social apps tend to boost users’ fears, leading to an exaggerated sense of danger and the belief that crime is more common than it really is. For a better understanding of crime statistics, it is important to consult credible, official sources for accurate data. Such as the chief of police. (Source AI)
Not baseball or football season, but THE POLITICAL SEASON!
Democrat and Republican signs are up, asking people for their votes. Nationwide, only 28 percent of people consider themselves strong Republicans or Democrats who vote straight down party lines.
Forty-eight percent of people vote not for the party, but for the candidate.
For 45 of the last 48 years, the Gloucester City Democratic Party has controlled the City Council. This has posed a danger to our democracy. Lacking checks and balances isn’t good for our community.
In Gloucester City, I’ve always believed our greatest asset is the good people who live here. Many of them prefer not to get involved in petty local politics that prioritize the party over the people.
It is what it is!
As I look out my window, I see city workers mowing the lawn on the corner lot owned by the city for the first time in several months. Yes, the political season has begun.
Maple Shade, NJ. Formerly of New Brunswick, On October 18, 2025. Age 75. Marie is survived by her son, Lewis Cherville and will be sadly missed by her friends and staff at The Palace Rehab and Care Center.
Graveside services will be celebrated at 10:00 am on Friday, October 24th in Waterford Memorial Park Cemetery, 679 Pestleton Road, Waterford, NJ.
Funeral Arrangements and Inquiries may be made through: McCann-Healey Funeral Home, Gloucester City. Ph: 856-456-1142 www.mccannhealey.com
