Atlantic City, Wildwood, Margate, and Ocean City are among the towns that have banned ocean swimming as the hurricane moves north.

Swimming was off limits here and in many shore towns on Wednesday, but Cove Beach, the southernmost point in New Jersey, surfing is allowed and celebrated. And many surfers were taking advantage of what Mother Nature was giving them. The parking lot was ...

“She was a happy girl, a very happy girl,” her heartbroken mother Ishrath Parveen told NJ Advance Media Tuesday evening. She and her son Syed Rahman say they’re left with memories and a traumatized younger sister. They shared some of the excruciating details of a Friday night they wish never happened.