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An effort between civilians and rescue workers helped stop a suicidal man from jumping off the Atlantic City Expressway overpass early Friday morning. TaShona Sparkmon would never be coming home from work just before 1 a.m. And she definitely wouldn’t be taking the Atlantic City Expressway. But a series of events Thursday led her past the exit near Franklin Boulevard just in time to see the man as he climbed the gate in an attempt

The warrant to search Dr. James Kauffman’s office gives insight into a multimillion dollar prescription fraud case that involved several public employees. There is also information about kickbacks Kauffman may have gotten from a blood collection operation. To date, 19 people have pleaded guilty in federal court to compounding fraud, including firefighters from Margate and Atlantic City, and a Margate doctor. The compounding cases represent about $50 million in fraudulent charges. While the accompanying public

April Kauffman was killed to protect more than an Oxycontin ring, an affidavit in the case against her husband shows. The veterans advocate and local radio host was attempting to use the knowledge of her husband’s illicit scheme to “leverage a financially beneficial divorce,” according to the sealed 69-page search warrant affidavit obtained by a reporter working for BreakingAC. A burner phone appears to have been used to plot her killing, and perhaps the underlying

Lisa Jackson had the perfect song to tell her daughter how she felt about her. The song “Why I Love You” by MAJOR perfectly captured the mother’s love for her little girl. Just before 4-year-old Antonia Miles passed away last week from Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, an inoperable brain tumor, Jackson tried to put a video montage of her daughter together to the song, but was unable to do it. “I used to play this

Ronda Lampkin has shed tears on both sides of violence. In 2011, her 19-year-old son was fatally shot inside a car as he and friends drove down the White Horse Pike in Galloway Township. No one has ever been charged. Now, her 16-year-old grandson  is indicted for attempted murder in the Sept. 19, 2016, shooting of 20-year-old Shakeem Roberts in Atlantic City. Teen arrested in shooting that wounded Atlantic City man An Atlantic City teen

Snitch. That’s the nicest word Andrew Glick’s former Pagan Motorcycle Club mates have to say about him. The Egg Harbor Township man outed himself as a key witness in the state’s April Kauffman case in an interview with the Toronto Star published Thursday. But it’s not news to the Pagans, or anyone who has seen the paperwork in the case. Glick — who was known as Chef — is the only name in the affidavits

An emotional 911 call reveals the desperation of an Egg Harbor Township couple after a teen was shot inside their home last month. “I’ve never seen nothing like this in my life,” Amador Campos tells the 911 operator in a recording obtained by BreakingAC. Alejandro Gonzalez Santos Jr., 16, died inside the Woodrow Avenue home. A 17-year-old is charged with aggravated manslaughter in the killing. While the 911 operator refers to the victim as the couple’s