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The state changed their locks, but that didn’t stop a New Jersey diner from inviting patrons to eat inside, despite coronavirus restrictions. Lakeside Diner owners Debbie and Brian Brindisi received a call from their alarm company at 4:30 a.m. Friday to notify them that all of the doors had been broken into in Forked River, NJ.com reported. “We came down here,” Debbie said. “The [Ocean County] sheriff’s department was here. A locksmith was here. Lacey Township police were here. They were changing the locks.” But Brian managed to get inside and refused to leave — then welcomed the breakfast crowd for...

Reassurance about the public's safety is coming from the U-S Nuclear Regulatory Commission following word of the release of a small amount of radiation when the Oyster Creek Nuclear power plant in Ocean County was shut down this week. N-R-C spokesman Neil Sheehan says a Senior Health Physicist was on hand at the time the reactor was being vented releasing a weak radioisotopeTritium. He says "the Physicist looked at the plant's data on what was emitted and is very confident that this didn't represent any sort of threat to members of the public." Oyster Creek's parent company AmerGen, a subsidiary...