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CBS News
31-07-2025
- General
- CBS News
New Jersey workers rescue pregnant stingray in labor after washing up on shoreline
Barbara Maurer says sitting under the Ventnor Fishing Pier is her happy place. "I usually go to the beach about three or four times a week, and I go early in the morning," said Maurer, who lives in Galloway Township. On Tuesday, Maurer spotted something on the shoreline that caught her attention, and she knew it needed help. "I was walking along the beach and I seen this beautiful stingray, one of the biggest ones I've ever seen," she said. Maurer says she couldn't move the ray herself so she tracked down a group of workers with Ventnor City Public Works Department. "I could tell the stingray was alive because I saw its eyes moving and its tail occasionally move," Maurer said. The Public Works Crew brought in a front loader. The Superintendent told CBS News Philadelphia the workers quickly realized the stingray was in labor, so they carefully moved the sand underneath the ray about an inch or two at a time until they reached a point where the water was deep enough for the stingray to swim away. "We should not be surprised to see that kind of ray around here but we should be surprised to see it up on the beach like that," said Thomas Grothues, the Director of the Rutgers University Marine Field Station. Grothues believes it was an Atlantic stingray, which weigh about 40-50 pounds. He said stingrays usually have one to four babies at a time. "What's unusual here is that the ray is out of the water so it's probably stressed, so even if it wasn't quite ready to give birth it would do that," he said. The stingray was successfully released into the wild, and Grothues said the mom and her babies have a good chance of survival. "Those guys were heroes in my book because if you can save a life whether it be an animal, a person, a sea creature, they're heroes," Maurer said.
CBS News
04-06-2025
- Sport
- CBS News
New Jersey's Stockton University prepares to host soccer players ahead of FIFA Club World Cup
This New Jersey university is preparing to host a Brazilian soccer team ahead of FIFA Club World Cup This New Jersey university is preparing to host a Brazilian soccer team ahead of FIFA Club World Cup This New Jersey university is preparing to host a Brazilian soccer team ahead of FIFA Club World Cup Some of the best soccer players in the world will soon arrive in New Jersey. Lincoln Financial Field will host matches for the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup in Philadelphia, but Stockton University has also been selected as a training site. Focusing on straight lines and overlapping passes, the grounds team at the school in Galloway Township is mowing the soccer field with precision. Crews are working around the clock after FIFA announced CR Flamengo from Brazil will be the team spending roughly two weeks training in South Jersey. "CR Flamengo is one of the most popular teams in the world with over 57 million followers," said Jeff Haines, the associate director of athletics and recreation at Stockton. "The university realizes how big of a deal this is, not just from a local soccer standpoint, but a global standpoint that puts Stockton on the map." Fresh lines were painted on the soccer field on Tuesday, and FIFA shipped new goals ahead of the practice sessions. The university's athletic director, Tony Berich, said representatives from Brazil visited the campus in December, and one of the selling points was the Bermuda grass inside G. Larry James Stadium. "I don't know if we would have this opportunity if we didn't have this field, I don't think we would have even been considered," Berich said. Stockton's field was grown at Tuckahoe Turf Farms in Hammonton, the same farm working with FIFA and Lincoln Financial Field, so it will be a smooth transition for CR Flamengo. Tuckahoe Turf Farms CBS News Philadelphia All of the practices on Stockton's campus will be closed to the public. The university installed temporary fencing around the stadium to keep the players and the field more secure. "We do have experience in hosting big events and soccer teams, this is another big exciting event that we're really looking forward to," Haines said. In 1994, Stockton hosted Saudi Arabia's team ahead of the World Cup. "We were also fortunate enough to host Nigeria in 1996 for their Olympic training camp as well. Nigeria went on to win the gold medal," Haines said. Now, Stockton is preparing for CR Flamengo's arrival on June 12, and the team will train in Galloway Township through June 23. Officials say the field and facilities will be ready. "This is the one chance that we have to be associated with … a worldwide event like this," Berich said.
