Avenel News

The scene where one car struck another car, pushed it off the road sending it into a tree and then fleeing the scene on Route 4 east near Teaneck Road in Teaneck, NJ around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 19, 2012.

The DNA off a discarded cigarette broke the case of a rash of 100 vehicle break-ins in the Woodbridge area that took place in a single month last year.

CLIFTON - A new employee of a Flemington-based construction company remains in an induced coma after plummeting through a roof and into a tank of nitric acid at a Clifton pipe and tube manufacturer on Monday morning - his second day on the job.

April 30 at 10:22 p.m. - In the vicinity of the Garden State Parkway Circle, Officer Kenneth Gaulette arrested Elizabeth resident Christoph Garcia, 24, on an outstanding warrant from Sayreville for contempt of court.

The case between the owner of an Avenel pet store and the buyer of a puppy from that store that died of a dreaded canine disease has just ratcheted up a few notches.

A Middlesex County, N.J., man admitted to police that he broke into a Plainfield Township home and stole various electronic items, cash and jewelry, according to court records.