Avenel News

The Woodbridge AARP Chapter No. 3869 has scheduled the meetings for 1 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at St.

An Avenel man has been indicted on the charge that he offered to perform work as a home-improvement contractor without being registered with the state.

Imagine reading the notes you passed around in class four years later? Or figuring out if the 'Vote for Obama' T-shirt you purchased is still relevant? That's exactly why Avenel Middle School's Class of 2009 is stashing away memories in a time capsule.

A cooking instructor at East Jersey State Prison in Avenel charged in May with having sex with an inmate and giving him a cell phone was found dead in a hotel in Newark, authorities said.

Two men face charges for allegedly arranging a drug sale with an Iselin man and then robbing him at the meeting place, police said.

A former East Jersey State Prison inmate accused of throwing urine on a corrections officer shortly before his release from the prison after serving time for drug and receipt of stolen property charges is being sought by authorities.

A large tree branch that broke under heavy morning rain caused some $3,000 worth of damage to an Avenel section woman's car, police said.

Taking money from bad guys to catch more bad guys. That's how Mayor John McCormac described the $390,000 the township Police Department has received to install cameras in 35 police vehicles.

A laptop computer and a box of billing papers are missing from KO Fro Foods in Avenel after an apparent burglary, police said.

A man reported the theft of his tractor-trailer from an area across from 1019 Homestead Ave.

There's much about Steve Lehman 's Travail, Transformation, and Flow that the packaging won't tell you.

It used to be that someone could walk into the men's restroom at the hall of American Legion Post 87 on Berry Street and read about fallen soldiers and local veterans on articles posted unceremoniously on the tiled walls.

Police arrested two men and a teenager Wednesday after they were caught driving in a car that was reported stolen in a carjacking the night before.

Want to know where your tax dollars are going? If so, visit the meetings of the Woodbridge Township Board of Education.

That extra dash of seasoning paid off for Jonathan Everin, the winner of the $5,000 first prize at the 20th annual New Jersey State Chili and Salsa Cook-off on Saturday.

TOMS RIVER: A 38-year-old Pittsburgh man caught in a sting operation that was televised in 2007 on Dateline NBC's 'To Catch a Predator' series has been sentenced to five years at New Jersey's correctional facility for sex offenders.

A cooking instructor at East Jersey State Prison in Avenel faces charges for allegedly having a sexual relationship with an inmate and giving him a cell phone, authorities said.

A Monmouth County man being held under the provisions of the state's Sexually Violent Predator Act lost an appeal for his release last week when an appellate court ruled his rights were not violated by his 2003 civil commitment.

A former city resident who served more than two decades in prison for two gruesome murders he did not commit has filed a lawsuit against the city, the county and current and former members of the Plainfield Police Division and Union County Prosecutor's Office.

PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> His ticket to politics is in the mail Terrence P Ruane, 55, the man tapped to be Bayonne's newest council member, has been the U.S. Postmaster for Bayonne since 2002.