Columbia News

Tuesday, JUNE 23, 2009 a ' Americans drove more miles in April 2009 then the same month last year, recording a month-over-month VMT - or vehicle miles traveled - increase for the first time since October 2007.

As the Susquehanna-Roseland power line issue buzzes through northwestern New Jersey, PSE&G has made some tactical land purchases along the 45-mile route -- at no likely financial risk.

A South Carolina prosecutor said an attorney was justified when he shot and killed a robber from New Jersey at an Alcoholics Anonymous club in Columbia earlier this year.

More than 17 million U.S. children live more than one hour away from trauma care, researchers calculated.

I am writing you in regard to your 2009 GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test - in particular, to notify you about an obvious flaw in your methodology.

Six months after the Highlands Council said PSE&G's Susquehanna-Roseland power line plans are inconsistent with the Highlands master plan, the power company has submitted more eco-friendly plans for the 45-mile route running through northwestern New Jersey into Pennsylvania.

Congratulations to Far Hills Country Day School Student Meg Robbins of Bernardsville, NJ.

Results from the 2009 GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test rank New Jersey drivers 50th in the nation for their driving knowledge.

Police across the Delaware River in New Jersey arrested two people Friday on charges they operated a marijuana growing facility in Columbia, N.J. Police said when they seized the home at 32 Knowlton Road in Knowlton Township, they confiscated 124 marijuana plants and five pounds of processed marijuana.

KNOWLTON -- While serving a warrant at a Knowlton Road home, a pair of New Jersey State troopers reportedly discovered an apparent marijuana-growing operation inside the home, police said.

A South Carolina lawyer says he had no choice but to fire at a New Jersey man he says was trying to rob an Alcoholics Anonymous center in Columbia.

Students in grades six and nine in 15 of the state's schools will develop an educational road map for themselves next year as part of a pilot program recently announced by the state Department of Education a prospect that some area schools are already excited about.

Levittown - A New Jersey man has been shot and killed at an Alcoholic Anonymous center in South Carolina in what police say was a thwarted robbery.The State newspaper reported that Columbia police said Sunday that a visitor to the AA center shot and killed the 18-year-old man who was trying to rob members there.Richland County Coroner Gary Watts ...

Four months. One-third of the year. The average New Jersey resident has worked hard.

More than 50,000 additional summonses were issued in the past 11 months to people driving and talking on hand-held cell phones than were handed out during the previous five years, when police weren't authorized ...

New Jersey has joined in a multistate settlement with three beverage companies over claims that a green tea product aids weight loss.

A former teacher at a Summit private school who also served as a Minister of Music at a Short Hills church was arrested earlier this week and charged with sexual assault for an alleged relationship with a ...

WASHINGTON -- Automobile fatalities declined in New Jersey and 39 other states in 2008, according to a survey of state highway safety agencies, an early sign that traffic deaths could dip to their lowest levels ...

The driver of a garbage truck was charged with careless driving after his vehicle struck the rear of a school bus today in Warren County, State Police said.

HACKETTSTOWN -- Eight Centenary students were selected to travel to University of the Arts in Philadelphia this week to compete in the Region II Competition of the Kennedy Center American College Theater ...