Edison News

Anuva Goel likes to read a variety of books, but she is particularly found of the Magic Treehouse series.

When Scott Bennett, the accused habitual offender who has been in and out of jail while he awaits disposition of a number of charges - including vehicular homicide - was recently released on bail, he was told his freedom depended on complying with certain conditions.

A substitute teacher at the township Job Corps center was arrested Wednesday on charges he paid a teenage student to give him nude photos of herself, authorities said.

Central Jersey residents will be celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in their usual style with plenty of fireworks, a parade, music, and lots of hot dogs and hamburgers.

Edison Mayor Jun Choi and his wife, Lisa Lee. Edison Mayor Jun Choi took a break from the beleaguered world of his township's politics last Tuesday.

A township emergency medical technician is challenging a three-and-a-half-month suspension he was issued for insubordination, unauthorized absence and misrepresentation of military status.

MAYOR JUN H. CHOI and the Township of Edison will host a grand fireworks display to celebrate the Fourth of July.

Sunday's editorial in the Home News Tribune was disingenuous and misleading concerning the position of the Edison Fire Fighters Association.

Spotswood High School graduate Kate Miller -- who experiences epileptic seizures -- got through her junior and senior years thanks largely to Greta, a golden retriever who remained at her side throughout the school day.

An Edison firefighter filed a federal lawsuit against Mayor Jun Choi and Fire Chief Norman Jensen, saying they violated his Constitutional rights by suspending him over a poster on his pickup truck that criticized the mayor.

Two dozen homes around Amboy Avenue were temporarily evacuated Wednesday after a construction crew caused a gas line to rupture, police said.

A township man has been charged with robbing a Route 27 bank earlier this month after someone who thought they recognized him in a photo posted on MyCentralJersey.com tipped off police about his identity, authorities said.

The leaders of Edison's largest municipal unions, those that represent its police and firefighters, claim that Mayor Jun Choi's call for them to accept 12 unpaid furloughs days or face the prospect of widespread job losses is a way of punishing their members for not supporting Choi during this month's mayoral primary, which Choi lost to ...

Elias Holtzman is a World War II veteran and a longtime journalist. But those are not the only reasons the township resident received the Outstanding Citizen of the Year Award from the Edison Chamber of Commerce.

A visitor to the Delaware & Raritan Canal became one of its greatest boosters. That visitor, F. Hopkinson Smith, wrote in a major magazine, "Canalling is an ideal way to travel.

A Piscataway man is fighting for his life after he was injured late Thursday night in a head-on motor vehicle crash on Oak Tree Road, police said.

The township administration's budget outlook for fiscal year 2010 shows a projected municipal tax rate increase of 2.25 percent.

A township man was struck and fatally injured by an SUV late Saturday when he was crossing Route 1 against traffic, police said.

A mathematics teacher at Edison High School was arrested Monday and charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan and Edison Police Director Brian Collier.

A township jewelry store owner died after being exposed to cyanide he was apparently using for a gold-plating process, according to authorities.