Iselin News

A Jackson woman lost $1,000 in cash and her wedding band when her purse was stolen Monday from her unlocked car.

When Victor Varanay spent the Fourth of July on the Japanese island of Saipan in 1944, the rockets' red glare was real.

City emergency medical technicians, scheduled to be laid off Wednesday, will remain on the job - for now.

Wholesale commercial insurance brokerage NAPCO has relocated its corporate headquarters to an 11,000-square foot office inside the Woodbridge Hotel and Conference Center complex in Iselin, New Jersey.

The International Longshoremen's Association, AFL-CIO and New York Shipping Association, Inc.

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

An Iselin man who helped get a stabbing victim in Maryland to a hospital last week is now being held there on $20,000 bail on charges he trespassed into the woods where the attack took place, authorities said.

Frances Brown, an 84-year-old resident of Fords, remembers calling the St. John's First Aid Squad four years ago.

French class? Passe. Latin? Finis. Try Chinese, Arab and now, Hindi. The future of the United States depends on it, according to the federal government, which is pushing schools to teach students foreign languages deemed vital to the country's economy and national security.

A Marlboro businessman who skipped out on a $1 million bail bond is now a fugitive facing 15 years in prison, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

A Washington man police say was stabbed nine times by a 17-year-old girl in a western Maryland camp has been released from the hospital and charged with trespassing.

Police are investigating two incidents in which car windows were smashed and items were stolen from cars.

The White House on Tuesday dashed hopes that the federal government would help California overcome a mammoth budget crisis that has brought the state dangerously close to an economic meltdown, saying the state will have to solve the problem on its own.

A Wayne resident had his briefcase stolen from the inside of his rental car when a burglar smashed the passenger side window, police said.

A state appeals court has overturned the murder conviction of a South Plainfield man accused of strangling his estranged girlfriend, saying the trial court erred when it allowed the defendant's former wife to testify that he threatened to kill her seven years earlier.

On Sunday evening a single-vehicle accident killed a Fort Washington, Md. man on Interstate 95 after he lost control of the 1997 Toyota Camry he was driving.

An Woodbridge-based developer wants to turn a former Exxon gasoline station on the corner of Union Avenue and Roosevelt Place into a 7-Eleven. The 0.43-acre site, across the street from a Rite Aid, has been unused for more than a decade, according to documents filed with the application of Sufalam Inc.

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The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association baseball and softball championships scheduled for Saturday have been postponed and rescheduled for Sunday.

A Bank of America branch in Iselin had just been robbed at gunpoint, and Woodbridge police officers were searching all over the township for the two men responsible.