Linden News

Union County Freeholder Vernell Wright congratulates John Biel of Westfield on winning first place in the non-professional mixed media category at the 2013 Union County Senior Art Show during the opening reception for the exhibit at the Elizabethtown Gas Company's Liberty Hall Center in Union.

A 33-year-old city man has been charged with attempting to break into a West Blancke Street home by kicking in a basement window.

Linden police late Sunday arrested a city on charges of carrying a sawed-off shotgun while he and another man walking along railroad property off East Baltimore Avenue.

The following is a list of job openings in the Springfield area. Click on the links below to learn more about each position.

On Route 22 westbound there were delays approaching Garden State Parkway in Union.

Gunshots were reported in Linden in two separate incidents two hours and three blocks apart Wednesday night.

Hurricane Sandy turned rail yards into rivers in Kearny and Hoboken, leading to the damage of nearly 350 train cars and locomotives.

United Fiber & Data completed its engineering and preparation of the river crossings that transport its new greenfield fiber-optic network across the Hudson and Passaic Rivers in northern New Jersey, the company said in a news release.

The Union County Department of Human Services Division on Aging & Division of Special Services will offer a senior citizen outreach program at the Linden Public Library on Thursday, June 13, at 10 a.m. in the Columbia Bank Room.

The New Jersey State Police are investigating a recent series of carjackings in which suspects impersonating police officers have pulled vehicles over at gunpoint and stolen the victims' cars.

Vehicle exhaust system, with a catalytic converter, upper right, cut open. Linden police say thieves are snatching converters to sell for the precious metals they contain.

"It's just amazing," Carol Schlein said, as she scanned the crowd that surrounded her and her children inside the George Inness Annex.

The talk will cover how seniors can receive benefits from a variety of programs dealing with pharmaceutical assistance, gas and electric bills, state health insurance and home energy assistance.

She's not as powerful as Sandy, but Andrea left New Jersey waterlogged with torrential rain that caused flash-flooding.

Two men are being tried in Superior Court in Elizabeth on charges they tried to rob an off-duty Newark police officer and his date as they entered a room at a Linden motel in 2009 ELIZABETH - On May 18, 2009, Kenneth Green pulled a gun on a man entering a room at the Swan motel in Linden, then forced the man and his date inside, not knowing the man ... (more)

A cab driver for Linden Yellow Cab tried to rescue a man inside his burning Keep Street home, after he was the first to spot the fire Wednesday when he dropped off a passenger in the area.

The scholarship was established in 2009 by the Stagg family in memory of their daughter Sandra, a member of the Class of 1983 who passed away during her senior year at the Scotch Plains-based high school.

A 12-year veteran Cranford Police Officer pleaded guilty to harassing a woman while he was on duty two years ago, officials said.

LINDEN - One person has been killed this afternoon in a fire that has consumed a single-family home in Linden, a police captain on scene said.

Union County Sheriff Ralph Froehlich, pictured last year at the sheriff department's Youth Academy in Scotch Plains, joined incumbent freeholder candidates in handily defeating primary challenges tonight.