New Brunswick News

A propane torch being used to burn off old paint caused a fire that broke out at a Jones Avenue home late Wednesday morning, authorities said.

An attacker struck a South River man in the head with a gun early Wednesday morning during an attempt to rob him and a woman in a Route 18 parking lot, police said.

Two area medical health facilities - the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center in Perth Amboy and the Eric B. Chandler Health Center in New Brunswick - will be sharing in nearly $17 million in federal stimulus funds aimed at addressing facility and equipment needs and increasing access to health care for underserved populations.

An unidentified male in his late 20s found dead in his New Brunswick apartment this morning was apparently the victim of a homicide, authorities said.

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is telling supporters that President Barack Obama will campaign with him.

A man sent to prison for killing a drug dealer in Union County and for a home invasion on Stone Street in New Brunswick that led to the rape of three Rutgers University students in March 2004 has lost the appeal of his conviction in the slaying.

A unit of drugmaker Johnson & Johnson says a federal jury has returned a $1.67 billion verdict against Abbott Laboratories in a patent infringement suit over the companies' rheumatoid arthritis drugs.

The orbit of Mars is going to come perilously close to New Brunswick this weekend.

Three Middlesex County schools will take part in a two-year pilot program beginning this fall aimed at creating a more personalized and focused education experience for New Jersey students.

Two members of the Bloods street gang have admitted to their roles in the drive-by killing of another gang member on Hampton Road in New Brunswick in November 2007.

With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Jon S. Corzine Thursday changed the landscape of higher education and health care in South Jersey.

An Old Bridge karate instructor faces six years in prison for having sex with his 15-year-old student.

Superior Court facilities in both New Brunswick and Somerville will be closed Monday, June 29, along with the rest of the statewide court system, because of New Jersey's fiscal woes.

Three men apparently sitting in a car were sprayed by bullets last night, but all survived the attack, police said.

NEW BRUNSWICK - A Colonia man has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in a drunken-driving crash that killed a Perth Amboy police officer last year.

Police have arrested a second resident in connection with an attack on two men earlier this month near the railroad tracks behind a vacant Institute Street home.

The New Brunswick Free Public Library will host two vocalists in a performance of works ranging from the music of Antonio Vivaldi to that of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joaquin Turina and many others on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00 p.m. The program, held in the Library's Carl T. Valenti Community Room at 60 Livingston Ave., is open to the public and free ...

When East meets West, or West meets East as the case may be, joining the two presents unique challenges.

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.

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.