New Brunswick News

A woman known as 'Boo-Boo' has been charged with attempting to murder a South Plainfield woman on July 2 in the back yard of a Grove Street residence.

A Perth Amboy man who confessed that he beat, bound and gagged his roommate after the roommate threatened to out him as a gay man, then stood by as he slowly died, failed in his bid Thursday to vacate his guilty plea.

The first phase of a major reconstruction of one of the city's major business districts is set to begin.

The driver of a car that crashed into a utility pole on Cedar Lane in Edison in July 2008, killing his two roommates, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of vehicular homicide.

The City Council has voted to give an additional $200,000 in federal housing money to the Mount Zion Community Development Corp.

Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea , researchers report.

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.