North Plainfield News

A North Plainfield woman was placed on probation Friday for falsely reporting that her car had been stolen.

For once here is a good story about three good samaritans. My daughter's car was stuck in a field of mud on Warfield Road.

Somerset County initially wanted an order of 30,000 doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine to serve the towns that use it for health department services.

Ruth Sobuskey died Monday, Nov. 1, 2009 at her home. She was 87. She was born in Westfield and had lived in North Plainfield before moving to Manchester 24 years ago.

A man charged with stalking a woman after she lent him her minivan, accused him of driving it drunk, then called police when he refused to leave her home is being sought by authorities.

Voters will choose two members of Town Council on Election Day, in a three-way race that pits two incumbents against a former Town Council member.

The Patel brothers know what it takes to run an Indian supermarket. Kalpesh Patel, 32, and Mukund Patel, 42, began opening stores 14 years ago in Ohio, Virginia and New Jersey.

Five area teen musicians will present a showcase of music for piano and violin on Sunday, Oct.

A murder conviction would put the five young men accused of robbing and brutally beating a Guatemalan immigrant in Plainfield behind bars for at least 30 years.

For Democrats running for seats of the Somerset County Board of Freeholders, the number represents what they say is a lack of productive dissent on the panel in charge of county government.

VIP HONDA WALKS FOR LOVE HOPE STRENGTH NORTH PLAINFIELD, NJ: VIP Honda, part of the Bill Vince Auto Group, Route 22 East at Somerset Street in North Plainfield, was a sponsor of the Love Hope Strength Foundation 2009 Walkathon, reported VIP Honda General Mgr., Adam Kuczynski.

A civil lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the wife and eight children of a Guatemalan immigrant from North Plainfield who authorities say was beaten to death in a bias attack in 2007.

In some ways, the township's new, $23.9 million municipal complex and the planning process around it symbolize what Council President Patrick Scaglione hopes to accomplish in government and why he got involved in the first place.

Some of Cecilia Xie Birge's earliest memories are from the labor camps where she and her mother were held during China's Cultural Revolution.

A Plainfield man who was four days shy of his 18th birthday when he shot and killed an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire of a feud between rival gangs has been convicted of aggravated manslaughter by a Union County jury.

Iwish I were clever. I always wanted to be the type of person who could think of locker-room-type humorous names to put on the roll-call sign-in sheet for the substitute teacher.

High school football writer Mike Kinney and Matt Stanmyre talk about the the lacrosse-football juggernaut Summit High School who has been on a big winning streak since the spring lacrosse season.

A Flemington man has been arrested in the attempted robbery of a Bank of America branch on Somerset Street early last week, authorities said Tuesday.

The conviction of a North Plainfield man on sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child charges has been reversed by a state Appellate Court and returned for a trial in Superior Court.

When Patricia Toubin returned to Watchung Hills Regional High School a few weeks ago, it wasn't as a teacher of Family and Consumer Science, Foods, and Child Development courses.