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THEFT, 9:30 p.m. Sept. 26: A victim reported that unknown actors smashed a window of his vehicle while it was parked on Townsend Place.

A North Plainfield couple accused of leaving their newborn grandson submerged in a toilet have until next Friday to either ac cept a plea deal or start preparing for a March trial, their attorneys said ...

Plainfield's superintendent of schools, Dr. Steve Gallon III, addressed members and guests of the Rotary Club of Plainfield-North Plainfield at their weekly meeting on September 17 at Giovanna's Restaurant in ...

Two men accused of ripping a gold chain off another man Monday afternoon were quickly apprehended by police officers who encountered the pair just before the alleged crime occurred, authorities said.

Despite persistent showers, the 27th annual parade to honor native son and national hero Marine Sgt.

A New Brunswick man who was part of a burglary ring operating there, North Plainfield and Mountainside, has been indicted on charges stemming from burglaries at the Cypress Gardens apartment complex in North ...

FAILURE TO STOP, 9:06 a.m. Sept. 24: Police responded to the intersection of Dead Tree and River roads for a car crash.

Somewhere along the line, between when she stepped in the door as a 16-year-old seeking a part-time job in 1982 and today, being the 42-year-old owner of The Park Florist on Park Avenue, Maribel Gonzalez made ...

NORTH PLAINFIELD: POSSESSION OF A HYPODERMIC NEEDLE, 9:25 a.m. Sept. 23: Police said Kevin Washington, 49, of Plainfield was stopped in the area of Washington Avenue and the border of Plainfield on a bicycle ...

The stately campus of Mount St. Mary Academy has a serene quality to it, with the Watchung Reservation as its backdrop, ethereally named gardens and serpentine, landscaped roads leading to the campus.

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DRUNKEN DRIVING, 12:07 a.m. Sept. 12: While on patrol, police stopped a black Chevrolet Cavalier that was traveling northbound on West End Avenue "at an extremely slow rate of speed," according to a police ...

Dionys Rivas is sentenced in Somerset County courthouse today.. A North Plainfield teen who was acquitted of murder, but convicted of conspiracy and theft, was sentenced today to eight years in prison.

A former North Plainfield man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in state prison under the terms of a plea deal after a jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict on whether he purposely stabbed to death an ...

Whether the dogs are blind, deaf, paralyzed, old or sick, members of the Dachshund Rescue of North America Inc.

Worried her foster children were abusing drugs, a Franklin Township woman installed a software-monitoring program on the home computer.

Freeholders will vote tonight on $250,000 in initial funding for a program that will allow towns and school districts to examine their facilities for potential energy savings.

State education officials lauded statistics released Monday that show a slight statewide decrease in violent incidents in public schools but dismissed findings in the same study that show increases in bullying ...

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Police broke up a party and charged four college students with providing alcohol to people under the legal drinking age, authorities said.