Phillipsburg News

A Phillipsburg man and convicted sex offender admitted in court today that he had a sawed off shotgun stashed in his town home during an hour-long standoff with police last year.

Phillipsburg police responded about 6:50 tonight to a crash involving at least two cars at Roseberry and Marshall streets , at the end of the northbound jug-handle from Route 22 East.

After authorities charged an intoxicated Phillipsburg man with trying to rape his tenant, Warren County prosecutors sought a five-year state prison sentence.

Police spoke to a Green Street resident who told them when he came home he discovered somebody had entered his residence and removed several items.

After punching a man in the face, a Phillipsburg woman was arrested Thursday on assault and drug paraphernalia charges, according to police.

The 34-year-old Phillipsburg man allegedly found soggy and with change from Easton's Centre Square fountain could have collected every corroded penny in the fountain and still only made off with about $2, city Public Works Director David Hopkins said.

An elderly New Jersey woman claims her Constitutional rights are being violated after a local public housing authority ordered her to remove three small American flags from the balcony of her apartment and an expert on Constitutional law said she may have a case.

James Yarnell, 34, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey was charged with Theft of mislaid property after police say they responded to Easton's Center Square fountain for a man taking change from the water early Tuesday morning.

Take a look at some of the best in photographs sent to the Warren Reporter during the week of May 18-25, 2012.

In a solemn ceremony following the fanfare of two Memorial Day parades, the mayors of Easton and Phillipsburg dropped a memorial wreath from the free bridge into the Delaware River today.

Phillipsburg native Christina Wilson says she always had a lot of respect for chef Gordon Ramsay, even before she met him on the set of "Hell's Kitchen." Christina Wilson vows to never again utter, "I could've done that," when she's watching television and sees a reality show contestant botch some seemingly easy task.

In 1962, a dump fire in Centralia, Pa., ignited a slow-burning blaze in underground coal deposits that continues to smolder to this day.

Town police report two thefts: Someone cut and removed copper pipes and wiring from inside a residence on the first block of Fox Street, police were told May 16.

As the dismissal bell rang Tuesday at Phillipsburg High School , senior Natalia Pfeifer was appalled at the sight awaiting her outside.

Freedom High school performs a scene from "Thoroughly Modern Millie" on Thursday evening during the Freddy Awards show at the State Theatre.

Police arrested Meagan Smickle , 23, of the 500 block of Oxford Street in Belvidere , and Jeremy Stokes , 25, of the 100 block of Morris Street, early Wednesday morning following a domestic dispute that shattered various pieces of glass furniture and covered the Center Street residence with blood, according to police.

The 19-year-old Warren County man facing sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child charges was arrested Tuesday for allegedly violating a sexual offender restraining order, according to court records.

A camera was stolen from a vehicle parked on the 100 block of Frost Avenue the night of May 16-17. The vehicle was parked in front of the residence overnight.

A former employee of a Lopatcong Township concrete manufacturing company is alleging he was wrongfully fired following months of discrimination, harassment and injury, according to a civil complaint filed in New Jersey Superior Court in Belvidere .

Two weeks after borough officials agreed to take the plunge with Phillipsburg police officer Larry Marino and negotiate terms on a pool lease, he presented council with a plan.