Plainfield News

Scotch Plains police activity from May 13 - 20, 2013: 5/13 A resident of Clydesdale Rd.

Carlos Dominguez, senior vice president at Cisco Systems, delivers the commencement address during the NJIT commencement ceremony at the Prudential Center in Newark.

NORTH PLAINFIELD - Three Plainfield residents have been charged after trying to steal a washer and dryer from the basement of a vacant house, authorities said.

Barbara Mullin, member of the Rake and Hoe Garden Club of Westfield, will be installed as president of the Garden Club of NJ at the annual meeting on June 6 at the Bridgewater Marriott.

PLAINFIELD - Vickie is a 6-month-old pit bull mix in the care of the Plainfield Area Humane Society.

Andrew Smith , a Summit resident, attorney, and former Republican candidate for the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, has a few things to say about how county government is run.

FANWOOD - Joseph Calderone, 50, of South Plainfield was charged with driving while intoxicated after an officer stopped the vehicle Calderone was driving in the 300 block of Midway Avenue on May 6 at 3:55 p.m. for a violation, police said.

Sandra Hockridge, who will retire after 26 years as Watchung Hills Regional High School's Adult School director/administrator, has compared her position to that of an artist who is faced with a huge, blank canvas that has to be filled in with all kinds of themes, colors, motifs.

It was just something Wawa employees expected every day. Anthony Verdicchio would come in every day, buy a small cup of coffee and a plain donut, and spend some time "chit chatting." Then, the 76-year-old Plainfield native would head over to the News Stand and volunteer, selling newspapers.

Police say a man posing as a utility worker is wanted for 18 burglaries in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

NORTH PLAINFIELD - Two school bus drivers have accused their union representative of being a "bully and a male chauvinist" and the school board of taking away their seniority perks and freezing their wages because they're women.

WATCHUNG - A Scotch Plains resident was taken into custody in Westfield at 7:55 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, and charged with shoplifting $79.76 worth of cell phones from Walmart on Route 22 earlier in the day.

NORTH PLAINFIELD - Citing "overwhelming evidence" of his guilt, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a resisting arrest conviction of a former North Plainfield man who fled from police in February 2010 after being suspected of having cocaine.

"You might remember me from my days as the gopher in advertising at the Bridgeton Evening News , working for my uncle, Jim Homan, back in the late '70s/early '80s. "I have been employed by MRP Structural Steel Fabricatio, in South Plainfield, as Safety & Logistics manager for the past seven years.

The Westfield Fire Department with assistance from other local crews extinguished a two-alarm fire at 714 Hanford Place on Wednesday afternoon.

May 1: A business in the 100 block of Central Avenue reported the theft of approximately $556.45 worth of Wusthof kinves between 8 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. The matter is under investigation.

A northern New Jersey dad accused of severely beating his 3-month-old son last week will now face murder charges following the child's death.

A Plainfield man has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly severely beating his 3-month-old child to death.

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Natalie Yang, 44, of Teaneck, whose car was stopped after a random license plate inquiry on April 24 because her drivers' license had been suspended, police said.