Plainfield News

A Courier News investigation into allegations of substandard living conditions in apartments owned by Connolly Properties started Tuesday June 23 at Town & Country, a complex on West Seventh Street.

A vehicle owner whose show car has been in a South Plainfield impound lot for nearly three years will have to pay plenty in order to get his wheels back, according to a recent state appeals court ruling.

A New Jersey court ruling in a drunken driving case could change how police in the state treat suspects who don't speak English.

Plainfield's Neighborhood Health Center 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.

PLAINFIELD - New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission should consider translating into Spanish a statement given to all drunken-driving suspects.

The city's municipal waste-management organization on Wednesday announced a series of sweeping operational changes officials said are being made in response to a wave of public criticism.

City resident James Taylor looks like the last person anyone would want to cross.

John Kozak got shot in Germany in April of 1945. The U.S. Army delivered his Purple Heart in April of 2009.

Mary Bowers may be 86, but she still has the spunk of a teenager. The self-described "Georgia girl" came to live in the city 62 years ago, and in her 40s moved into the East Front Street Towers apartment.

It's going to be yesterday and tomorrow during for Plainfield Symphony's 90th anniversary gala concert, set to take place Oct.

The city's largest apartment complex is the target of a state Department of Environmental Protection investigation, officials said Friday.

Margaret Walker peered out her window and calmly stared at the open cellar door.

A Plainfield man has been indicted on charges of burglarizing a township restaurant five times between April 17 and May 25.

Police arrested 20 individuals Thursday in a 'reverse sting' operation to catch buyers at a city housing complex that is well-known for drug activity, authorities said.

Residents of the 700 block of East Second Street should have been outside enjoying a recently rare stretch of nice weather early Wednesday afternoon.

Board of Education members Wednesday defended their decision not to discuss in detail the panel's action allowing a few students accused of consuming alcohol before the senior prom to take part in Tuesday's high school graduation - a move that prompted a number of teachers to withhold their services at the ceremony.

Three men apparently sitting in a car were sprayed by bullets last night, but all survived the attack, police said.

Police were pressed into service as chaperones at South Plainfield High School's 2009 graduation last night after a number of teachers declined to perform the duty normally carried out by educators.

A municipal court session regarding a pair of summonses issued to Connolly Properties, the real-estate firm that owns a six-story city apartment building that has been without elevator service for more than four months, has been adjourned and rescheduled.

The state is looking for more parents like Terrance Burton and John Kelly. The North Plainfield residents care for three adoptive sons and four foster children, having welcomed a total of 15 children into their home since 2001.