Somerville News

Somerville is typically a welcome bastion of bipartisan government. Party designations seem to mean a little less in the borough than in other places, at least when it comes time for officials to tackle ...

HILLSBOROUGH: A township man whose track star son was killed by a train in July re mains in Morristown Memorial Hospital in good condition after his motorcycle crashed on Route 78 on Tuesday.

A majority of the Borough Council has expressed support for creating a department to better manage municipal parking operations, rather than a utility.

Two men and a teenager, all from Somerville, have been charged with robbing $2 in quarters from four youths at the Bridgewater Commons.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Robin Gaby Fisher will appear this month at two local bookstores alongside Seton Hall fire survivors Alvaro Llanos and Shawn Simons.

BRIDGEWATER - Navinchand Prashad, 54, died suddenly Saturday at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.

The fourth annual Somerville Sampler Day is scheduled for Sept. 20. While the details are still being worked out, the lengthier event this year - from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. - will include the usual mix of ...

A Plainfield man has been charged with stealing hearing aids from a Franklin, Somerset company and smuggling them out of the country to be sold on the black market in Colombia.

At least four more cruel robberies - a sudden punch in the face here, a gang-bang to the ground there - rocked the city Wednesday, two in broad daylight.

A township resident has been charged with violating the state's Contractors' Registration Act by performing home improvements at a Somerville home without having a license.

Don't let the cute name fool you. Hippity Hop Rabbit Rescue has a serious mission.

A new report from the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows Central Jersey hospitals have relatively low rates of "potentially preventable" hospitalizations.

Fee-Fei Kong had the "Oh man, I didn't mean to do that" look on her face. The 14-year-old girl from Warren was trying to do the releve passe position during a recent ballet class at the New Jersey School of ...

The Alma Liotta Award is given to volunteers who have given extraordinary service to Literacy Volunteers of Somerset County.

THEFT, 11:07 a.m. Aug. 14: A Lindsley Road resident reported that a vehicle was burglarized.

A famous American playwright with a connection to Somerset County will be the focus of a program at the Somerville Public Library next week.

New layers of government are rarely good things on any level, especially in New Jersey.

The hunt still appears to be under way for a new business to occupy a highly visible space downtown left vacant with the closing earlier this year of the deli Simply Incredible.

One might expect a chef to pen a book of recipes, but not Dwayne Kugler. The talented chef and co-owner of 18 West Grille in Raritan published a book of international travel photo essays in 2004, and there's ...

WHITEHOUSE STATION -Donald Joseph Sooy, 68, died Sunday, August 17, 2008, at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville.