South Plainfield News

Emergency crews responded to Wade Avenue on Thursday afternoon for a reported HazMat situation that forced the evacuation of a business on that street, police said.

Middlesex Borough police are warning residents to guard against home burglaries following a series of incidents there and in three neighboring communities.

A chemical reaction at a South Plainfield industrial firm touched off a potentially noxious cloud of fumes Thursday, forcing the evacuation of two businesses but causing no injuries, according to local authorities.

A woman known as 'Boo-Boo' has been charged with attempting to murder a South Plainfield woman on July 2 in the back yard of a Grove Street residence.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to form a citizens panel to advise the agency on the cleanup of the Woodbrook Road Dump Superfund site.

A 55-year-old South Plainfield woman was charged with drunken driving after state police said she attempted suicide early Tuesday afternoon by driving down a steep embankment from a scenic overlook on Interstate 78.

If there is any silver lining to the cloud of sprawl that has spread its shadow across this state we live in, it may be this: New Jersey has an abundance of rooftops on which to mount solar panels! If you have ever flown over New Jersey on your way into or out of Newark Liberty Airport, you've seen acres upon acres of nice, flat roofs that cry out ...

A state Appellate Court has ruled that a statement made by the 13-year-old son of a defendant's girlfriend could be used to obtain a search warrant that eventually led to guilty pleas for drug and weapons charges, and a five-year prison sentence.

During the month of June, The Jan-Ai Scholarship Fund gave out more than $7,500 in scholarships, cash awards and savings bonds to 17 students.

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.

Even though rocker Milan Lazistan of North Plainfield co-wrote and performed the theme song for the new MavTV show 'Body Shots,'' which features bikini-clad hosts discussing alcohol, he didn't receive a free beer nor a date with a host.

The latest stop on the long and winding tale of the South Plainfield truck route is a $1 million bond ordinance approved this week to improve the bypass route now being used by heavy trucks.

The South Plainfield Pathmark at 3600 Park Ave. celebrated its grand opening June 26.

The column by Jay Jefferson Cooke entitled 'Actions Speak Louder Than Words' got it right.

More than 60 years ago, somewhere in northwest Germany near the Rhine River, a 23-year-old U.S. troop member took a bullet in the back from a German soldier's rifle during a routine operation to seek out and capture enemy forces.

Jun 23, 2009 4:52 pm US/Eastern Reporting Cindy Hsu SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. Hundreds of high school seniors were set to graduate in South Plainfield Tuesday, but most of their teachers decided not to attend the ceremony.

There were plenty of shoppers, scores of bright yellow signs promoting specials, balloons and a disc jockey playing music.

At Animal House Pet Grooming, owner Laura Approvato only cares about one thing: keeping the animals she works with happy.

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.

Nearly all of South Plainfield High School's teachers will not participate in tomorrow's graduation, a week after the district's board of education reversed a decision by school administrators to ban from the ceremony a group of students who came drunk to the prom.