Middlesex County News

An adoption ceremony and reception is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Middlesex County Courthouse in New Brunswick.

Middlesex County prosecutors say a former employee has admitted stealing more than $880,000 in equipment and cash from a Carteret-based trucking and warehousing firm.

Middlesex County freeholders will not name a new director of shared services, a money-saving decision that one freeholder fears will endanger initiatives to reduce costs.

A former computer technician for a Carteret trucking and warehousing company pleaded guilty in New Brunswick to one count of second-degree theft, admitting he stole more than $880,000 over a four-year period, authorities said.

A South Plainfield woman was awarded $1.5 million by a Middlesex County jury for injuries she suffered while being attacked by a pit bull at her father's Jackson home.

Swine flu vaccines are in short supply in one central New Jersey county. Pharmacies and health agencies in Middlesex County are either completely out of the vaccines or are severely rationing their supplies.

With doses nearly impossible to find in Middlesex County, most Central Jersey parents looking for the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine instead will have to keep reminding their children to wash their hands and hope the virus isn't already prevalent in school.

Christmas tree recycling in Middlesex County consists of primarily curbside pick up with regular garbage pick up, although some towns require you to drop the tree off yourself at the municipal recycling center.

Career burglar Samuel Krosky has lost a bid to have his 25-year sentence for a long string of burglaries reconsidered.

College will conduct an open house for prospective students for its new certificate program in Addition Studies.

A man on the run for three years after allegedly shooting and seriously injuring four people outside a borough White Castle has been arrested, authorities said.

Convincing signs of continued growth in Middlesex County's Republican base are revealed in preliminary analysis of the November 3 election statistics, according to County Republican chairman Joseph P. Leo.

Volunteers will be collecting frozen turkeys, nonperishable food and donations from 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at five locations in Middlesex County.

The defeat of Gov. Jon S. Corzine, in one of the bluest of blue states, has been interpreted by outsiders as a defeat for Barack Obama, and reason for Republicans nationwide to salivate at prospects in 2010.

A former Woodbridge police officer was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting a teenage boy a decade ago and taking lurid photos of a 15-year-old girl.

For Immediate Release: November 10, 2009 Contact: Lynne Richmond 633-2954 - " Timothy J. VonThun, a 17 year old South Brunswick High School student, was honored as the 2010 New Jersey Agricultural Fair Ambassador by the Agricultural Fair Association of New Jersey at their fall dinner meeting on Sunday, November 1 in Eastampton.

Former New Jersey Democratic power broker John Lynch will finish his nearly three-year sentence for corruption Friday.

A township middle school teacher has been charged with having sex with a 14-year-old female student.

NEW BRUNSWICKa 'A 60-year-old New Brunswick man was the victim of a fatal stabbing in the city on Nov.

With 99 percent of the votes counted, three Democratic incumbents defeated their Republican challengers for seats on the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders.