Somerset County News

A Bound Brook restaurateur and his brother will be on trial early next year on charges of tax evasion, five years after investigators accused the owner of Cafe Imperial of failing to pay $100,000 in taxes and attempting to cover it up, a judge decided today.

A Somerset County man who insists he was growing marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of multiple sclerosis rejected the state Attorney General's final plea offer today.

Somerset County initially wanted an order of 30,000 doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine to serve the towns that use it for health department services.

More than 20 athletic facilities around Somerset County will benefit from a total of $240,000 in grants awarded recently by the Board of Freeholders.

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A 34-year-old borough man has been charged with stabbing his roommate at their Anderson Hill Road residence Saturday afternoon.

A little heaven on Earth will come to the Fiddler's Elbow Country Club through the 2009 Arc Angel Gala Reception.

Sixth-grade students Michael Fischer and Zachary Hansen darted around Room 308 at Eisenhower Intermediate School Wednesday plugging in appliances to a meter that measured their energy usage.

A dozen people were arrested and five police officers injured following a series of fights that broke out during the annual Franklin High School Homecoming Dance Friday night at the school on Elizabeth Avenue, authorities said.

As he gets ready to go to trial for growing marijuana in back of his rented Franklin, Somerset County, home, John Ray Wilson has garnered some influential support.

One of New Jersey's prominent black ministers has asked the U.S. Justice Department to examine a fight that broke out at a central Jersey high school dance.

The Somerset County Prosecutor's Office announced today that new leads have been developed in the beating death of a 16-year-old Franklin Township girl nearly three decades ago.

Any way you care to look at it, New Jersey still leads the nation in property taxes.

At a traffic light in a rural spot or in the middle of a night, the waiting is always the hardest part.

Effective Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, small businesses in Somerset County will be allowed to drop off materials at the Somerset County Recycling Center, located at 40 Polhemus Lane in Bridgewater, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., Monday through Friday.

It is a legal case that doesn't want to die, though one of the major parties has been dead for more than a decade.

A pair of New Jersey lawmakers are asking Gov. Jon Corzine to pardon a Somerset County man who is facing trial for growing marijuana to alleviate the symptoms of multiple sclerosis .

Trenton could use a dose of good old-fashioned Hunterdon County governing. Hunterdon's freeholders have a well-earned reputation for fiscal frugality.

Kim Guadagno, Monmouth County Sheriff, who is running for Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, visited students in Law & Public Safety, Culinary Arts and Cosmetology at Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School on Friday, October 16th.

Halloween is Saturday, but children can get in the spirit of the holiday during the several days leading up to trick-or-treating time.