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JCC Fitness and Wellness Instructor Elizabeth Miller to be Featured in Upcoming Dove Product Ad By JCC of Central New Jersey 11/21/2009 Elizabeth Miller, member of and fitness instructor at the JCC of Central New Jersey in Scotch Plains, is featured in a Dove ad in this December's issue of Women's Health Magazine.

Student Campus Ministers at Benedictine Academy in Elizabeth are making a difference in the lives of city youngsters.

Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth has agreed with the federal government to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the hospital of defrauding Medicare, authorities said today.

An exhibit featuring art portraying Plainfield's people, architecture and culture will be on display through Dec.

EAST BRANCH A New Jersey truck driver was in Wilson Regional Medical Center in Johnson City on Tuesday after someone attempted to rob him at a Route 17 rest area.

Hundreds of imported vehicles are parked in a storage lot after being unloaded from freight ships in Elizabeth, N.J. The U.S. trade deficit widened more than expected in September as foreign oil prices rose to the highest level in nearly a year, swamping a fifth consecutive gain in exports.

It's Dave Tango's turn to lead the hunt. Tango, a 24-year old native of Linden, is set to star on the new 'Ghost Hunters Academy' television show, which debuts 10 p.m. Wednesday on the SyFy channel.

Plainfield Artist Lydia R. Watson Featured at the Pearl St. Gallery in Elizabeth By County of Union 11/11/2009 The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders is pleased to announce an exhibit by multimedia artist Lydia R. Watson of Plainfield in the gallery space at the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, 633 Pearl Street in ...

DOVER - A 64-year-old North Carolina man who suffered an apparent heart attack behind the wheel died after crashing his van into a Route 46 auto repair shop early Saturday morning, authorities said.

A Superior Court judge today continued the $1 million bail against a man who was arrested for allegedly running a drug sale operation that catered to Newark's North Ward, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said.

MILLVILLE - Raymond Feliciano, 36, of the 300 block of Smith Street was arrested Wednesday on charges of criminal mischief and simple assault for an alleged incident on the 300 block of West Powell Street.

Unveiling of Mobile Clinic in Elizabeth Increases Healthcare Accessibility to Kids By Children's Health Fund 11/6/2009 To make healthcare more accessible to children in Elizabeth, New Jersey, the Schering-Plough Foundation has given $250,000 to the Foundation of the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey in support of the New Jersey ...

A banker from Clark was sentenced in federal court today to six years and four months in prison for orchestrating a $2.5-million investment scam that targeted members of a Portuguese social club he ran in Elizabeth.

Chris Daggett walks along Broad St. in Elizabeth Monday morning looking to talk to voters.

" An Elizabeth man pleaded guilty Friday for his role in a $2 million stolen prescription drug scheme, Attorney General Anne Milgram and Division of Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni announced.

New Vote-By-Mail Process a Success in Governor's Election By Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey 10/30/2009 The Honorable Brett Radi, the Somerset County Clerk and Section Chief of the Clerk's Section of the Constitutional Officers Association of New Jersey announced: "Statewide over 170,000 voters are voting at home under the new ...

Here are some winter memories from William Frolich: a oeNone of us have actual memories of the famous blizzard of 1888, but we have heard of it from our grandparents.

The mother of a Garwood woman whose emaciated body was found clothed in trash bags pleaded guilty to neglect this morning in Superior Court in Elizabeth, authorities said.

Many of the headstones marking the graves in New Jersey's oldest cemetery are no longer readable, not only because they're worn, but because they're partially underground.

Share + Oct 27, 2009 2:45 pm US/Eastern ELIZABETH, N.J. Officials say a carjacking suspect died after the vehicle he was driving slammed into another while being pursued by police in Elizabeth.