New Brunswick News

SAYREVILLE - Police have identified a 23-year-old Morris County woman as the pedestrian who was struck by a car and fatally injured early last week while crossing Route 35.

The first order for Graham Lustig when he took over as artistic director of the New Brunswick-based American Repertory Ballet in 1999 was to deliver a new 'Nutcracker.' It's always a good idea to start out small in a new job.

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 New Brunswick man believed to be a member of the Latin Kings street gang has been charged with selling heroin stuffed inside a teddy bear at the railroad station.

One month after a 15-year-old boy was killed trying to cross the newly rebuilt Route 18 at Commercial Avenue, family members and concerned residents came to the City Council meeting Wednesday to demand safety improvements at the site.

An Avenel man and two 17-year-old youths face robbery charges after allegedly grabbing a woman's purse as she walked on Central Avenue.

The driver whose car struck and fatally injured a city 15-year-old who was crossing Route 18 late last month has been cited for speeding, authorities said Tuesday.

Three individuals were arrested early Sunday morning after two allegedly robbed a New Brunswick woman and then fled in a car driven by the third, police said.

The number of foreign students attending New Jersey's four-year colleges rose more than 7 percent last year.

The city's historic ward referendum energized a diverse range of residents and culminated two weeks ago in a nail-biter vote and the ward question's defeat.

A grassroots political group in New Brunswick expects to ask for a recount on a failed initiative to divide the city into wards for city council elections , an attorney for the group said today.

A city man is helping to make a college education fit in the palm of one's hand.

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Residents in the city's tallest building now have a new place to play, high atop the building's parking deck.

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

It's like a blanket - but with sleeves. And this Saturday it will be the attire of choice for a pub crawl benefiting the Ronald McDonald House.

NEW BRUNSWICK a ' A South Amboy man pleaded guilty to a count of murder and four counts of attempted murder today, admitting that he fatally stabbed his live-in companion and stabbed four children, ranging in age from 7 to 12.

Police closed a section of Route 27 in southern end of the city today after a car struck a utility pole and flipped over.

Spend your hard-earned money in New Brunswick, and chances are, it will come back to you. That is the message behind New Brunswick City Market’s “Shop Local” program that launched this week. By shopping downtown, you will boost the local economy, increase neighborhood employment, and, this week only, snag a free pair of Rutgers basketball tickets.

Two city men were arrested after they swapped cocaine for a pair of jeans in a drug deal at Lee Avenue and Seaman Street, police said.