New Brunswick News

One can't say the Rev. Herman Thompson isn't excited about the eighth anniversary celebration for his New Brunswick All-Stars singing group.

Residents will have to wait until this afternoon to know the final tally of the city's ward vote, but they now know roughly how many votes will be counted.

A New Brunswick grassroots political group led by college students and recent graduates pulled off the most serious threat to New Brunswick's city hall in decades, all on a shoe-string budget, according to preliminary campaign financing reports.

NEW BRUNSWICKa 'Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced today that a New Brunswick man is facing 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge of attempting to commit an aggravated sexual assault upon a 20-year-old woman.

Residents will likely learn the result of Tuesday's ward vote sometime Friday evening, according to a county election official.

It will likely be Friday evening before residents will know the final tally from Tuesday's vote on the city's ward referendum.

Police are investigating an attack on a Whippany Park High School graduate who was beaten outside his apartment near Rutgers University on Sunday.

A search is under way for a second suspect in the fatal Oct. 23 shooting of a New Brunswick man on a city street.

Colleges respond as more students seek help for problems small or serious. By Susan Snyder Mental-health counselors at La Salle University were feeling overwhelmed, their appointment books packed with students in need of help, seemingly more so than ever.

Standing silently in Superior Court in New Brunswick today with handcuffs on his wrists, Tywan Cobb was arraignment on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of weapon for unlawful purpose.

A New Jersey lawmaker has fired a staff aide after police found $700,000 in cash and two handguns in a storage locker he allegedly rented under a false name.

The man found dead in a car parked on a residential New Brunswick street was a homicide victim killed with a gun, authorities said.

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - One New Jersey county now plans to conduct sobriety checkpoints year-round, thanks to a $43,000 state grant.

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.

Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love. That would be New Brunswick, at least this Saturday at the Old Bay Restaurant as Wupa's Halloween show is set to be a brothers-themed extravaganza.

New Jersey's employment won't return to its pre-recession level until 2016, three years after the nation passes its previous employment peak, a Rutgers University economist said Thursday.

Feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem was the keynote speaker at a fund-raiser that celebrated Women Aware's 30th anniversary at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick Wednesday night.

An illegal immigrant from Mexico was charged today by a Middlesex County grand jury with stabbing and beating his New Brunswick roommate to death in July.

A 33-year-old New Brunswick man was indicted today on charges he beat his 88-year-old neighbor to death in August.

NJ CENTER FOR BOOK HONORS WALT WHITMAN HOUSE IN NOV. 6 EVENT Bestows Literary Landmark status on poet's Camden home CAMDEN - One of Camden's most famous residents, the celebrated poet Walt Whitman, resided for the last eight years of his life at 328 Mickle Street, a modest, two story house he purchased with the proceeds from his landmark ...