Piscataway News

ROSELLE PARK - Cameron D. Hackett, 20, was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance without a valid prescription and possession of drug paraphernalia at approximately 12:15 a.m. on May 16.

From czarist times to the days of perestroika, the Russian Academy of Sciences was the pillar of the nation's scholarship, boasting the country's best scientists as members.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers Athletics will host numerous group theme nights throughout the 2013 football season at High Point Solutions Stadium.

In 2014, the Hillsborough High School graduation may not be in Hillsborough. Instead, commencement may be 24 miles away in Trenton at the Sun National Bank Arena.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers wrestling's Greg Zannetti and Billy Smith have each been named to the National Wrestling Coaches Association's Individual All-Academic Team for the 2012-13 season, it was announced Monday.

Thomas D. Willeford explains, as he and his companion unhook a gleaming metal contraption from his arm, that some people call him the Tony Stark of Steampunk.

PISCATAWAY - With the graduates cloaked in plastic ponchos and the spectators hunched under a sea of umbrellas, Rutgers University officially conferred 14,302 degrees today to the largest class in the school's 247-year history.

WATCHUNG - A random plate inquiry about 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, on Route 22 west, led to a summons for the driver and an arrest for the passenger.

Rutgers' 247th universitywide Commencement will begin rain or shine at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 19, at High Point Solutions Stadium on the Busch Campus in Piscataway.

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Putnam County officials respond to the scene where several acetylene cylinders exploded at the Airgas facility in Black Betsy, W.Va. The unanimous decision was followed by a loud applause from community members.

It defies easy categorization. But here is a valiant attempt at summing up the science fiction subgenre in one sentence: Steampunk is the lovechild of Charles Dickens, Jules Verne and Frederic Remington, dressed in leather, fake mustaches and aviator goggles, carrying futuristic weapons with 19th-century twists, all while re-enacting time-traveling ... (more)

Circle Players of Piscataway will present "The 39 Steps ," a melodrama, written by Patrick Barlow, and adapted from a 1915 novel by John Buchan, and the 1935 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

In just this past month, it has been my pleasure to attend nine ribbon cuttings or groundbreakings for companies that are committed to doing business in New Jersey as a home for economic growth.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers softball senior Kaci Madden has been chosen as the female winner of the American Eagle Outfitters Michael Tranghese Postgraduate Leadership Award, the BIG EAST announced Thursday.

Got Work? New Deal/WPA in New Jersey is the newest exhibit at the Middlesex County Museum located inside the County's Historic Cornelius Low House at 1225 River Road in Piscataway.

In front of a black background bearing Rutgers' scarlet "R" logo, Julie Hermann was introduced as leader of the school's athletic department this afternoon in what the school called a "historic day." At the press conference, held in Piscataway at the Rutgers Visitor's Center, the former Louisville senior associate athletic director said the ... (more)

PISCATAWAY, N.J. Rutgers University re-instated men's lacrosse coach Brian Brecht effective Tuesday, May 14 after having suspended him on April 19 with pay, following allegations of verbal abuse.

Prime numbers just got less lonely. A proof announced this week claims to show that the number of primes with a near-neighbour that is also a prime number is infinite - although the "near-neighbour" primes may in fact be up to 70 million numbers away.