Piscataway News

No. 7 Piscataway is headed for No. 2 Phillipsburg Friday night in a North 2 Group IV quarterfinal.

Amanda Patikowski-Quinn knows it's not easy being a Disney character. In her early 20s, she worked at Disney World in Florida - a job she took just two weeks after graduating Montclair State University with a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance.

NEW BRUNSWICK a ' On Monday, a Plainfield man was arraigned on charges in Sundaya TMs fatal shooing of a Rahway man outside a Piscataway bowling alley.

Culinary historian Judith Krall Rusoo will present 'The Holiday Cranberry' from 2 to 4 p.m Saturday at the newly restored Metlar-Bodine House Museum in Piscataway.

A state appellate court has upheld the convictions of two city men on manslaughter charges in connection with the shooting death of a Piscataway teenager following a 2004 car accident on Plainfield Avenue.

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.

Police have reopened a portion of Stelton Road that had been closed because of repairs to a natural-gas line.

A 26-year-old man was shot and killed outside a bowling alley early this morning, and police later arrested a suspect, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office said.

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.

An overnight break in a gas main line near International Avenue in the township has closed Stelton Road between New Durham to Ethel roads while repairs are made by PSE&G. Police Capt.

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Firefighters were able to make quick work of a blaze that broke out at a borough residence on Tuesday, but the smoke and flames temporarily have left a family without the place they call home.

Vandals spray painted three cars vehicles on Ninth Street some time late Saturday or early Sunday, police said.

The Rutgers Center for Innovative Ventures of Emerging Technologies , together with RFID TagSource, announce the launch of the Rutgers University RFID Research Center located on the Busch Campus in Piscataway, New Jersey.

Neighbors of the Muslim Center of Middlesex County only can hope their streets don't become as crammed with vehicles as the hallway outside the Township Council chambers was filled with people Thursday night.

The township Board of Adjustment considered issues of parking and attendance figures while entertaining an application by The Muslim Center of Middlesex County to expand its facility Thursday night.

Rutgers University officials will cut the ribbon at the school's new, high-tech Visitors Center here tonight.

A pharmacist from Piscataway was charged Monday with filing bogus claims to insurance companies and pocketing at least $237,000, authorities said.

A man accused of trying to hire a hit man to beat, tie up and pour gasoline on his girlfriend's husband in a scheme to spirit the girlfriend's children to Spain is being sought by authorities.

Four township women are trying to aid one of the area's leading suppliers of food to the needy by holding a fundraiser for the charity.