Piscataway News Archives

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.

THEFT, Oct. 13. A thief smashed the driver's side window of a Kia Sportage on West Seventh Street and removed a GPS unit between Oct.

In his time at the pulpit, the Rev. Linwood D. Rouse has seen his share of peaks and valleys.

The Raritan River was a major factor in the economy of Central Jersey in the colonial era, and for the native Americans beforehand.

Address of business: Like many of the trades, Lionel Bannister learned his craft, which is engraving, from his father.

Gov. Jon Corzine is expected today to issue a statewide "fitness challenge" to kids ages six to 17 to exercise more and make healthier food choices, according to a statement from the governor's office.

It would be a mistake to think of the New Jersey Independent South Asian Cinefest , to be held Oct.

They're gonna fly now. A group of Monarch butterflies is ready to take wing from the confines of a township elementary school, where pupils have been observing their development from larvae, culminating a 3 *-week exercise mixing elements of math, science and geography.

Politicians have been called fat cats before, but now there are accusations that Governor Jon Corzine is focusing on Chris Christie's weight in his new campaign ads.

When about 15 men on motorcycles wearing "colors" or leather vests arrived at St.