Plainfield News

FANWOOD - Joseph Calderone, 50, of South Plainfield was charged with driving while intoxicated after an officer stopped the vehicle Calderone was driving in the 300 block of Midway Avenue on May 6 at 3:55 p.m. for a violation, police said.

Sandra Hockridge, who will retire after 26 years as Watchung Hills Regional High School's Adult School director/administrator, has compared her position to that of an artist who is faced with a huge, blank canvas that has to be filled in with all kinds of themes, colors, motifs.

It was just something Wawa employees expected every day. Anthony Verdicchio would come in every day, buy a small cup of coffee and a plain donut, and spend some time "chit chatting." Then, the 76-year-old Plainfield native would head over to the News Stand and volunteer, selling newspapers.

Police say a man posing as a utility worker is wanted for 18 burglaries in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

NORTH PLAINFIELD - Two school bus drivers have accused their union representative of being a "bully and a male chauvinist" and the school board of taking away their seniority perks and freezing their wages because they're women.

WATCHUNG - A Scotch Plains resident was taken into custody in Westfield at 7:55 a.m. on Thursday, May 9, and charged with shoplifting $79.76 worth of cell phones from Walmart on Route 22 earlier in the day.

NORTH PLAINFIELD - Citing "overwhelming evidence" of his guilt, a state appeals court on Wednesday upheld a resisting arrest conviction of a former North Plainfield man who fled from police in February 2010 after being suspected of having cocaine.

"You might remember me from my days as the gopher in advertising at the Bridgeton Evening News , working for my uncle, Jim Homan, back in the late '70s/early '80s. "I have been employed by MRP Structural Steel Fabricatio, in South Plainfield, as Safety & Logistics manager for the past seven years.

The Westfield Fire Department with assistance from other local crews extinguished a two-alarm fire at 714 Hanford Place on Wednesday afternoon.

May 1: A business in the 100 block of Central Avenue reported the theft of approximately $556.45 worth of Wusthof kinves between 8 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. The matter is under investigation.

A northern New Jersey dad accused of severely beating his 3-month-old son last week will now face murder charges following the child's death.

A Plainfield man has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly severely beating his 3-month-old child to death.

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Natalie Yang, 44, of Teaneck, whose car was stopped after a random license plate inquiry on April 24 because her drivers' license had been suspended, police said.

WATCHUNG - A 35-year-old North Plainfield woman was arrested on a shoplifting complaint last week after Walmart representatives told police she took various clothing items from the display racks and attempted to leave the store without paying.

Sandra Hockridge, who will retire after 26 years as Watchung Hills Regional High School 's Adult School director/administrator, has compared her position to that of an artist who is faced with a huge, blank canvas that has to be filled in with all kinds of themes, colors, motifs.

This release was received from the Fanwood Police Department. On 04/30/2013 @ 10:15 PM Officer responded to the area of the 100 block of LaGrande Ave.

By far the largest striper from shore reported to me this season was the 39-pounder weighed at the Tackle Box in Hazlet after Ben Nazario of Rahway beached it on bunker at Belford around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.

During a hearing today at the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerville, Ricco Jones, 36, of Somerville, was sentenced to 10 years for burglary and other offenses in four incidents across Somerset County.

DELAWARE TWP. - A Piscataway woman was charged with criminal simulation after she allegedly used the driver's license of a deceased woman to avoid arrest on a warrant.