South Plainfield News

A vehicle owner whose show car has been in a South Plainfield impound lot for nearly three years will have to pay plenty in order to get his wheels back, according to a recent state appeals court ruling.

Even though rocker Milan Lazistan of North Plainfield co-wrote and performed the theme song for the new MavTV show 'Body Shots,'' which features bikini-clad hosts discussing alcohol, he didn't receive a free beer nor a date with a host.

The latest stop on the long and winding tale of the South Plainfield truck route is a $1 million bond ordinance approved this week to improve the bypass route now being used by heavy trucks.

The South Plainfield Pathmark at 3600 Park Ave. celebrated its grand opening June 26.

The column by Jay Jefferson Cooke entitled 'Actions Speak Louder Than Words' got it right.

More than 60 years ago, somewhere in northwest Germany near the Rhine River, a 23-year-old U.S. troop member took a bullet in the back from a German soldier's rifle during a routine operation to seek out and capture enemy forces.

Jun 23, 2009 4:52 pm US/Eastern Reporting Cindy Hsu SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. Hundreds of high school seniors were set to graduate in South Plainfield Tuesday, but most of their teachers decided not to attend the ceremony.

There were plenty of shoppers, scores of bright yellow signs promoting specials, balloons and a disc jockey playing music.

At Animal House Pet Grooming, owner Laura Approvato only cares about one thing: keeping the animals she works with happy.

Board of Education members Wednesday defended their decision not to discuss in detail the panel's action allowing a few students accused of consuming alcohol before the senior prom to take part in Tuesday's high school graduation - a move that prompted a number of teachers to withhold their services at the ceremony.

Nearly all of South Plainfield High School's teachers will not participate in tomorrow's graduation, a week after the district's board of education reversed a decision by school administrators to ban from the ceremony a group of students who came drunk to the prom.

THEFT , 2:47 p.m. June 11: Police said they arrested Gregory Jamar, 56, of South Plainfield and charged him with shoplifting tools worth $18.95 from the Home Depot on Route 22.

A new business is preparing to open on Route 22 in the township, a welcome sight in what has been nearly a year of empty store front sightings on the heavily traveled corridor.

A robber held up a convenience store clerk at gunpoint Wednesday night and fled with $400 in cash, police said.

The annual North-South Game will be played June 29 at Kean University in Elizabeth.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office is conducting an investigation into the death of a Montclair man who died at a local hospital Wednesday night following his arrest earlier in the evening.

A New Jersey man convicted of beating and strangling his girlfriend and dumping her body at a recycling center has been given a new trial.

A state appeals court has overturned the murder conviction of a South Plainfield man accused of strangling his estranged girlfriend, ruling that the trial court erred when it allowed the defendant's former wife to testify that he threatened to kill her seven years earlier.

School districts around the county have seen a spike in the number of students who have called out sick, many reporting flu-like symptoms.

Children and teachers at a South Plainfield elementary school are doing their part in the fight against breast cancer.