Woodbridge News

Anuva Goel likes to read a variety of books, but she is particularly found of the Magic Treehouse series.

Prosecutors say a New Jersey woman convicted of killing and dismembering her husband should not get a new trial.

If the voice of God sounds like Mayor John E. McCormac that's because it will be - but for five days only.

Cash, jewelry and electronics were stolen from a Freeman Street home that was reported burglarized Tuesday, police said.

Central Jersey residents will be celebrating the Fourth of July holiday in their usual style with plenty of fireworks, a parade, music, and lots of hot dogs and hamburgers.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Mark Zenobia of On Your Mark Productions will be positively blushing on July 1 when Woodbridge Township hosts its first Run for Pizza, Downtown Woodbridge 4 Mile and Pizza Extravaganza.

Imagine reading the notes you passed around in class four years later? Or figuring out if the 'Vote for Obama' T-shirt you purchased is still relevant? That's exactly why Avenel Middle School's Class of 2009 is stashing away memories in a time capsule.

The hallways of Matthew Jago Elementary School 28 in Sewaren were once painted in the type of drab white and blue colors one might use to coat a cellar wall.

The state Department of Transportation will temporarily close the ramp from Industrial Avenue and Smith Street to the Garden State Parkway southbound in Woodbridge, beginning Friday in order to paint the Conrail Bridge that goes over the ramp.

A cooking instructor at East Jersey State Prison in Avenel charged in May with having sex with an inmate and giving him a cell phone was found dead in a hotel in Newark, authorities said.

Two men face charges for allegedly arranging a drug sale with an Iselin man and then robbing him at the meeting place, police said.

A woman reported the theft of a black suitcase and a brown and cream-colored purse from her Bunns Lane residence Monday.

Recently, the Woodbridge Barron's High School Marching Band was honored with a superior rating at a band competition in Williamsburg, Va.

A Woodbridge man admitted in court this morning he was drunk in August 2008 when he ran two red lights and struck a Perth Amboy police cruiser broadside, killing one police officer and injuring another officer and the prisoner they were transporting to the Middlesex County jail.

Address of business Amid the hustle and bustle of Sewaren traffic and industry is a place called Comfort & Balance offering a bit of peace and quiet for people looking to shed extra pounds and worries.

Frances Brown, an 84-year-old resident of Fords, remembers calling the St. John's First Aid Squad four years ago.

Rep. Leonard Lance and Woodbridge Township Mayor John E. McCormac announced that the House of Representatives will soon pass legislation that includes Lance's request for $500,000 to upgrade the Woodbridge Police Department's communications capabilities.

It wasn't a coincidence that when John Moyer took over as head girls track coach at Woodbridge High School in 2006, names began to pop up on results sheets from that school for the first time since the Greater Middlesex Conference was formed in 1986 and even beyond that.

A former Woodbridge police officer has been convicted for the second time on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy more than a decade ago.

Someone stole the hubcaps from Carteret woman's car Friday while the vehicle was parked outside Woodbridge Center, police said.