Middlesex County News

As CBS 2's Alice Gainer reported, a $2,000 reward was being offered for the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for the firebombing, as authorities try to figure out who targeted the officer and why.

Heaps of destroyed audio and visual equipment sit in the parking lot outside Thunderball Marketing, an audio and electronics company in Avenel that is still struggling to recover after Sandy caused millions of dollars in property damages.

TRENTON - Barbara Buono, the likely Democratic challenger to Gov. Chris Christie, will launch her first television ad later this month, according to a campaign source.

Buyouts of properties in flood prone areas are expected to begin within a matter of weeks, beginning in Middlesex County and working south into the summer months as residents and their respective town officials make the difficult decision to abandon entire neighborhoods for good.

ELIZABETH - Two residents have dropped assault charges against an Elizabeth police officer in connection with an incident in early March captured on a video that appeared to show the officer punch a woman outside a North Broad Street night club.

State police say a motorcyclist refused to pull over for a trooper sparking a 40-mile chase down the New Jersey Turnpike.

State Police have released the names of the 15 bikers, all from out of state, who were charged in the 40-mile chase down the N.J. Turnpike on Sunday.

WOODBRIDGE - Authorities are trying to identify a person whose body was found on the shoreline of the Raritan River today.

MONROE TOWNSHIP , MIDDLESEX COUNTY - Authorities believe someone intentionally set a fire that ripped through a township home early this morning.

Police released grainy black-and-white photos of the April 3 robbery at Wells Fargo on Union Avenue in Middlesex Borough.

Pancreatic cancer claims about as many lives each year as breast cancer, while grappling with a much lower survival rate.

New Jersey voters have agreed 13 times to allow the state to borrow money to buy land for preservation.

With its imposing, Victorian-era buildings and leafy, college-like campus, the Vineland Developmental Center was in its time a state-of-the-art institution for treating young women with complex mental and emotional disorders.

Keith Bell, 21, of Woodbridge has been indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury on charges he sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl and posted photos of her on the Internet.

On the job hunt and looking for work close to home? The following job listings have recently been posted for positions in Middlesex County.

Barbara Buono makes a statement at Rutgers-New Brunswick on Wednesday regarding the firing of Rutgers mens basketball coach Mike Rice.

Buyouts of properties in flood prone areas are expected to begin within a matter of weeks, beginning in Middlesex County and working south into the summer months as residents and their respective town officials make the difficult decision to abandon entire neighborhoods for good.

It's time to start dreaming about locally grown vegetables, as the weather warms up and sun shines down on Middlesex County.

The advisory committee for Bergen County 's Open Space Trust Fund wants the Freeholder Board to double the tax for open-space projects, saying the nearly $4.7 million the fund generates is not enough for the work that needs to be done.

EDISON - The message from Joann La Perla-Morales, the president of Middlesex County College, was clear: No matter where they started, the scores of soon-to-be graduates who were seated before her ended up in the same place.