Middlesex County News

An unidentified male in his late 20s found dead in his New Brunswick apartment this morning was apparently the victim of a homicide, authorities said.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that divorcing couples can choose to settle child custody issues outside of court through mediation.

Health officials say three more people -- including a young child -- have died from swine flu in New Jersey.

A substitute teacher at the township Job Corps center was arrested Wednesday on charges he paid a teenage student to give him nude photos of herself, authorities said.

Middlesex County Democratic Chairman Joseph Spicuzzo congratulates his District 19 ticket: Assemblyman John Wisniewski, left, and South Amboy Mayor John T. O'Leary, in March.

An Avenel man has been indicted on the charge that he offered to perform work as a home-improvement contractor without being registered with the state.

Two members of the Bloods street gang have admitted to their roles in the drive-by killing of another gang member on Hampton Road in New Brunswick in November 2007.

An Old Bridge karate instructor faces six years in prison for having sex with his 15-year-old student.

A New Brunswick man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for possessing a half pound of marijuana in the area of the Parkside Public Housing Facility and Naaman Williams Park.

A Colonia man pleaded guilty Tuesday to killing a Perth Amboy police officer in August in an alcohol-fueled crash after he ran two red lights on Route 1 in Woodbridge.

A former Woodbridge police officer is being retried on charges that he sexually assaulted a teenage boy more than a decade ago.

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.

The trial of a New Brunswick High School special-education teacher accused of passing a phony doctor's note to school officials was called off Thursday after the man admitted to the crime.

A man who robbed a Bank of America branch in Perth Amboy in March 2008 has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Heather DeLollis was driving from a meeting from her son's elementary school in Kendall Park about three weeks ago when her cell phone rang.

Taking money from bad guys to catch more bad guys. That's how Mayor John McCormac described the $390,000 the township Police Department has received to install cameras in 35 police vehicles.

For Middlesex County officials, "green equals green" when it comes to creating economic opportunities for environmentally-friendly businesses.

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

The bullets that killed William McGuire did not come from the gun purchased by his wife, Melanie McGuire, according to a brief filed on her behalf with the Appellate Division of state Superior Court.

In North Brunswick, about 200 students called in sick at two elementary schools Monday and yesterday, district officials said.