Somerset County News

Utilizing a grant from the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority the Regional Center Partnership is moving forward on a study that will define the 'Regional Center Bicycle, Pedestrian & Greenways System.' With the goal of connecting people and places within the Regional Center through alternative methods of transportations the initiative ...

Full rail service has been restored on the Gladstone Branch, after a downed tree damaged the overhead wires this morning, NJ Transit reports.

A 35-year-old township woman who was forced off the road and reportedly abducted at gunpoint Tuesday morning turned up later in the day in Bernards after an intense investigation that included police dogs and the FBI.

The Festival begins at 5:00 P.M. on Saturday, July 4, 2009, at North Branch Park on Milltown Road in Bridgewater.

All branches of the Somerset County Library System will be closed on Friday, July 3rd and Saturday, July 4th in observance of the 4th of July holiday.

Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center will present 'The County Caper,' a local version of the popular TV series, The Amazing Race.

Let's face it: Children have a lot of needs. And they can't take care of themselves, so adults have to do it for them.

Six people have died from swine flu in New Jersey, officials said. The state Health and Senior Services Department says the latest victim is a woman in her 40s from Bergen County who had underlying health conditions.

One day before the country celebrates Independence Day, the public is invited to pack a picnic lunch and help commemorate a more local anniversary in Somerville: the centennial year of the historic Somerset County Courthouse.

The Somerset County Park Commission Environmental Education Center has scheduled a series of 'Extreme Adventure' summer day trips for younger teenagers to help lure them away from video games and computers and to instead enjoy the outdoors.

A Plainfield man has been indicted on charges of burglarizing a township restaurant five times between April 17 and May 25.

The following indictments have been handed up by a Somerset County grand jury: - Alexis Acosta, 21, of Somerville, indicted on a charge of unlawful taking of a means of conveyance in Somerville on April 19.

A 20-year-old borough man was arrested June 22 on numerous drug charges in a parking lot at the corner of Mercer Street and Route 22.

Their trunks are packed and they're headed west. Kallie and Bette, the Philadelphia Zoo's two female African elephants, are moving to southern Pennsylvania.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents say they arrested 46 reputed gang members and associates as part of a statewide sweep in New Jersey.

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.

This burglar didn't plan well. A 24-year-old Edison man faces charges related to the break-in early Tuesday at a Dunellen pharmacy - a shop located across from police headquarters.

DNA test kits of the the influenza A or Swine Flu virus prepared by PrimerDesign Ltd are displayed at the company laboratory in Southampton on May 2, 2009.

Somerset County has 12 newly minted graduates, but not from a high school or university.

Sixteen Somerset County high school and college students will be awarded Van Doren scholarships for the upcoming academic year.