NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Darryll Underwood has been charged with gun crimes for the second time this month, according to a release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.
Police determined that Underwood targeted a 28-year-old Raheem Fuqua, shooting him and killing a 21-year-old mother in front of the city's Progressive Masonic Temple on Hale Street shortly after 2am on October 6.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Voters just might have made history in the Hub City, where the results of a hotly-contested ballot question remain too close to call a full day after the polls closed.
The question would give the city's voters the opportunity to select the city's school board for the first time in history, a power currently reserved for the mayor.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—New Brunswick Today is proud to endorse the grassroots campaign for an elected school board in New Brunswick, which is asking people to vote "YES" on "MUNICIPAL QUESTION – SCHOOL BOARD QUESTION" in today's election.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Political figures, the Rutgers administration, and students leaders are in agreement about one thing this election: New Jersey voters should support increased investment in our public colleges by voting "Yes" on State Public Question #1 today.
New Brunswick Today is proud to join them with our wholehearted endorsement of the ballot question, an initiative sure to benefit the larger cause of education as well as the local economy in New Brunswick.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Dale Caldwell is the Chairman of a political committee that has spent big money to achieve one goal: to ensure New Brunswick does not have popular elections for the city school board, a body he has served on since 1999.
The committee's argument is that appointed school boards are less political than elected ones. However, their case may have been hurt after a controversy involving Caldwell in the state's capital city.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Hurricane Sandy's devastating impact on New Jersey will affect the election right here in New Brunswick, where the city has decided to downsize from fourteen polling places to thirteen.
Residents of Tov Manor, Dewey Heights, University Mews, Cobb Road, and Rutgers University's Henderson and Gibbons dormitories normally vote at the University's Labor Education Center.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The first campaign finance report filed by a mysterious political committee advocating against electing the city's school board has revealed their primary source of funding is Mayor James Cahill, who currently has the power to appoint the board members.
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