NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—On March 4, nearly a year after Brian Clements ran over a 52-year-old pedestrian while driving drunk, the Manalapan motorist was sentenced to serve up to 13 years in a New Jersey state prison.
Clements pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and fleeing the scene of a fatality, after striking and killing Silvia Reyes-Ramos, a city resident and mother of four children.
At the time of her accident, her only son was nine years old and her daughters were age 36, 29, and 18.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The weather may have been chilly yesterday morning at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new A. Chester Redshaw Elementary School, but the excited smiles on the faces of the students there were enough to melt anyone’s heart.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Benjamin Caturano, a 22-year-old New Brunswick resident, has been arrested, along with three other people. They were charged with participating in a conspiracy to purchase and distribute roughly two kilograms of one of the controlled substances commonly known as “bath salts.”
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A "drug deal gone bad" scenario unfolded Monday night inside a commercial building on Bayard Street that left two suspects at large and one man shot, according to city police.
The unidentified 22-year-old victim was shot in the leg shortly after 8 p.m.
At 8:09 p.m., a police unit was dispatched in response to the shooting. Within minutes, all available units were on their way to the 93-year-old office building.
NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ—Andrew Gottfried, a 19-year-old Rutgers University freshman, died in his room at Perry Hall on the Cook campus, according to Rutgers spokesman Steve Manas.
Gottfried's body was discovered shortly after 9am on March 15, the final day of classes before a week-long break in the semester was scheduled to begin. Paramedics and police who were called to the scene attempted to revive Gottfried unsuccessfully.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Last month, the American Nurses Association gave Robert Wood Johnson’s nursing staff the 2012 Outstanding Nursing Quality Award for the second consecutive year, according to a report in the Home News Tribune.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Four years to the day after a violent shootout in the Sixth Ward, the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office announced that the three men who survived plead guilty to armed robbery and attempted murder.
On March 12, 2009, four men fleeing a bank robbery headed into New Brunswick where city police officers joined in the pursuit.
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