UPDATE (1/7): Police confirmed the incident and identified the victim as 26-year-old German Flores-Peres, of New Brunswick. Flores-Peres was shot in the shoulder and in stable condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, police said.
"Video surveillance shows the victim being chased by a suspect who then flees the area in a dark colored vehicle. The preliminary investigation suggests the assault stems from an ongoing domestic issue amongst family members," reads the police statement.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The city's five-member City Council will meet just twice per month for most of 2015, and three times in December.
Years earlier, the Council downsized from four meetings per month, over the objections of residents.
The meetings are usually on Wednesdays and items to be voted on at each meeting are listed on the agenda, which is typically posted to the city website by the Friday before the meeting.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The enormous Brower Commons Dining Hall on College Avenue was burglarized over the New Year's holiday, according to Rutgers police.
The break-in occurred between noon on December 31, and 9:30 am on January 2, suggesting that few or no Rutgers staff were watching the building during the holiday.
It is unclear what was stolen, if anything, and there is no description of the suspects.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rumor has it that Kevin Egan, a union official with the International Brotherhood of Electric Workers Local 456, will serve as the City Council President in 2015.
Though Egan made repeated references to his becoming President of the five-member City Council in December, both he and the woman he would replace, his running mate Rebecca Escobar, would not confirm this after they were both sworn into a second term on January 2.
"We haven't even talked about that yet," said Escobar.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police are investigating an armed robbery reported at a plastic supply company on Seaman Street on the evening of January 3.
According to police radio transmissions, dispatchers received a call at about 6:40pm reporting the robbery, which involved a gun being displayed, at a business called General Plastic Supply.
Police said the robbery call had something in common with another recent incident.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Once upon a time, New Brunswick, like most other cities in the United States, boasted an extensive streetcar system.
Streetcars, also known as trams or trolleys, are powered by electricity, and run on tracks laid out across the roads themselves.
Walking through New Brunswick today, one can often see the thick, steady stream of automobiles and buses, filing through its narrow streets and clogging small and large arteries such as US Highway 1, and State Routes 18 and 27.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—City police are investigating a robbery and stabbing that occurred underneath the railroad overpass at Suydam Street shortly after 5pm on January 1.
The New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) first responded to the reports of a "man down" at the corner of Suydam Street and Joyce Kilmer Avenue, where a passerby spotted the fallen man bleeding and called authorities.
Police on the scene said the victim sufferred "very large wounds" from a stabbing in the lower back.
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