WOODBRIDGE, NJ–Wegmans has recalled more than 12,000 packages of its own 12-ounce "Organic Food You Feel Good About Just Picked Frozen Spinach" (UPC 77890-32932), due to possible listeria contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced.
The product was sold in the frozen food department of the company’s 85 stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, and Massachusetts between January 27 and March 21.
UPDATE: Rutgers University Police Department issued an email crime alert for the incident at 4:32pm, and a Nixle emergency alert at 5:20pm.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—City police and their counterparts from Rutgers University responded to a home invasion robbery reported to have occurred on Robinson Street in the student-dominated Sixth Ward.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Plans for a new four-story apartment building on a lively block of Easton Avenue was approved unanimously by the city's Planning Board on February 26.
The structure would replace two-story mixed-use buildings that housed popular businesses before they were destroyed by a four-alarm inferno on March 3, 2004.
Three years after the fire, David Abisleiman, of the family that runs Evelyn's Lebanese restaurant at 45 Easton Avenue, bought the property for a dollar from other family members.
Proceeds From Event Featuring Asim Azhar to Support Thaakat’s “Love Over Violence Everywhere” Campaign
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Two people were injured in a shooting that took place Sunday afternoon, on a dead-end block about 1,000 feet from New Brunswick High School in a Fourth Ward neighborhood.
Anthony Brown, a 22-year-old from New Brunswick, was shot in the hand and the buttocks, and a 17-year-old male juvenile was shot once in the chest, according to police.
Both victims walked in to the emergency room at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital after being dropped off in privately-owned vehicles.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–For the sixth year in a row, the city's Environmental Commission, and Recylcing Coordinator Donna Caputo are teaming up to organize neighborhoods to fight litter.
The commission announced its plans to continue the Clean City Block Captains program at their February meeting.
The Block Captains program, which was founded in 2010, organizes residents to be “city block captains," volunteers who organize and educate their neighbors about the litter problem and participate in multiple monthly cleanups.
UPDATE (3/27): Police announced the arrest of 19-year-old city resident Romeo Salas on charges with Attempted Murder, Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose and Unlawful Possession of a Weapon.
Romeo Salas was the suspect in a stabbing incident at a Suydam Street house party on March 22 at approximately 12:15am.
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