OLD BRIDGE, NJ–The newer of the two Walmarts in Old Bridge closed for at least 10 hours over the weekend of May 16-17 due to nine car batteries that were apparently damaged after falling off a shelf in the automotive department.
“There was a battery leak at which point the fire department was called. They recommended that we evacuate the store while our hazardous waste team came in for clean-up, which we did,” Aaron Mullins, a Walmart Spokesperson, told New Brunswick Today.
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NEWARK, NJ—Grace Stewart, a police officer assigned to the Newark campus of Rutgers University, has been criminally charged with stealing $30,000 from the union that represents officers.
But the university has remained silent about her current status as an employee and a law enforcement officer despite repeated inquiries.
"She has been charged with theft of 30,000 dollars from the PBA," said Katherine Carter, spokesperson for the Essex County Prosectuor's Office.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The company hired by Mayor James Cahill to perform critical functions for the city's embattled Water Utility has accepted blame for the latest violations committed by the agency, according to a memo from his Business Administrator.
As we reported, the city did not properly treat water on ten different days in December 2014, and one day in January 2015.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–Rutgers University has sparked a controversy by asking the Associate Alumnae of Douglass College (AADC), which maintains relationships with the alumnae of the historic women's college, to transition to a university-chartered alumnae organization.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–In two lawsuits alleging that Johnson & Johnson’s antipsychotic drug Risperdal caused boys to grow female breasts, a biochemist for the company testified that the Food Drug Administration (FDA) was never given an internal analysis showing a link between the two.
Ivo Caers, a VP of Neuroscience Development at Janseen Research & Development, has been employed with J&J for the past 36 years.
NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ—Mayor Mac Womack confirmed that a suspended Township employee who was charged with distributing drugs on the job can return to work as soon as he recovers from a "non-work-related" injury.
Michael Vitanza has worked as a laborer with the Township of North Brunswick's Department of Public Works until his December 2013 arrest in a State Police operation that took down a major drug and gun sales network.
Authorities said he was caught purchasing drugs while he was on the job.
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