NEW YORK, NY—On November 30, the dean of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School (NJMS) was honored on November 30 by the American Friends of Phelophepa Train (AFTP), a charity that raises money to provide healthcare in rural South Africa using medical trains.
Dean Robert L. Johnson is a 1968 graduate of Alfred University in New York, and received his MD from NJMS in 1972.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Three robberies in the early morning hours of December 12 were the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth incidents to generate Rutgers University crime alerts this semester.
The robberies occurred in a two-hour span between 1:10am and 3:10am, and one of the incidents left two men injured.
All three incidents occurred near Rutgers' College Avenue campus or its Cook/Douglass campuses in New Brunswick, which are located on opposite ends of the city's downtown.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—City officials confirmed that a firefighter suspended after being hit with criminal charges is the second to be suspended from the New Brunswick Fire Department (NBFD) this year.
Dell Walker was suspended without pay on November 23, according to Business Adminstrator Thomas Loughlin III.
The suspension came three days after the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (MCPO) announced criminal charges against Walker, a 19-year veteran of the department, for collecting disability payments at the same time he was working.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–The Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) is investigating a violent robbery on the Cook campus in the Second Ward, where a man affiliated with the school was injured.
On December 10, at approximately 7:00 PM, the victim was walking "behind the greenhouses" located off of Dudley Road behind parking lot 98A when he encountered several men.
The men "demanded items of value" from the victim, according to the crime alert issued less than two hours later.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police are investigating a "suspicious incident" where a woman was nearly abducted at about 2:30am on December 5, near the intersection of Courtlandt and Duke Streets.
According to a Rutgers crime alert issued nearly four days after the incident occured, a female who is affiliated with the university was almost pushed into a vehicle she had declined to get into.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—On July 13, a chemical company opened its new industrial facility which packages calcium chloride for salting the roads in the wintertime.
Occidental Petroleum Company subsidiary CalChlor is renting the warehouse at 760 Jersey Avenue, a recently-renovated contaminated site that was once home to car battery plant.
Situated along the Northeast Corridor railroad tracks, not far from the Jersey Avenue train station, the facility recieves calcium chloride and packages it into plastic bags.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A 23-year-old woman from Lawrenceville became the latest person to end their life in an apparent suicide by jumping from a public parking deck on December 1.
Police told other media outlets they were investigating the incident shortly after it occurred at 2:52pm at the Plum Street parking garage.
The victim landed on the Prospect Street sidewalk, and was still breathing when she was found, according to police radio transmissions.
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