MONROE, NJ—At about 10am on August 10, a 2-year-old developmentally disabled girl was found in the shoulder of a busy road by a "good samaritan," according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (MCPO).
She had apparently wandered away from the Remsterville Learning Center, located on Prospect Plains Road in Monroe.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–Roughly 70 high school students – from New Brunswick, Newark, Paterson, Passaic, Rahway and Trenton – took part in Rutgers’ 8th Annual 4-H Summer Science Program in July.
Students, three of which were from New Brunswick, had the chance to participate in hands-on activities at Rutgers New Brunswick’s Cook Student Center exploring a variety of subjects such as food science, marine and environmental sciences, and horticultural engineering.
EDISON, NJ—Emile Constable Jr., a 25-year-old resident of Edison was indicted by a grand jury sitting in New Brunswick for his role in distributing heroin that killed another man, according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors say that the man sold 10 one-gram bags of heroin to the dead man, identified as 23-year-old Edison resident Aniq Ali in the first of two press releases issued by the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (MCPO) on the subject.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ–A charity fighting to curtail the rise of dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria in milk and meat products served at all McDonald’s restaurants, announced a crowdsourcing campaign on August 4.
The charity, UK-based ShareAction, has a vision: all corporate investments should be socially responsible.
It's launched an online movement making it easy for people to email McDonald's Corp. CEO Steve Easterbrook and urge him to stop the regular use of antibiotics in the company’s global livestock supply chains.
UPDATE (8/19): New Brunswick Today has learned the identity of the deceased man, James M. Wittkopp. The MCPO did not respond to our request to confirm this.
SPOTSWOOD, NJ—The Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office (MCPO) announced that a man "sustained major burns in a car fire" on August 8.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—In his 2000 book "The Tipping Point," author Malcolm Gladwell summarized the characteristics of "tipping points" as being contagious and involving a large change that results from small changes and occurs quickly.
However, scientists at Rutgers University and Harvard University do not fully agree with that definition and attempted to clarify the terminology in a study published on July 11 by Earth's Future.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ-– Después de menos de 17 meses en funcionamiento, la Junta de Acción Puertorriqueña (PRAB) cerrará el centro de cuidado de niños que se abrió dentro de la Iglesia Tabernacle Baptist en George Street.
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