TOMS RIVER, NJ–Police say they arrested a man on November 29 that intentionally burned a 6-year-old kid under his care with a cigarette lighter at a residence in Toms River.
Kareem Hayes, a 36-year-old man from New Brunswick, is behind bars at the Ocean County Jail in Toms River, according to a post on the Toms River Police Department Facebook page.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ— A raíz de la retórica política anti-inmigrante del presidente electo Donald Trump, una contra-celebración de la diversidad de los Estados Unidos -y una fuerte oposición a sus políticas- ha florecido en New Brunswick.
Las protestas para demostrar apoyo a los inmigrantes – incluyendo una que atrajo a más de mil personas el 16 de noviembre – han priorizado en gran medida los temas de inmigración después de las elecciones.
NEW BRUNSWICK NJ—A teenager is in serious condition after being struck by a vehicle in a crosswalk near his school on Wednesday, November 30 at around 2:45PM.
According to a witness at the scene, “people were gathering at 4th and 5th street as emergency services were arriving,” near the Greater Brunswick Charter School (GBCS).
HIGHLAND PARK, NJ—Middlesex County taxpayers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for artificial athletic fields made by FieldTurf, a company that knew they were faulty and defective, according to an investigative report by NJ.com.
According to a series of articles by Christopher Baxter and Matthew Stanmyre, the company knew for years that the fields they were selling were defective and deteriorating years ahead of when promised, yet continued to go ahead with the sales campaign.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The NJ Attorney General's Office isn't done with New Brunswick's embattled water utility just yet.
This time last year, the AG's Office was announcing that the city's former treatment plant operator pled guilty to public corruption, admitting that he covered up problems with the water supplied to customers in New Brunswick, Milltown, and parts of Franklin Township.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—City police are investigating a report of gunshots fired in broad daylight near Douglass campus of Rutgers University.
The incident occurred around noon on December 2 at the intersection of Jones Avenue and Seaman Street, one block from the Jameson dormitories in the Second Ward of the city.
Though New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) is investigating the alleged crime, it was Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) that notified the public about the incident.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation, the first non-governmental organization focused exclusively on autistic adults, announced a $100,000 endowment fund at Rutgers University earlier this year.
The groundbreaking fund, known as the “The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation Adult Autism Family Support Fellowship and Resource Guide Fund,” will help teach Rutgers School of Social Work graduate students to work as clinicians in order to help improve the lives of families with an autistic adult.
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