NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Less than a week after Gov. Chris Christie agreed to call the state's top law enforcement official about a brewing police jurisdiction controversy in New Brunswick, both police departments announced a new and unprecedented collaboration.
Yesterday morning, the New Brunswick Police Department issued a press release announcing that city police would host an unspecified number of Rutgers University police officers at their regular muster sessions.
NEWARK, NJ–A tragic auto accident on the night of Friday, March 21 on the New Jersey Turnpike left one Rutgers student dead and another injured.
Santa Pumpura, a 21-year-old student studying finance at the Rutgers Business School, was killed in the accident.
According to police, the students were struck by a 2011 Dodge Caravan that swerved into the shoulder while they were inspecting their own flat tire on the side of the road.
FRANKLIN, NJ—Yesterday at 5:03am, Township police responded to a strange car accident where a running UHaul truck was left behind after smashing into a dollar store on Route 27.
Police responded because of an activated burglar alarm at the Family Dollar, located just across the border from New Brunswick near the intersection with Terminal Road.
"Upon arrival they found a Uhaul Truck had struck and gone through the front glass," said police spokesman Sgt. Phil Rizzo.
SOUTH RIVER, NJ—A contingent of more than a dozen activists, including many Rutgers students on Spring Break, confronted Governor Chris Christie about an issue that hasn't been addressed at any of his 2014 Town Halls.
The protestors went after the Governor's administration for approving $4.8 million in Hurricane Sandy disaster relief funding to help build Somerset Mews, a luxury apartment building in New Brunswick that was approved long before Sandy struck.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—McKinney Properties, the Pittsburgh-based company that recently purchased the city's only downtown dormitory, is aggressively renting out the building for the next school year.
Previously, Rutgers University filled the building with its students through a housing lottery, under the building's developer and original owner.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—A letter sent home yesterdays with students at the McKinley Elementary School told parents and guardians that "children were experiencing upset stomachs in the cafeteria during the final lunch period" on Thursday March 20.
The finding quickly launched an investigation by the Middlesex County Health Department, which appears to have concluded.
Earlier this afternoon, the Health Department issued a statement saying the investigation did not turn any evidence of foodborne illness.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—For one night only, a radio play adaptation of "Moby Dick" will be peformed on stage by Raconteur Radio, a theater group formed out of a former bookstore in Metuchen.
The performance starts at 8pm on Saturday March 22 at Crossroads Theatre, located at 7 Livingston Ave.
Made possible by the arts and culture non-profit coLAB, this 55-minute staged radio drama is an adaptation of the original 700-page book written by Herman Melville.
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