Charlie is the founder and editor of New Brunswick Today, and the winner of the Awbrey Award for Community-Oriented Local Journalism. He is a proud Rutgers University journalism graduate, a community organizer, and a former independent candidate for mayor of New Brunswick.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Authorities announced today that Raheem Fuqua, a 30-year-old city resident died this morning from gunshot wounds sufferred Saturday afternoon on Seaman Street.
Fuqua was in critical condition at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, the same building where he was hospitalized after being shot three times in October 2012.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Tomorrow at 4pm, a deadline to run in the city's third-ever school board election will pass and so far only one candidate has announced they are running.
Due to a unique situation created by New Brunswick's switch to an elected school board, Diana Fajardo was elected last year in a landslide, but secured only a one-year term. Typically, terms on the board last three years.
MILLTOWN, NJ—Boro officials may not being trying very hard to get the word out, but representatives of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will be present at a meeting in Milltown's Boro Hall to address serious violations committed by the New Brunswick Water Utility.
UPDATE (7:50pm): This article was updated to include information from police radio transmissions.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police are investigating a shooting that took place around 3:24pm today on Seaman Street between Joyce Kilmer and Railroad Avenues in the city's Fourth Ward.
According to police on scene, there were two people injured, one of them seriously. Both have been taken to an area hospital.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University's administration has been extraordinarily quiet about the recent killing of a former student just blocks from campus, while a spokesman for New Brunswick police falsely claimed that Rutgers had alerted "all of their students" of the incident.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—As rumors spread that New Brunswick's new downtown supermarket will close its doors for good in a matter of weeks, the market's landlord today filed a court notice saying the store is already far behind on its rent payments.
Officials at the New Brunswick Parking Authority, the owner of the building, confirmed late this evening that the supermarket owes $784,754, the equivalent of nine months, in back rent. The store has been open for business for just over fifteen months.
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—As the community copes with a tragic murder just blocks from the Rutgers campus, a lawsuit has been filed by the editor of this newspaper seeking official police maps that show how the city's two major police departments divide responsibility for public safety.
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