TOP LOCAL News
By CHUCK O'DONNELL
August 10, 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK – A man was treated at a local hospital for a foot injury after being struck by a train just west of the Jersey Avenue Station on Friday night. Northeast Corridor train 3875, which departed New York Penn Station at 6:47 p.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Trenton at 8:24 p.m., ...
ELIZABETH, NJ - Distinguished Pizzaiolo, Al Santillo, owner of iconic Santillo’s Brick Oven Pizza in Elizabeth is teaming up with celebrity Dave Portnoy to help rebuild his century-old pizzeria that was severely damaged in a fire this past January. The founder of Barstool Sports,aka “El ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ -- Former Piscataway High School wrestling coach and teacher at Sayreville Middle School teacher, John Denuto, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for sexually abusing minors after admitting to inappropriate sexual misconduct with two victims, according to multiple ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - Music has always been Harry Romero’s go to and, over the past 30 years, the South Plainfield native has made a name for himself in the underground house music scene. “As a Latin kid growing up in the tri-state area, music was par for the course. There was always music ...
EDISON, NJ - A kosher food company located in Edison Township has recalled a line of frozen desserts as they may contain traces of milk, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Yummy Foods has recalled their line of Yummy Swirly Ices, commonly found in the freezer aisle, at independent ...
EDISON, NJ - The township has declared the Evergreen Meadows Apartment Complex as an imminent hazard, as two ceilings have collapsed in the span of one week. Approximately 280 apartment units have been ordered to evacuate. The township says they are working to make hotel accommodation for those who ...
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ -- The crowd came to watch history at Union Catholic's watch party for alumna Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone at Stage House Tavern in Mountainside, and the GOAT delivered a dominating performance at the Paris Olympics in the 400M hurdles on Thursday, August 8. She became the first ...
UPDATE: This person has been located, New Brunswick Police have announced. NEW BRUNSWICK – The New Brunswick Police Department has issued a missing person alert for a 29-year-old man who was last seen in and around George Street on Saturday, Aug. 3. Thomas Lotito is described as white, ...
JERSEY CITY, NJ- A goat went missing in Jersey City and four returned! The Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery, located at 435 Newark Avenue, is host to a few goats that are brought in from a local farm to eat the overgrown brush that covers gravestones. However, one of the goats ...
PHILLIPSBURG, NJ - Local social media is buzzing over a graffiti image featuring the words “Hawk Tuah” along the Delaware River in Phillipsburg. Approximately one week ago, an unidentified source vandalized private property at the riverfront with a shout-out to Hailey Welch, better known as the ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Ads for Back-to-School Sales are already underway, and the Piscataway Township School academic year will begin on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. The Piscataway School District has posted its 2024-25 academic year calendar on its website and listed the dates when school is scheduled ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ -- Registration is now open to participate in the New Jersey Senior Olympic Games, which will be held for the seventh consecutive year in Woodbridge from Sept. 6-8, 2024. Athletes who are age 50 and over as of 12/31/24 are eligible. There are male and female competitions in all ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – It's a rain check for Piscataway's summer concert in the park on Thursday. “Due to expected continued rain, the VooDUDES performance scheduled for Thursday, August 8th at the Columbus Park Extension Gazebo has been postponed and will be rescheduled,” said an announcement on the ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The distraught young woman’s body was dangling from the side of the Morris Street Parking Deck. She had tied one end of a rope around her neck and secured the other end to a guard rail on the second level of the deck. Tommy Williamson and Andre Penn, two stagehands from the ...
CARTERET, NJ — A local middle school social studies teacher is Middlesex County’s 2024-25 “Teacher of the Year,” honored by the NJ Department of Education for her classroom effort and extracurricular contributions. Kristen L. Johnson has taught ancient civilization history to 6th graders at ...
MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ -- As her Union Catholic family cheered from a watch party at Stage House Mountainside, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone moved one step closer to defending her title with a very comfortable victory in her semifinal heat of the women's 400-meter hurdles on Tuesday at the Olympics at Stade ...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ - The South Plainfield Library is helping the community relax and destress with their upcoming meditation class. With so many stressors surrounding community members, library staff wanted to find a way to help the community find peace – and they wanted to do it for free.
NEW BRUNSWICK – There’s a gentle hum coming from the air conditioning vents in the back of this late-model Chrysler Pacifica as it cruises up Suydam Street, passing a guy walking with headphones and a wearing a sweat-soaked Yankees cap. The van turns onto Livingston Avenue, where it passes a kid ...
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Petty Officer 3rd Class David Benitez-Nieves, a native of Piscataway, New Jersey, serves aboard USS Somerset, a U.S. Navy warship operating out of San Diego, California, and participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise in and around the Hawaiian ...
NEW JERSEY — No surprise: Most states rely on taxpayers – not federal aid or service fees – to fund their many government agencies, programs and services. The State of New Jersey, however, reportedly takes a bigger bite out of hardworking, and sometimes struggling taxpayers, than 45 other ...
NEW JERSEY —Did you receive a text message about a balance due after crossing a bridge using E-ZPass? The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) recently issued an alert to all E-ZPass users in regard to a text message scam. Authorities say the text messaging scam targeted E-ZPass customers ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Two county corrections officers were fired, two police officers were required to resign, and 19 cops were suspended from duty from police departments here in 2023, according to the NJ Attorney General’s Office. Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin has, for a fourth year, ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ – Piscataway’s National Night Out event, originally scheduled for Tuesday, August 6, from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., has been postponed due to impending inclement weather, according to township police. A new date has been tentatively set for Tuesday, September 17, said police. More ...
WAYNE, NJ – The storm that crashed over Wayne Township on late Sunday afternoon brought wind and rain, thunder and lightning, with one of those bolts striking an HVAC unit on the roof of BJ’s Wholesale Club at the Willowbrook Mall. The strike tripped a variety of breakers, including one for an ...
BAYONNE, NJ - The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) has approved the sale of land to the City of Bayonne for the construction of a ferry terminal. This came after Mayor Jimmy Davis met with the heads of the state agency seeking to change the agreement that was made in 2020 to ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Back-to-school supplies started to show up on our store shelves a few short days after Fourth of July’s fireworks blasts died down. It seemed like there was plenty of summer still left. Fast-foward to today. Middlesex County’s public schools are now gearing up to resume ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — Classes will resume at schools here in roughly five weeks. What better time to see how our area high schools fared on U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 list of “Best High Schools in New Jersey" and the nation? According to the magazine’s 2024 high school rankings, 42 of ...
Hover-1 Dynamo E-Scooters have been recalled due to risk of serious injury and crash hazard, announced DGLGroup of Edison, NJ. According to the recall, the e-scooter’s brakes can fail, posing a risk of serious injury and crash hazard. Only Hover-1 Dynamo e-scooters with the letters “WY” as the ...
SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- Union Catholic track legend and defending Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone competes in the first round of the women's 400-meter hurdles on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 6:35 a.m. EDT. Her alma mater will host watch parties for the world record holder on Tuesday, Aug. 6, from ...
NEW BRUNSWICK – The Rutgers University Police Department is investigating a reported carjacking that occurred on College Avenue on Friday night. A man was sitting in his car in Lot 30 behind the Student Center at 126 College Avenue when he was approached by two people in masks at about 11:25 ...