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Explosion in Old Bridge, N.J.: 1 dead, 4 injured
Police are investigating an explosion in Old Bridge, New Jersey, that left a 73-year-old woman dead and four other people injured on Wednesday. The blast occurred around 11:30 a.m. at the Superior Signal Company on West Greystone Road and led to a hazardous materials response from several nearby towns, ABC7NY reported.
Police: 7 people, including a baby and 3-year-old, injured in NJ Transit bus crash expected to be OK
Woodbridge Police Department Traffic Unit said an NJ Transit bus was driving east on Port Reading Avenue when it rear-ended an Acura that then rear-ended a transit van.
Police Arrest Perth Amboy Man in Sunday's Stabbing Death
PERTH AMBOY, NJ — Authorities have charged a 24-year-old city man with murder in connection with last Sunday night’s fatal stabbing death of another man, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Police Chief Lawrence Cattano said in a prepared statement. Detectives have arrested Luis Alberto Serrano Diaz, 24, on charges of first-degree murder, and two counts of illegal weapons possession. He is in custody at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center in North Brunswick, awaiting a Superior Court arraignment.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER The charges against Dias stem from the Sunday, April 28th...
Inside the tiny N.J. suburb with the fastest-growing Asian population in the U.S
BELLE MEAD, N.J. — A few minutes outside of Princeton, New Jersey, residents of the local community coordinate through social media platforms WhatsApp and WeChat on things like replacing a roof, planting flowers or throwing block parties. Sometimes, a neighborhood street is shut down for cultural celebrations like Lunar New Year or Holi. At a park in the hamlet sits a cricket pitch, all up to international standards. Many kids go to Hindi or Chinese schools, which feel like family.
I’m the one-man face of Jewish resistance against antisemitism at Princeton —here’s why I won’t back down
One Jewish student is leading the charge against campus antisemitism at Princeton University — and taking heat from anti-Israel students and faculty alike. Maximillian Meyer, 19, has been shoved by a pro-terrorist student, targeted by an anti-Israel professor, and unable to concentrate on his school work as antisemitic chants and terrorist imagery flood his once idyllic Ivy League campus. “I never in a million years could have imagined that I would see the flag of Hezbollah on this campus or anywhere across America,” Max said, “Many Jewish students have told me they feel unsafe in major areas of our campus.” Meyer,...
After Columbia arrests, Rutgers pro-Palestinian encampment remained intact and peaceful
Hours after Columbia University sent NYPD officers onto its Ivy League campus overnight to arrest more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators, Wednesday was quiet at a tent encampment of pro-Palestinian students on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick. Rutgers students in scarlet and black commencement gowns posed for pictures across the street from a...
RWJUH/Somerset Accepting Applications for Healing Home Transitional Housing in Somerville
SOMERVILLE, NJ - Applications are being accepted by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, for its Healing Homes transitional housing initiative. The deadline for Healing Homes applications is May 31.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER The hospital provides two homes in Somerville for transitional housing for Somerset County individuals or families who have an illness that caused financial hardship and are unable to afford housing. As part of RWJBarnabas Health’s Social Impact and Community Investment Practice, the hospital launched Healing Homes in 2019 with one home. A second home was...
Chicken sandwich franchise backed by Shaq opening first NJ location. Here's where
Big Chicken, a fast-casual chicken sandwich chain restaurant backed by Shaquille O’ Neal, is opening in the Village at Bridgewater Commons in mid-June. It will be the first New Jersey location for the chain, which has 30 national stores and 350 in the works. “Bridgewater Commons is just a...
Liquor Cave Somerset Shopping Center Bridgewater
Liquor Cave is opening its fifth store at Somerset Shopping Center in Bridgewater, which will sell fine wine, spirits and craft beer. An opening date was not announced. Levin Management Corporation (LMC) serves as the leasing and managing agent for Somerset Shopping Center. LMC Senior Leasing Representative Vanessa Kelty arranged the 7,400-square-foot Liquor Cave lease.
Where Rutgers basketball stands as transfer portal window closes
The transfer portal is officially closed. The 45-day window in which college basketball players could enter their name concluded at midnight on Thursday, marking the end of outgoing movement across the sport. Some names may still trickle in over the next 48 hours as compliance departments across the country officially complete the necessary paperwork, but from this point forward, no player — undergraduate or graduate — can transfer out of their current school this offseason.
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