CARTERET – Two freight train tanker cars carrying a flammable liquid derailed last night in an industrial section of Carteret. A Conrail spokesman said that neither tanker car was compromised and they are not leaking, and that no one was injured.
EDISON – State Police say that a Hillsborough woman was drunk when her vehicle crashed into two trucks parked on the side of Interstate 287 in April, starting a chain-reaction collision that resulted in her death as well as the death of another man who was trying to help her, according to an NJ.com report.
PERTH AMBOY — Police are actively investigating the death of a Perth Amboy man, who was shot when he apparently attacked a city police officer with a knife on Wednesday afternoon, Middlesex County Acting Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey announced.
NEW BRUNSWICK–Aiming to promote the early detection of lung cancer, the Thoracic Oncology Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has partnered with its Flagship Hospital Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) and University Radiology to offer $99 lung cancer screenings to the community.
EDISON — Students and future students who need enrollment services at Middlesex County College may take advantage of special hours on Saturday, Dec. 7. The offices will be open from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The college is located at 2600 Woodbridge Avenue in Edison.
PERTH AMBOY – Police shot and killed a man on the 100 block of Hall Avenue this afternoon at about 1 p.m., according to an NJ.com report.
CARTERET — Mayor Daniel J. Reiman executed a redevelopment agreement on Monday, Dec. 2, with the Hampshire Investment Group, who will turn the abandoned 33 acre Ball Glass industrial property at 50 Bryla Street into a state of the art industrial complex.
KEASBEY – Mainetti, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of garment hangers, has relocated its United States headquarters to 110,000 square feet at 300 Mac Lane in Keasbey, announced Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. The company relocated to its new space from Secaucus in an expansion move.
EAST BRUNSWICK – “A Christmas Carol” returns to Playhouse 22, East Brunswick’s Community Theater, for its annual production starting Dec. 13. “A Christmas Carol” is directed and adapted by Tony Adase, based on the novella written by Charles Dickens. The show runs through Dec. 22.
FORDS – The Social Concerns Committee & Student Council Officers of the eighth grade class at Our Lady of Peace School’s in Fords assist in making Christmas goodie gags for the residents of St. Joseph’s Seniors Home in Woodbridge, which is operated by the Little Servant Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
