(via Inside Out) Police were investigating shots that were fired in a Union Township neighborhood, one of which hit a house. No injuries were reported, nor had police received any reports of gunshot victims turning up at area hospitals, Capt. Scott Breslow said this morning.
(via Inside Out) Linden police are seeking the public’s help in the search for missing 16-year-old Shania Foley.
Congressional budget negotiators are moving to meet a December 13 deadline to produce, well, something. For weeks, we’ve been told to keep expectations low. There’ll be no “grand bargain,” negotiators say. Commentators believe that even the narrowest agreement will be a signal achievement. So here’s my question: Doesn’t that seem like an awfully low bar to you?
PLAINFIELD — The family of Aaron Watkins is still looking for answers more than six years after he disappeared on Nov. 11, 2007.
PLAINFIELD — The Union County Homicide Task Force and the Plainfield Police Division are jointly investigating the Tuesday night shooting death of a Plainfield man, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced Wednesday.
ELIZABETH — Union County Freeholder Vice Chairman Christopher Hudak (3rd R) and Freeholders Sergio Granados (2nd L) and Bruce Bergen (3rd L) joined Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky (2nd R) of Bris Avremy in lighting a Menorah in Phil Rizzuto Park in Elizabeth celebrating Chanukah.
UNION COUNTY — The county’s Sheriff’s Officers are again collecting donations of toys and clothing for needy children through their “Tree of Hope” program.
NEWARK – The State Division of Consumer Affairs and Division of Law within the Office of the Attorney General have filed suit against a company that allegedly took thousands of dollars in deposits and payments from individual consumers and then, among other things, failed to provide consumers with contracted-for home furniture and furnishings or delivered damaged or non-conforming home furniture and furnishings.
LINDEN – Police arrested a 34-year-old Elizabeth woman who allegedly pulled out a stun gun during an argument with a 42-year-old Staten Island woman over a shopping cart on Thanksgiving, according to police.
