Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Man shoots ex-girlfriend, self at mall

    Girl in stable condition; shooter dies from self-inflicted gunshot BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer Man shoots ex-girlfriend, self at mall Girl in stable condition; shooter dies from self-inflicted gunshot BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer A man from South River shot his ex-girlfriend Friday, Sept. 7, at Menlo Park Mall before turning the gun on himself,…

  • Man robbed in stairwell of $65K in jewelry, cash

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Police are looking for two white males who robbed a 51-year-old New Brunswick man of money and jewelry in the Bridge Pointe office complex on Route 27 last week, police said. The incident occurred in the stairwell at 7:08 p.m. Sept. 6, police said. The man told police…

  • State corrections officer charged with assault, DUI

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – A 50-year-old state Department of Corrections officer was charged with aggravated assault by motor vehicle and driving while intoxicated last week in connection with in a motor vehicle accident that occurred in August, police said. Police charged John K. Groelly, Iselin, at 12:09 p.m. on Sept. 7, police…

  • Parlin childhood set stage for Diaz’s acclaimed works

    Best-selling author to visit Barnes & Noble in E.B. on Sunday BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Wsection of Old Bridge from the Dominican Republic in 1974 at age 6, he noticed profound differences from his country of birth. LILY OEI Old Bridge native Junot Diaz will make an appearance in East Brunswick next week as…

  • County to get $1.5 million in homeland security money

    Freeholders to use money to improve interagency communication BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer MIDDLESEX COUNTY – County freeholders announced this week that Middlesex County will receive $1.5 million in Homeland Security funds, the bulk of which will go to improving countywide communication between various emergency agencies. According to Freeholder Christopher Rafano, chair of the Law…

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  • Prof. teaches African nursing educators HIV prevention

    Finds cultural barriers impeding actual progress in the fight of the disease BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer EDISON – Dula Pacquiao had one week to change the world. The associate professor and director of the Stanley Bergen Jr. Center for Multicultural Education, Research and Practice at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey…

  • Worker freed from trench in Fords, considered stable

    OSHA is investigating concern over substandard hole BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer KATHY CHANG An ambulance awaits the worker who was freed from a trench four hours after it collapsed around him outside a home in Fords on Aug. 29. The man has been listed as stable. WOODBRIDGE – A 34-year-old Plainfield man is in…