• Crime Stoppers offers reward for info. in New Brunswick homicide

    Crime Stoppers of Middlesex County is offering a cash reward to anyone who anonymously provides information that leads to an arrest in the fatal shooting of a city hospital worker in New Brunswick. The offer is being made during the investigation into theAug. 6 death of Jesse Simons, 61, of New Brunswick, according to an…

  • Ex-sheriff, two employees indicted on bribery charges

    Spicuzzo accused of demanding money from eight seeking positions or promotions BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer Joseph Spicuzzo Former Middlesex County Sheriff Joseph Spicuzzo and two former sheriff’s department employees were indictedAug. 19 on charges of bribery and official misconduct. The three suspects allegedly conspired in a jobsfor cash scheme in which Spicuzzo collected approximately $112,000…

  • Twins go from GEDs to Columbia University

    Eugene and Vincent Dinescu of North Brunswick plan to become plastic surgeons BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Vincent (l) and Eugene Dinescu stand in an organic chemistry laboratory at Middlesex County College, Edison, where they studied. The North Brunswick twins are now attending Columbia University in New York, where they are studying to be plastic…

  • South Brunswick named ‘Best Place to Live’

    CNNMoney Magazine ranks the town No. 2 in the state BY DEANNAMcLAFFERTY Staff Writer CNNMoney Magazine ranked South Brunswick as one of the country’s best places to live in the magazine’s annual town comparison survey. The township placed 22nd overall and 2nd in the state, behind Montville, NJ, for 2011. Louisville, Colo., took the No.…

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    Monica Joshi (r) and Harita Vellalath, both 14, perform a Bollywood dance during the fourth annual Indo-American Cultural Foundation’s celebration of India’s Independence Day, held on the grounds of the South Brunswick YMCA on Aug. 21. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • PGA’s best set to take on Plainfield C.C.

    The field for The Barclays, the first of four events in the PGA Tour Playoffs for the FedExCup, got a lot stronger last weekend. At the PGAstop at the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C., that concluded Sunday, Aug. 21, Padraig Harrington and Ernie Els, both Major tournament champions, played well enough to qualify for the…

  • Arias, Martin win Park System’s Woodshollow Mountain Bike races

    More than 100 mountain bike racers took on the challenge of Middletown’s Tatum Park onAug. 13. The park was the site of the Monmouth County Park System’s 17th annual Woodshollow Mountain Bike Race. Riders raced though the open fields and woodlands of Tatum Park. Racers competed in Sport Class (intermediate and advanced levels) and Beginner…

  • Hawks look for better results in close games

    Monmouth University football team to kick off 2011 season on Sept. 3 BY TIM MORRIS Staff Writer I f Monmouth University’s football team is going to turn around last year’s 3-8 campaign, coach Kevin Callahan knows where the Hawks have to begin. “We’ve got to finish games,” he said. Last year the Hawks lost four…

  • RFH Pop Warner program still going strong in JSPWFL

    BY MATTHEW ROCCO Correspondent Rumson-Fair Haven Pop Warner’s fall season is under way as nine youth football teams began their eight-game schedule. RFH Pop Warner is a member of the Jersey Shore Pop Warner Football League, which holds playoff games in October. Players ranging from7 to 13 years old and a combined total of more…

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