Fair 47°
Police & Fire
North Plainfield Woman, 29, Killed By Wrong-Way NJ Turnpike Driver, State Police Say North Plainfield Woman, 29, Killed By Wrong-Way NJ Turnpike Driver, State Police Say
North Plainfield Woman, 29, Killed By Wrong-Way NJ Turnpike Driver, State Police Say A 29-year-old North Plainfield woman died after a wrong-way driver on the New Jersey Turnpike hit her car head-on early Monday morning, authorities said. UPDATE: A GoFundMe campaign has been started to help with funeral expenses  Kristen Leary was headed southbound in Woodbridge when she was hit by a 23-year-old State College, Pennsylvania man hit her near milepost 94.1 around 1:45 a.m., a New Jersey State Police spokesman said. The wrong-way driver was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick with serious injuries, State Police said. Neither car contained pa…

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Fugitive Wanted In Plainfield Killing Arrested Fugitive Wanted In Plainfield Killing Arrested
Fugitive Wanted In Plainfield Killing Arrested A suspect in the killing of a Plainfield man in May was arrested last week after spending weeks on the run, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said Monday.  Authorities have been looking for Djuan Gamble, 26, since at least June 12, when he was charged with murder and related weapons offenses in connection to the death of 32-year-old Jaquan Heyward.  Heyward was found by police in the courtyard of the Liberty Village housing complex May 26. he had been shot multiple times.  He was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital about an hour later.  Gamble…

SHARE

by Paul Milo
Obituaries
TRIBUTE: 'Brain Cancer Warrior' Josephine Palman Of Woodland Park Dies, 13 TRIBUTE: 'Brain Cancer Warrior' Josephine Palman Of Woodland Park Dies, 13
Tribute: 'Brain Cancer Warrior' Josephine Palman Of Woodland Park Dies, 13 When Josephine Palman was young, she donated her long hair to those battling cancer. The Woodland Park teen affectionately known as Pepa, died on June 5 at at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick after a battle of her own with DIPG brain cancer. More than $36,700 had been raised as of Tuesday morning on a GoFundMe for Josephine's medical bills. Josephine, an eighth grader at Memorial Middle School, was remembered as a brain cancer warrior, having fought for 16 months. "She fought and never complained, always believing she would defeat DIPG, because she loved …

SHARE

by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Man Wanted In Plainfield Slaying Caught In Pennsylvania UPDATE: Man Wanted In Plainfield Slaying Caught In Pennsylvania
Update: Man Wanted In Plainfield Slaying Caught In Pennsylvania UPDATE: A suspect is in custody, authorities said May 8.  A shooting Sunday afternoon claimed the life of a 19-year-old Plainfield man, Acting Union County Prosecutor Jennifer Davenport and Police Director Carl Riley said in a statement.  Police responded to a report of shots fired around 4:10 p.m. near West Fourth Street and Monroe Avenue. There they found David Perez*, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.  He was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterwards.  Union County's sheriff, police d…

SHARE

by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Amazon NJ Warehouse Chemical Release: Dozens Hospitalized, One Critical, More Treated On-Scene Amazon NJ Warehouse Chemical Release: Dozens Hospitalized, One Critical, More Treated On-Scene
Amazon NJ Warehouse Chemical Release: Dozens Hospitalized, One Critical, More Treated On-Scene UPDATE: Two dozen workers at an Amazon warehouse in South Jersey were hospitalized – one in critical condition -- and 30 others were treated at the scene after a can of pepper spray intended to ward off bears fell from a shelf and released a cloud of fumes. The victims at the 1.3 million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Robinsville, just outside of Trenton, reportedly had burning throats and difficulty breathing after the aerosol can fell off a shelf and discharged the fumes, authorities said. "Today at our Robbinsville fulfillment center, a damaged aerosol can dispensed strong…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down
NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down A New Jersey State Police trooper was justified in shooting and killing a driver who rammed his pickup truck into two police vehicles and then tried to run him over, a grand jury found. Christopher Pizzichetta, 46, of Lewes, Delaware, was sitting in his pickup truck at the north end of the Molly Pitcher Service Area in Cranbury last March 30 when plainclothes State Police officers investigating drugs and other crimes at the NJ Turnpike rest stop approached in an unmarked SUV,  state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Other troopers in an unmarked black pickup truck positioned their veh…

SHARE

by Jerry DeMarco