Due to 23 health violations and numerous complains from the public, the Linden Animal Shelter will be shut down by of 2014.
Plus: New law requires NJ high school graduates to know CPR.
Bodybuilders from all over the state came together at Kean University to compete in the state's Bodybuilding Championships.
46 artists, historians and local non-profit organizations will receive funding through the 2014 Union County HEART Grant Program.
Plus: Could Middletown woman's chai-glazed cinnamon waffles be the next $1 million recipe?
Union County resident Kelli Glover will take on the quarter finals of America's Got Talent Tonight at 9 p.m. on NBC.
Leonard L. Edwards Jr., the man arrested for decapitating several chickens in a Linden cemetery last week also mutilated a goat last April.
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Plus: Three-way accident leaves two motorcyclists injured.
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The ACLU-NJ recognizes Union County for being the first county in the State of New Jersey to decline immigration detainer requests.
Plus: Tom's River man breaks into home, steals money, eats food.
A look back at some of the stories coming out of Union County this week.
Plus: Protesters greet Gov. Christie in Northfield and Ocean City
A black flag with Islamic language hung from a Union County home caused quite the stir on social media this week.
Policed arrested Leonard L. Edwards, Jr., 41 of Wharton for the alleged decapitation of six chickens in a Union County grave yard.
Plus: Tutu Spoiled hosts birthday party to raise money for childhood cancer research.
The Union City High School football team will dedicate their season to Josue Romero, the teen killed in a car accident on Saturday.
Frances Nelson spent her 103 birthday with family at the Cornell Hall Rehab Center.
Plus: Seaside Heights organizers to reimburse for response to multiple arrests, overdoses.
Our communities from Millburn to Rahway, New Jersey faced significant damages from Rahway River flooding and Hurricane Irene.
Autumn will be here before we know it, and Union County’s Watchung Stable is busy preparing for the start of riding lessons.
Plus: Hawthorne Farmer's Market crash kills one, injures two.
The Union County Summer Arts Festival concert series continues its 54th season of music on Wednesday evening, August 13.
The 13.5 acre estate nestled in a quiet enclave of Summit, just off Route 24, is open 365 days a year, dawn to dusk, free of charge.
Plus: New community center to be renamed after President Barack Obama.
A bear was spotted walking around in a few backyards along New Providence Road in Mountainside before heading toward the Watchung Reserve.
The National Passport Center has issued Certificates of Excellence of the Passport Services offered by offices in Elizabeth and Westfield.
Two brothers were robbed at gunpoint in Union County by a 17-year-old Linden boy and a 16-year-old Sayreville teen on Sunday.
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The two-day conference event features Stan Davis, a leading voice in the anti-bullying crusade.
The annual Union County Senior Citizens Art Show is open to artists who are 60 years of age or older and reside in Union County
The Compassionate Friends (TCF), a support group for parents who have lost a child is meeting on Sunday, August 17 at 7:00 p.m.
The trial begins for a N.J. inmate suing state Department of Corrections officials for prison conditions that he said are unconstitutional.
Two Springfield men admitted to working with an organized crime family to run an illegal betting website in federal court on Tuesday.
The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders will sponsor a Household Special Waste Collection event on Saturday, August 2
The Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Department of Parks & Recreation announce that the next evening of “Family Fun and Flix
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