"We have no reason to believe this had anything to do with fireworks," said Perth Amboy Fire Chief Edward Mullen.
This brings the ranks of the Woodbridge Police Dept. to a maximum staffing level of 225 sworn officers.
A man appears to have shot himself during an encounter with police in Woodbridge Friday, according to the New Jersey Attorney General:
Woodbridge Police officer Justin Nerney and NYPD Det. Matthew Mauro were released from the hospital, and are recovering from being shot.
The officers, a Woodbridge patrolman and an NYPD detective, were each shot once. They were released from the hospital and are recovering:
Patch obtained new details in the case of a Washington man who shot two women in Carteret Wednesday morning, killing one:
A Woodbridge Police officer and an NYPD officer were shot Thursday at the Raritan Hotel in Woodbridge, while looking for a murder suspect:
A suspect was arrested Wednesday evening in the shooting of two women in Carteret, where one died and the other remains critical.
The prosecutor said she has no plans to appeal a five-year prison sentence for a man who killed a Fords woman in a hit and run.
A Colonia man was charged in a sting done by the Middlesex County Prosecutor, targeting people who lured minors, 13 and 14, on social media:
The man who hit and killed a Woodbridge woman outside Wegmans last August was sentenced to five years for the crime:
Auxiliary officers serve in a volunteer capacity in support of Woodbridge Police with traffic control, crowd control and event security.
This happened March 23 on Rt. 9 south in Hopelawn. The truck driver was actually headed home that afternoon, to begin hospice for his wife:
The homeowner said he woke up Friday morning, May 10, and discovered that his Jeep Grand Cherokee was missing:
This is the second time in less than a week a home on Broadway in Colonia was targeted for car theft.
Yanira Abreu, 42, of the Keasbey section of Woodbridge, previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The chief engineer of a Greek oil tanker admitted Tuesday that he improperly discharged an oily waste into the Arthur Kill in 2022:
A teacher at Carteret Middle School is accused of sexually touching a middle school student there in 2022.
A local man will be sentenced in June for hitting and killing a Fords woman as she walked home from the Woodbridge Wegmans last summer:
A former high school principal was found guilty Thursday for breaking into a woman's apartment in Woodbridge in 2014, and raping her.
A Pennsylvania woman was hit at 4:48 a.m. Sunday, while police say she was walking in the left lane of traffic on the Parkway in Woodbridge:
Police say Javon Robinson, 22, of Carteret, shot and killed Evan Blozen, 23, also of Carteret.
According to America’s Poison Control Centers, 391 calls reporting tianeptine overdose were made last year; 27 of the calls came from NJ.
Gerard Beauzile, 63, a South Plainfield resident, was sentenced to prison Tuesday in federal court in Trenton.
This was the shooting that occurred last June at Sansone Auto Mall on Rt. 1. Two Woodbridge Police officers were involved:
The three-month-old baby boy killed by a pit bull last Saturday in Woodbridge was buried Friday morning, and a GoFundMe started:
Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office looks for leads in the death of Evan Blozen, who died after being shot in Carteret.
The spirit of April Duncza, who police say was killed by her ex-fiance in her Woodbridge apartment last year, will live on, vows her family:
The family's pit bull that mauled a three-month-old infant boy to death in Woodbridge Saturday has been put down by a vet.
An infant was killed and the mother seriously injured by the family dog Saturday morning in Woodbridge:
The Santos brothers, of Miami, were arrested after police first stopped their car in Woodbridge last January:
South Carolina man gets life in prison without parole for killing a Woodbridge man at the Amboy Ave. Speedway in winter of 2018:
It was a Parks Dept. employee who found the man sleeping next to the "hot house," a small building in the park often used as a snack stand:
Another lawsuit was now filed in the 2022 Megabus crash on the Turnpike in Woodbridge, where two women died and the driver lost his leg:
Police say Tony Russell, 33, of Avenel, made false reports to police on Feb. 10 while at a motel in Secaucus.
The first call of the fire came in at 4:32 a.m. on South Columbus Street in Fords:
The NJ Attorney General just released body-camera footage from the Dec. 28 fatal police shooting of a man on the Parkway:
At one point, the teen asked if their age gap bothered him and he replied he "came for a 13 y/o body," said federal prosecutors.
The seven new WPD patrol officers are:
The Iselin residents are Eddie Signo, 30, and Champagne Thompson, 30. They were sentenced for their crimes.