North Plainfield

One told the officer: "I’m willing to fight. A gun and a badge don’t scare me. My hands work nice," police say.

A man was killed on the highway Saturday night, while a second pedestrian was seriously hurt Sunday morning in North Plainfield, police said.

South Plainfield's longtime recreation director, Kevin Hughes, was arrested today. He held the post for over 12 years, until he resigned last month.

The recipient is a 4-year-old boy named Grayson, who dreams of one day becoming a police officer.

North Plainfield police say the suspect tried to burglarize several cars and relieved himself in one driveway.

Two safes holding guns, jewelry, and police badges were taken from a Watchung Borough home belonging to a Somerset County police chief.

North Plainfield's chief says he doesn't know if his Watchung home was targeted specifically because he's a police officer.

Authorities are investigating a fire that raged into Tuesday morning at the site of a vacant former nursing home.

Mike Jean-Baptiste is charged with sexually assaulting a woman at a Kenilworth motel after meeting her that same day while on duty with the North Plainfield Police Department.

Officer Mike Jean-Baptiste allegedly met a woman while on duty and sexually assaulted her at a hotel the same day according to police.