The driver of a sport utility vehicle has been cited for running a red light on Route 18 and striking a crossing car late Wednesday morning, police said.

Three people have been charged with shoplifting from the Sam's Club on Route 18, police said.

Burglars stole hundreds of dollars worth of cash, jewelry and electronics Wednesday from a Queens Road home, police said.

A Monroe Township resident was charged Nov. 14 with trying to use a fraudulent prescription at an East Brunswick pharmacy.

Medics took an elderly woman to an area hospital late Wednesday morning after the car she was driving collided with a sport utility vehicle at the intersection of Route 18 and Eggers Street.

With doses nearly impossible to find in Middlesex County, most Central Jersey parents looking for the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine instead will have to keep reminding their children to wash their hands and hope the virus isn't already prevalent in school.

The idea that cooks and books go together has led to a new feature of the East Brunswick Library: A Novel Cafe.

Mangia, a new Somerville Italian restaurant, is celebrating the holiday season by working with local food banks and charities to help those in need.

EAST BRUNSWICK -- An East Brunswick man accused of helping to cover up Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme and investment fraud has been released on $1 million bond after he was arrested Friday at his Quaker Drive home.

Two former employees for Bernard Madoff, including a man from East Brunswick, programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the money manager's massive Ponzi scheme and were given hush money when they threatened to stop lying, federal prosecutors said Friday.

At 11:20 a.m. Sunday, a 2005 Dodge Ram 1500, towing a travel trailer, was heading east on Interstate 80 in Pocono Township when it jackknifed at mile-marker 294.7, causing the trailer to roll over.

Local emergency crews pulled two men from an East Brunswick lake after their boat became capsized during an afternoon fishing trip, police said.

Two of three men fishing Monday on Dallenbach Lake behind the Crystal Springs Family Aquatic Center in East Brunswick had to be saved after their boat capsized.

NEW BRUNSWICKa 'An East Brunswick doctor was convicted Friday of charges including practicing medicine without a license and stealing $122,000 from Medicare and about $28,000 from other medical insurance carriers, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced.

The township's Zoning Board has approved, with conditions, a proposed medical office complex at 660 Cranbury Road.