Senior athlete, Aaron Van Trease of St. John Vianney High School was injured — while in a separate game, Marlboro High School's quarterback suffered a knee injury. Both were just days after the death of 16-year-old football player, Xavier McClain of Linden.
According to details disclosed at trial, Michael Johnston escalated a verbal confrontation outside Butch Kowal's Tavern in Rahway by pulling a knife on the victim, causing throat and wrist lacerations.
Tyler Rios has been sentenced, nearly a year after killing Yasemin Uyar in Rahway and then driving her body out of state — kidnapping their toddler in the process.
A Rahway man and two others dealt more than 24 firearms -- shotguns, rifles, and other firearms that could hold large-capacity magazines -- between December of 2019 and June of 2020.
A physical return to classrooms since the pandemic hit was dashed in some school districts, by damage to buildings and buses during the severe storm that wrapped August.