Police came through the front door of a Piscataway home after seeing two people lying unconscious on the floor, according to Attorney General Matt Platkin.
Abbie, a 9-year-old golden retriever mix, was traveling from a South Carolina shelter to a planned new home in Maine and escaped the van that had stopped at a service area in East Brunswick.
Attorney General Matt Platkin said that Piscataway police went to a home on River Road in Piscataway after receiving a call about a man with a knife around 5:30 p.m. The man charged at officers and was fatally shot, according to Platkin.
East Brunswick mayor Brad Cohen in a video announced that Paramount Realty and Edgewood Properties began work Monday on a plan to turn the enclosed Brunswick Square Mall into an open air marketplace.
Jackson police said a small van driven by Evelin Villanueva-Detejeda, 43, of Perth Amboy was headed south on Toms River Road (Route 571)and tried to pass in a no-passing zone.
South Brunswick police said Bilal Bellamy,35, was involved with two road rage incidents and three home burglaries in surrounding towns before being caught in Phillipsburg.
South Brunswick Deputy Police Chief James Ryan said the Jamesburg woman saw the lights at the crossing on Cranbury-South River Road (Route 535) just after 3 p.m. and came to a stop on the Conrail tracks.