Franklin Township Police Officer Keith Hermann and his wife, Nadine, after he received a State PBA Bronze Valor Award Nov. 18 at Harrah’s in Atlantic City. Photo: Darrin Russo. A Franklin Township Police Officer is among four recipients of the 2018 200 Club of Somerset County Valor Awards. Cpl. Keith Hermann will be honored for his actions in stopping a …
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Police said the driver of this Jeep Wrangler struck another car at JFK Boulevard and Hamilton Street before careening into the traffic light. Photo: PJ Parker. A 41-year-old township woman was injured May 5 after her car was hit by another at John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Hamilton Street. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings …
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A township man is the latest of four Franklin residents to plead guilty to a charge of operating or participating in a multi-county cocaine distribution ring. Michael “Augue” Rodriguez, 40, of Somerset pleaded guilty on April 30 to a first degree count of being the leader of a narcotics trafficking network, according to a press release from the Middlesex County …
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Six township residents were among 58 people throughout Somerset County arrested April 17-19 in a deadbeat parent sweep by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office. The six, who were arrested on each of the three days of the sweep, owed a combined $110,678.16, about 10 percent of the total $1,075,285.97 owed by the parents arrested. Don’t Miss Out! No other media …
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Approximately $3,200 in jewelry was stolen from a resident of The Park at Franklin apartments in one of two break-ins on April 5, police said. Both apartments in the John F. Kennedy Boulevard complex were entered by someone forcing open the front doors, Franklin Township Police spokesman Lt. Phil Rizzo said. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin …
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New Jersey’s Attorney General Grubir S. Grewal. Photo:Office of Attorney General / Tim Larsen. Franklin Township and three other Somerset County towns reported one bias incident each in 2016, according to a report released by the state Attorney General’s Office. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin …
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A 17-year-old township youth faces weapon and narcotics charges after he was found with a loaded handgun and drug paraphernalia in Franklin Middle school. The youth was part of the school district’s “Road to Success” alternative high school program, which is run out of the middle school. The program is geared to help those students having difficulty in high school …
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Township Clerk Ann Marie McCarthy returned to work on March 9 after the Somerset County Prosecutor dropped insurance fraud and theft by deception charges against her. (File photo). Township Clerk Ann Marie McCarthy returned to her job March 9 after the Somerset County Prosecutor dropped insurance fraud charges against her. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township …
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Police were called to Franklin Middle School on March 6 after a bullet was found by a student in the school’s gym. The discovery by a Franklin Middle School student of a bullet in the school gym March 6 led to a lock down and search by township police. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings …
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