Plainfield

Leo Magalang works as a custodian at Charles Reed Elementary in suburban Plainfield, and last week he got a surprise of a lifetime when he was sworn in as a citizen of the United States.

One person has died after a house fire in Plainfield on Monday morning. Emergency crews were called to a four-family home on Sachem Drive in the Central Village section of Plainfield around 3 a.m. and began evacuating residents and putting out the fire. Once the fire was suppressed, one person was found inside and was pronounced dead. Fire officials said…

Investigators believe a group of violent robbers is targeting Hispanic men in Plainfield. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A $10,000 reward was offered in New Jersey for information about a deadly stabbing outside a nightclub. Four men were stabbed outside Chez Maree Nightclub in Plainfield, New Jersey, early Sunday morning, according to the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. One of the men, whose name was withheld pending family identification, was pronounced dead, officials said. The other three victims were…