Cliffside Park police bust teacher for drugs after finding needle at grammar...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A needle found at a Cliffside Park grammar school sparked an investigation that led to the arrest of a high school special education teacher on heroin and prescription drug...
View ArticleBreaking Bad: Former Palisades Park man gets drug court probation for selling...
UPDATE: A Bergen Catholic graduate from Palisades Park was sentenced to probation for selling crystal meth and GHB from his Somerset County home. John N. Norton, who was arrested by State Police...
View ArticlePort Authority PD charges CNN producers with trying to break into World Trade...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Port Authority police arrested two CNN producers this afternoon who they said tried to break into the site around 1 World Trade Center in an apparent copycat attempt of a...
View ArticleEnglewood police grab ex-con in pre-dawn business burglaries
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A quality surveillance camera was all it took to help Englewood police catch an ex-con with a 20-year rap sheet who they said broke into a Dunkin Donuts and a convenience store...
View Article‘Brains’ behind robbery of East Rutherford Papa John’s in Muslim clothes...
EXCLUSIVE: A woman charged in a series of armed robberies revealed a larger role in the holdup of a Papa John’s Pizza in East Rutherford as part of a plea deal that’s sending her to state prison for...
View ArticleWallington police charge woman with stabbing boyfriend, spitting at officer
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bronx woman staying at a friend’s house in Wallington was arrested after police said she stabbed her boyfriend in the hand, then spit in an officer’s face and ripped out a...
View ArticleMother, 90, in elder abuse case against Lodi fire marshal dies
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 90-year-old Lodi woman who Bergen County authorities said was the victim of elder abuse at the hands of her son died yesterday, a little over a year after the incident....
View ArticleUpper Saddle River police charge Fort Lee man in car scam
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee man being sought by Upper Saddle River police in a car sale scam was brought to the Bergen County Jail following his arrest last week in Spring Valley. According to...
View ArticlePolice investigate strong-arm robbery report on Teaneck Road
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Teaneck man was expected to talk with township detectives this afternoon about being jumped by two men who he said took his wallet and cellphone after throwing him...
View ArticleMahwah police charge fugitive in DWI hit-and-run, assault on officers
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A woman tried to take responsibility for a hit-and-run crash involving her fugitive boyfriend, who was drunk when Mahwah police found him, then kicked and spit at officers at...
View ArticleJurors return partial verdict in Englewood murder trial, back tomorrow
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors remained deadlocked this afternoon in the trial of a Brooklyn man charged with killing rapper Kampane, setting his body on fire in an empty Englewood house and then...
View ArticleFive buildings destroyed in ‘jumping’ Paterson fire
UPDATE: Five buildings in Paterson’s Bunker Hill neighborhood were destroyed by a fast-moving, wind-swept blaze early today that drew firefighters from no fewer than 19 companies in Bergen, Passaic and...
View ArticleSandy relief leaves second-home owners high and dry
A HOMEOWNER WRITES: While the recent passing of HR 3370 will slow the pain of insurance rate hikes for some, 17 months after Hurricane Sandy, it is in no way the end of the battle for many of us....
View ArticleBleeding burglar caught, Fair Lawn police say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fair Lawn police arrested an 18-year-old borough man last night who they said cut himself on the hand after breaking the rear window with a rock during a home burglary....
View ArticleHigh-tech Fort Lee Communications Center speeds emergency response
SHOUT OUT: Modern technology meets ergonomic design at the new Fort Lee Communications Center, assisting dispatchers required to long shift during storms and other emergencies. Dispatchers can adjust...
View ArticleCarload of diapers leads Rochelle Park police to two in credit card fraud
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bags and boxes of diapers piled to the roof line of a rental car caught a Rochelle Park patrolman’s attention — and led to the arrests of two Bronx men for credit card fraud....
View ArticleJudge rejects mistrial, jurors convict Brooklyn man in Englewood murder of...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Following a last-ditch effort by the defense attorney to save her client, jurors in Hackensack today convicted a Brooklyn man of killing aspiring rapper Kampane, setting his...
View ArticleSmoky Garfield basement blaze guts ranch house
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Firefighters knocked down a smoky blaze that gutted a Garfield ranch house this morning. Garfield firefighters, Wallington FAST team and an Elmwood Park engine were among those...
View ArticlePennsylvania ‘pimp’ admits role in Bergen-linked teen hooker ring
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking a minor admitted in federal court in Newark today that he ran a prostitution ring out of New Jersey and Pennsylvania while...
View ArticleFair Lawn crash sends Jeep onto lawn, both drivers to hospital
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A crash in Fair Lawn this afternoon sent both drivers to Hackensack University Medical Center by ambulance with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries. The collision...
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