Exploding tire at Ridgewood gas station seriously injures man
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 50-year-old main sustained a serious head injury when a tire he was filling at a Ridgewood gas station exploded this morning. The victim was knocked unconscious for awhile at...
View ArticleFalse Pringles can yields cocaine in BMW stop on PIP in Alpine
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A traffic stop for tinted windows and unclear license plates on the Palisades Interstate Parkway Parkway led to the seized of of 1.7 ounces of cocaine in a false-bottom Pringles...
View ArticleParts of Hackensack, Maywood, Teaneck lose power
ALERT: PSE&G said it’s trying to determine what knocked power out to nearly 2,000 customeres in Hackensack, Maywood and Teaneck this morning. Power was returned just before 10:30 following the...
View Article3 Lyndhurst family members charged in mortgage scam
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three men from the same Lyndhurst family were arrested and charged by Bergen County authorities with scamming homeowners trying to modify their mortgages, sending some of them...
View ArticleAuthorities seek help in Hasbrouck Heights hit and run fatal
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Authorities are hoping the public can help find a hit-and-run driver who killed a so-far unidentified man in Hasbrouck Heights. Investigators believe the car involved was a four-door...
View ArticleEx-Ramsey police officer guilty of one count, innocent of other in child sex...
Jurors in the child sex abuse trial of former Ramsey police officer Jeffrey Kimmel split their verdict this afternoon, finding him innocent of the more serious charge of child sexual abuse but guilty...
View ArticleBergenfield suspended driver jailed on warrants out of four towns
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A weekend argument brought Bergenfield police to a home where they said they found a man who was wanted on warrants out of four towns — all for not showing up for court after he was...
View ArticlePolice: Stevens grad student had cybersex exploits with Minnesota girl, 15
ONLY ON CVP: As a student in one of the hottest graduate programs for data analysis and business intelligence in the country, Daniel Byron Derringer was on track for a six-figure job — until police...
View ArticleMan who had sex with girl, 12, could get same number of years in prison
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A judge in Hackensack today told a repeat sex offender who admitted statutorily raping a 12-year-old girl that he could sentence him to a dozen years in prison in a few months....
View ArticleSouth Korean national who slashed Little Ferry man to be deported
ONLY ON CVP: A South Korean national who slashed another man with a knife in Little Ferry last June most likely will be deported once he is released from jail into federal custody next week, a judge in...
View ArticleMahwah officer finds morphine, oxy, cocaine in traffic stop
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A Mahwah police officer picked off a motorist traveling with morphine, oxycontin and cocaine in his car — and no valid New Jersey identification, Chief James Batelli said this...
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Prosecutors got ‘wrong man’ in Garfield florist partner’s murder, defense...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Money was the motive for Ridgefield flower salesman Thomas Battinelli’s to shoot his business partner in the back of the head as he sat at his desk, reading the Bergen Record,...
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Flying metal impales Fairview body shop worker’s arm
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man working a grinding machine at a Fairview truck body shop had his left arm impaled by a piece of metal that snapped off earlier today. The 58-year-old victim was taken by...
View ArticleInformant in federal student visa case admits blowing cover
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Little Ferry woman who worked as a snitch for Homeland Security agents admitted in federal court in Newark today that she tipped off at one potential target of a probe into a...
View ArticleBrush fires erupt in Carlstadt, Kearny, Ridgefield
A brush fire in the Carlstadt Meadowlands off Paterson Plank Road was quickly knocked down early this evening, while firefighters continued battling another blaze that broke out in Kearny earlier today...
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Batmobiles, Monkeemobile planned for 3rd annual PBA Car, Truck, Cycle show
New and old school Batmobiles will join the Green Hornet’s “Black Beauty,” the Monkeemobile and more than 200 other slick rides at the third annual Car, Truck & Motorcycle Show sponsored by PBA...
View ArticleMotorcyclist without helmet injures head in Fair Lawn crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A New Milford motorcyclist was at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after crashing his bike in Fair Lawn while not wearing a helmet last night. Saran Holmes, 40, was taken...
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Gun buyback program in Bergen this weekend
PUBLIC SAFETY: New Jersey’s no-questions-asked gun buyback program comes to Bergen County this Saturday and Sunday, April 13-14, at 11 churches and temples in eight Bergen County towns. “Gun violence...
View ArticleRiver Vale man, 57, held in alleged sex assault
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A 57-year-old Chinese national from River Vale was being held on sex assault charges following his arrest by borough police. Rong Fa Xu was charged with sexual assault by force after...
View ArticleNJSP charge Tick-Tock Diner manager with murder for hire
New Jersey State Police foiled what they said today was a murder-for-hire plot by a manager of Clifton’s popular Tick-Tock Diner against his uncle. Georgios Spyropoulos, 45, planned to have his uncle...
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