Ridgewood Touch-a-Truck gives youngsters hands-on with emergency services
SHOUT OUT: Ridgewood emergency service and public works employees treated youngsters today to hands-on adventure, sitting them in vehicles that touch their lives and giving them a taste of what it’s...
View ArticleBergen County memorial ‘Blue Mass’ honoring fallen police set for next week
The Bergen County Police Chief’s Association’s second Annual Law Enforcement Blue Mass honoring New Jersey fallen officers is scheduled for 9 a.m. next Wednesday at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in...
View ArticleA new Doomsday Diaries dawns at bergenPAC Friday
IN TUNE: Some sweet things have happened while Jay and Sean Sproviero, the teenaged founding brothers of Doomsday Diaries, were making other plans. One of them is opening this Friday for Zebra at...
View ArticleProsecutor calls Garfield florist’s partner ‘cold, calculating hunter’
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: “He is so cold, so calculating, that he sits and waits — like any good hunter would,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer told jurors during closing...
View ArticleWood-Ridge bail poster has warrants of his own
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A Wood-Ridge man was arrested after he showed up at police headquarters to bail out his friend and officers discovered warrants for his arrest — as well as the fact that he was...
View ArticleTeaneck police assist major Pennsylvania drug sweep
A major drug sweep based in southeast Pennsylvania stretched to Teaneck, where township police helped arrest a suspect after watching an East Maple Street residence for nearly three hours. Eric Feliz...
View ArticleThieves who ran down Chinese tourist at Lyndhurst hotel get prison, one to be...
EXCLUSIVE: Two members of a Queens-based theft ring were sentenced today to several years in state prison in connection with a theft in which they ran down a woman after snatching her purse outside a...
View ArticleGarfield florist convicted or murdering partner
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Jurors in Hackensack today convicted Ridgefield flower salesman Thomas Battinelli of shooting his business partner in the back of the head as he sat at his desk in their...
View ArticlePopular Hasbrouck Heights street fair tomorrow
SHOUT OUT: The 5th annual Hasbrouck Heights Street Fair, featuring food, amusements and music, is tomorrow (Sunday) along Boulevard between Kipp and Raymond avenues. Always a huge draw, the sprawling...
View ArticleDriver, passenger walk away after tractor-trailer crushes BMW on Route 4
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A driver and his passenger got out safely tonight after their BMW got wedged below a tractor-trailer just off Route 4 in Paramus. The crash occurred about 7:40 p.m. in the...
View ArticleRutherford woman, 52, sustains serious leg injury after pickup spins in...
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A 52-year-old motorist from Rutherford sustained a serious leg injury Sunday when a pickup truck headed in the opposite direction spun out of control into oncoming traffic and...
View ArticleLooks like ‘historic’ Teaneck tree is coming down — at last
WHAT WE THINK: Finally, the silliness ends and a dangerous red oak in Teaneck comes closer to coming down. Last August, the Teaneck Council wisely refused to designate the tree an historic site. But...
View ArticleMaywood officer among those who rode in Police Unity Tour
SHOUT OUT: As one of dozens of law enforcement officers from the area who participated in the Police Unity Tour — bicycling to Washington, D.C. from New Jersey — Maywood Police Officer Walter Moussou...
View ArticleDrunk, combative Wyckoff man sends police sergeant to hospital
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 35-year-old Wyckoff man sent a borough police sergeant to the hospital following a domestic incident. Christopher C. Frawley was “highly intoxicated and acting aggressively”...
View ArticleProsecutor to seek 10 more years for murderer who buried girlfriend in...
ONLY ON CVP: A New York man convicted of sealing his girlfriend’s body in the basement steps of a Teaneck building after killing her in his Harlem apartment in 2008 is going to trial on July 16....
View ArticleHazmat units clean up acid from container found on Franklin Turnpike in...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hazardous materials units from Bergen County and Mahwah removed five gallons of an acid used for cleaning concrete that leaked from a container apparently dropped or left in the...
View ArticleWestwood cop, Bergen sheriff’s officer help make NYC trip special for...
A MAGICAL WEEKEND: Whirlwind isn’t the word for the weekend that police from Bergen County – particularly a Westwood patrolman and county sheriff’s officer — showed Nathan Norman, a 6-year-old cancer...
View ArticleFormer Wyckoff pastor in child sex case arrested for violating agreement not...
Detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit today arrested a former Wyckoff assistant pastor who’d been allowed to remain a priest on charges of violating an...
View ArticleSpecial program at Saddle Brook High on preventing child suicide and bullying
TONIGHT: A heartbroken father determined to help others will talk about the suicide of his 13-year-old son tonight at a special suicide and bullying prevention program at Saddle Brook High School. The...
View ArticleOklahoma recovery: How you can help
HOW YOU CAN HELP: If you’re unsure how or where to give to help those devastated by the Oklahoma tornado, the Jersey Shore-based group created to help first responders after Hurricane Sandy is...
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