Rape trial of former Palisades Park mob associate begins
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A woman who’d just been released from the hospital following a car crash didn’t scream because her children would hear her when former mob associate Ken Wedra of Palisades Park...
View ArticleProsecutor: No foul play suspected in death of Ramsey fire victim
ONLY ON CVP: A 47-year-old Ramsey woman whose body was pulled from a pre-dawn fire today apparently was already dead when she was found, possibly because the blaze had been smoldering last night before...
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PIP police radio upgrades continue with portables donated to area emergency...
SHOUT OUT: The switch by Palisades Interstate Parkway police to a new radio system continued with the donation of several VHF portables to area emergency responders. With the PIP department’s switch to...
View ArticleRidgewood postal carrier nabbed by feds in multi-million-dollar refund check...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Ridgewood postal carrier was among seven people charged by federal authorities this morning with a multi-million dollar scheme to collect bogus tax refunds from the...
View ArticleMahwah traffic stop: 2 handguns with hollow-point bullets
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A routine traffic stop by a Mahwah police officer turned up a pair of high-power handguns loaded with hollow-nosed, Chief James Batelli said early this afternoon. Officer David Vega...
View ArticleGarfield man charged with sexually assaulting girl, 11
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A witness alerted an 11-year-old girl’s mother than the youngster was being sexually assaulted, and Garfield police quickly took a suspect into custody, Bergen County Prosecutor...
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Justice Dept. settles with DeCamp Bus Lines over treatment of disabled...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey-based DeCamp Bus Lines Inc. will no longer be able to require that passengers with disabilities provide 48 hours of advance noticeto secure a wheelchair-accessible...
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Driver, 22, fails sobriety test after Ridgewood crash
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A 22-year-old Fair Lawn driver whose car careened from one side of the street to the other, mounted a curb and nearly struck an office sign in Ridgewood was taken into custody...
View ArticleEnglewood sex assault trial to begin after accused rejects plea deal
EXCLUSIVE: An Englewood man charged with sexually assaulting the same woman twice in the span of five weeks rejected an 11th-hour attempt today by prosecutors in a Hackensack courtroom to secure a plea...
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Maywood police nab Paterson couple in bank robbery spree
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Maywood police last night arrested a Paterson couple who they said confessed to robbing five area TD Bank branches of more than $10,000 in just over seven weeks. In four of the...
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Prosecutor tells horrifying tale of wife’s ordeal in South Hackensack...
EXCLUSIVE: Steven Spalnick’s wife lay in a fetal position on the floor of their South Hackensack bathroom, cradling her infant son, her nose gushing blood. It was Christmas night 2011 and she’d been...
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Body of missing Englewood man found in Hudson River
Cover photos on loved ones’ Facebook pages went black following the news that the body of an Englewood man who’d been reported missing three weeks ago was found in the Hudson River near 158th Street....
View ArticleRifle casings found at headstone of North Arlington officer’s son
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: North Arlington police are investigating the alarming discovery of two rifle shell casings at the base of a headstone for a borough police officer’s son. Police were contacted...
View ArticleFormer Emerson executive, Bergen biotech companies ordered to pay more than...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former executive from Emerson under indictment for embezzlement and the two biotechnology/medical device companies he ran in Allendale have been ordered to pay $10.2 million...
View ArticleNorth Arlington man inappropriately touched Lyndhurst girl, prosecutor charges
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An auto dealership employee from North Arlington was arrested and charged with inappropriately touching a 13-year-old Lyndhurst girl a year or so ago. Juan C. Collado, who turns...
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Pregnant mom, 2-year-old daughter hospitalized after River Vale crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 2-year-old girl was flown by helicopter to Hackensack Unversity Medical Center after a serious crash in River Vale this morning that sent her pregnant mother to the hospital...
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Hillsdale, River Vale police offer ‘Safe Banks, Safe Businesses’ program
SHOUT OUT: Holdups are just one situation police from Hillsdale and River Vale will discuss with interested bank employees and law enforcement officers from area towns during a special “Safe Banks,...
View ArticleGun bill scorecard: Track New Jersey’s gun control legislation
(via NJ.com)Tony Kurdzuk/The Star-Ledger After a rocky start, the Assembly and Senate are now working together on gun control legislation. Here’s where the gun bills stand. Passed by both houses and...
View ArticleElmwood Park loan officer admits taking bribes
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A former Elmwood Park bank officer admitted in federal court today to taking more than $65,000 in bribes to help customers get low-interest refinancing loans without preparyment...
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Fairview police arrest two in pot bust, one in break-ins
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Fairview police today said an anonymous tip led to the arrests of two borough brothers on pot-selling and possession charges after more than a pound of marijuana was found in...
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