Meadowlands Chamber, Donovan, OEM host disaster preparedness conference
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The Meadowlands Regional Chamber is hosting a disaster preparedness conference at Bergen Community College next week to prepare a sustainability plan that will allow businesses...
View ArticleWashington Township driver, 76, smashes car into neighbor’s house
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 76-year-old Washington Township man backed his car out of his driveway this morning and kept going — all the way across the street, up his neighbor’s driveway and into the...
View ArticleThree injured in Bogota crash
Three people were reported injured in a crash that left one of the vehicles on its side, its driver trapped. Firefighters had to cut open a Nissan that was rammed by a Subaru hatchback on Palisade...
View ArticleDay camp bus crash in Old Tappan injures 6 children, pickup driver
UPDATE: No children were seriously hurt when a school bus from an Old Tappan day camp rear-ended a pickup truck on Orangeburg Road late this afternoon. However, six children who complained of various...
View ArticleCliffside Park director contends for video of year in Canada peoples choice...
SHOUT OUT: A Cliffside Park director whose music videos have been seen internationally has been nominated for a peoples choice award in Canada. “I’m really honored and glad that the message of love...
View ArticleFeds charge woman with threatening letters to U.S. Supreme Court, Rutgers,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Irvington woman was arrested at her home this morning by members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force on charges of mailing letters threatening bodily harm to the U.S....
View ArticleBergen County lawman John J. Frank: a remembrance
A TRIBUTE: He was known as a cop’s cop: On Thursday, a memorial Mass will be celebrated for John J. Frank III, a former Wood-Ridge police chief, narcotics unit director for the Bergen County...
View ArticleBergenfield police arrest man with machete in assault on mother
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergenfield police chased a man accused of attacking his mother into the basement of her home, where they said he threw a machete at them before surrendering at gunpoint. Police...
View ArticleAlert Fair Lawn resident leads police to car burglary arrests
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn resident who quickly called in a report of two suspicious bicycle riders led police to a 19-year-old man and 14-year-old boy, both of Paterson, who they said were...
View ArticlePolice: Fort Lee disabilities advocate, 64, pinned on scooter after going...
A 64-year-old Fort Lee woman known in town for her advocacy efforts on behalf of those with disabilities struck and pinned in her wheelchair last night by a sedan driven by a 70-year-old motorist,...
View ArticleFederal trial beginning for North Bergen man accused of molesting woman on...
A Turkish national who lives in North Bergen and runs a service company that includes the St. Regis Hotel in New York and El Mexicano restaurant in Paterson among its affiliations could face life in...
View ArticleChild, 2, left alone in smoke-filled apartment, mother arrested hours later
BEYOND BERGEN: A Roselle Park woman was charged with child endangerment after she left her 2-year-old daughter home alone today in an apartment with a lighted stove and a plugged-in iron — both of...
View ArticleShots fired in Teaneck, police seek suspects
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Teaneck police investigating a report of shots fired found shell casings and were still looking for suspects tonight, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Witnesses reported seeing...
View ArticleHackensack officials violated OPRA, must surrender redevelopment records,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Ruling that Hackensack officials violated New Jersey’s Open Public Meetings Law through “delay and obstruction,” a Bergen County judge ordered them to turn over documents...
View ArticleWood-Ridge detective breaks up fight, finds cocaine, paraphernalia
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Wood-Ridge police detective who stepped in to break up a fight between a couple found the man carrying cocaine, a scale and 120 small bags used to package the drug, police...
View ArticleDirty doctors, organized crime fueling prescription drug and heroin abuse in...
(via NJ.com) The rapid rise of prescription drug and heroin abuse in New Jersey is being fueled by shady, black-market entrepreneurs and corrupt doctors, some of whom have ties to organized crime, the...
View ArticleTeaneck police charge two in shooting
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two New York men are charged with trying to kill a man in a shooting last night that followed a chase that began on Route 4, Teaneck police said this morning. The target of the...
View ArticleHasbrouck Heights officer hospitalized after Route 17 crash
EXCLUSIVE: A Hasbrouck Heights police officer involved in a crash on Route 17 last night was hospitalized overnight for observation but appeared fine — except for a severe cut on his head, police told...
View ArticleFrightened Little Ferry parents seek public’s help finding missing daughter, 15
HAVE YOU SEEN HER? A distraught mother from Little Ferry is hoping that someone finds her 15-year-old adopted daughter, who ran away from a Passaic County home for girls Sunday night and needs...
View ArticleConvicted pervert touched woman on PATH train, Port Authority police say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An ex-con from Jersey City was arrested yesterday by Port Authority police in connection with a sex crime at the Newport PATH station for the second time in 14 months,...
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