Gas leak stops trains through Westwood, ‘restricted’ service resumed
TRANSIT UPDATE: Train service has resumed at restricted speed on the Pascack Valley Line through Westwood after being halted for a little over a half-hour by a gas leak that local police said was...
View ArticleParamus police find heroin, pot in stolen car stop
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Several packages of heroin labeled “Godfather” and assorted amounts of pot were found after a license-plate reader led Paramus police to a stolen car on Route 4. Officers Keith...
View ArticleFormer Hackensack man faces year in jail for smoking pot with career burglars
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A former Hackensack man is facing up to 364 days in the Bergen County Jail after inviting a pair of convicted burglars over to his place to smoke some pot. Kenard Gowdy, 47, of...
View ArticleThird man charged in New Milford shooting death
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A third man has been charged in the “reckless” accidental shooting death of a 22-year-old New Milford man over the weekend. Nicholas Questal, also 22, a citizen of Trinidad and...
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All safe in Fair Lawn rollover
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: All members of a family traveling with young children escaped injury this afternoon after a their SUV rolled on its side at the intersection of Willow Street and Lyncrest Avenue...
View ArticleEnglewood police: ‘Superman reject’ nightclub burglar caught after taking $4,000
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Three days after being fired from a popular Englewood nightclub, a 20-year-old undocumented alien broke in and took more than $4,000 in cash from the register, police said this...
View ArticleDemarest mayor: ‘Anniversary present’ bench removed from park will be replaced
ONLY ON CVP: A man who was given a swing bench where he proposed to his wife 10 years ago is replacing it with a new one, said Demarest Mayor Raymond J. Cywinski, who has drawn criticism for ordering...
View ArticleGarfield police: Bronx man went shopping with eight bogus credit cards
ONLY ON CVP: A Bronx man grabbed by Garfield police for using a bogus credit card was carrying eight of them altogether — all embossed with his name, authorities said. A Walmart employee called police...
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Authorities trace gun in Hackensack police shootout, make 5 arrests
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office have arrested and charged five people in connection with an illegal gun used by a man who fired against Hackensack police...
View ArticleBogota police: Pair used stolen IDs to make credit, gift cards
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bogota police have already received calls from colleagues as far as Trenton and Mount Olive after arresting two men yesterday who they said created credit cards and gift cards...
View ArticleFinancial advisor admits stealing $1.35 million from parents
A former Morris County financial advisor admitted in a Hackensack courtroom that he swindled his parents out of more than $1.35 million — a theft that authorities called “as offensive as it is...
View ArticleThird man in New Milford shooting death sold gun, prosecutor says
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The third man charged in the shooting death of a New Milford man over the weekend sold the .9mm gun to the man accused of pulling the trigger, Bergen County Prosecutor John...
View ArticleNew Milford bomb-threat caller was on a bender, police say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A massive emergency response in New Milford today was prompted by a 53-year-old borough man who was heavily intoxicated when he left a series of rambling voice mails about a...
View ArticleMaywood citizen inspired by ‘National Night Out’ leads police to tools thief
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A concerned citizen took National Night Out Against Crime to heart, leading Maywood police early this morning to a man who they said nearly made off with a shopping lot full of...
View ArticleCar crashes through Northvale Applebee’s curbside section
Two people reportedly were injured when their car slammed into an Applebee’s restaurant near the New York State line in Northvale last night. Unconfirmed reports are that the female driver blacked out...
View ArticleNew craft distillery law allows made-in-Jersey booze
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: New Jersey craft distilleries are officially legal, now that regulations written after the U.S. repealed Prohibition have been eased. Gov. Christie signed the measure into law,...
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Hackensack PBA “Cowboy Up for Autism Speaks”: bull riding, monster trucks, more
SHOUT OUT: Hackensack PBA Local 9 is hosting an all-day country festival — with music, rides, monster trucks and a live professional bull-riding competition — to help raise money to research and treat...
View ArticleA show at Maxwell’s tonight?
Maxwell’s may not have seen — er, heard — its last performance. Over in Sinatra Park, just down the road from Maxwell’s, Swingadelic is scheduled to perform tonight. However: “In case of rain, the...
View ArticleAccused conspirator of Lyndhurst woman admits role in mortgage fraud
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A paralegal today admitted participating in a long-running, large-scale mortgage fraud scheme with a Lyndhurst woman that defrauded financial institutions of at least $2...
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Two caught, three sought, in Englewood Cliffs home invasion, chase, crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two men were arrested, three more were being sought, and a gun, cash and jewelry were recovered from a rental car that crashed on Route 4 in Englewood following a home invasion...
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