Mahwah police: Women caught with $10,000 in stolen pet supplies
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Connecticut women who authorities said were operating a ring that fenced pet products stolen from a variety of stores in several states were arrested by Mahwah police last...
View ArticleParamus Park mall carousel closes
EXCLUSIVE: After 37 years, the Golden Horse Carousel at Paramus Park stopped spinning today. “My daughter and I took our last four rides tonight. Then they shut the place down,” Laura Hofsommer of...
View ArticleWallington gunman pleads guilty to attempted murder
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Garfield man tracked to Florida by Bergen County prosecutor’s detectives and charged in a near-deadly shooting in Wallington pleaded guilty this afternoon to attempted murder...
View ArticleBergen sheriff’s officer claims being ‘distracted, intimidated’ by county...
SPECIAL REPORT: A Bergen County Sheriff’s officer said a pair of county police officers “distracted and intimidated” him, asking a series of unnecessary questions about his job, after he stopped...
View ArticlePolice: Wood-Ridge woman killed in Old Bridge wrong-way crash drank at...
(via NJ.com) A Wood-Ridge woman killed while driving the wrong way on Route 18 Friday had been drinking with a friend and drove off in a car that didn’t belong to her, according to police. Ashley Sara...
View ArticleNorth Bergen teacher’s online radio show drawing a crowd
IN TUNE: Steve Ludwig might seem the average North Bergen schoolteacher, but he’s also been indulging his enthusiasm for music and pop culture by hosting his own online radio show. The live stream...
View ArticleBergen job fair set for Sept. 10
SHOUT OUT: A free Bergen County Job Fair is set for Tuesday, Sept. 10 at Bergen Community College. More than 100 employeres are expected to attend the event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the BCC...
View ArticleRidgefield Park airline employee charged with inappropriate sexual contact...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Authorities have charged a 49-year-old Ridgefield Park man with having “inappropriate sexual conduct” with a 13-year-old boy that they said he invited to his house. Alex Castro...
View ArticleKPMG workers help restore Little Ferry school damaged by Sandy
SHOUT OUT: Workers from KPMG have put the finishing touches on the rehabilitation of Little Ferry’s Washington School, devastated by Hurricane Sandy, in time for classes next month and the 100th...
View ArticleProspects ‘very good’ for Cliffside Park Mayor Calabrese after stroke
Doctors consider the prospects for Cliffside Park Mayor Gerald “Gerry” Calabrese’s very good for surviving a mild stroke he sustained yesterday while in Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, a...
View ArticleFair Lawn police: Driver, passenger both fail DWI tests after fleeing crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A drunk driver switched places with his passenger after leaving the scene of accident — only there was one problem: He was drunk, too, Fair Lawn police said. So both ended up...
View ArticleTwo new Fair Lawn police officers sworn in
SHOUT OUTS: The Fair Lawn Police Department welcomed two new officers tonight, one of whom returned to duty with the borough and both of whom came from the Paterson force. Loved ones, friends and both...
View ArticleMan accused of ‘electronically stalking’ Mahwah woman enters special court...
EXCLUSIVE: A Brooklyn man accused of electronically stalking a Mahwah woman has been admitted to a special program that will remove the charges against him if he meets certain conditions, CLIFFVIEW...
View ArticleRidgefield police: busy month
Here’s a month’s worth of activity from Ridgefield Police: On 8-17-13 at 105am, a resident of Walnut street reported an unknown male was in the rear of her home and fled towards Ridgefield Memorial...
View ArticleAttic tenant charged with sexually assaulting Englewood boy, 14
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An unemployed Guatemalan national living in an attic apartment is charged with having sex with a 14-year-old boy. Saul Sanchez-Hernandez, 44, was being held on $402,000 bail in...
View ArticleParamus Park owners: Please save carousel
After reading in CLIFFVIEW PILOT about the closing of the Golden Carousel at Paramus Park, Casey Marie Hittel of New Milford wrote to the owners: To Whom It May Concern, I wish to address the removal...
View ArticleWoman in domestic call steals police car
BEYOND BERGEN: A combative woman who was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser following a domestic dispute kicked out the partition window, climbed into the front and drove off, police...
View ArticleSaddle Brook officer, firefighter breaks leg in Fair Lawn motorcycle crash
EXCLUSIVE: A Saddle Brook police officer and assistant fire chief was recovering from surgery after he broke his leg during a pre-dawn motorcycle crash on Route 208 in Fair Lawn. Officer Doug...
View ArticleLife in prison for Ridgefield florist in partner’s murder
BREAKING NEWS: A Ridgefield flower salesman was sentenced to life in prison today for killing his business partner by shooting him in the back of the head as he sat at his desk — something the...
View ArticlePolice: Wood-Ridge man had guns, tomahawks, knives, bows, 10,000 ammo rounds,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man who Wood-Ridge police said told them he was being followed and videotaped had a collection of guns, knives and dozens of other weapons — including tomahawks, spears and...
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