Ridgewood High School student reports knife assault by robber
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Police were looking for a man in his 20s who a Ridgewood High School student said slashed him with a knife while stealing his backpack late this morning. The student told police...
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Was woman in ski mask looking to rob Englewood bank?
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A woman in a ski mask, gloves and a tight leather jacket cased an Englewood bank today and then rushed out before authorities could be notified, police said tonight. “She never...
View ArticleFire at Valentino’s in Park Ridge investigated
UPDATE: Bergen County arson investigators were at the scene tonight of a three-alarm fire at a Park Ridge Italian restaurant. The fire at Valentino’s broke out in the basement just before 4 o’clock and...
View ArticleEnglewood police: Husband savagely beats wife, barefoot son runs half-mile to...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: After laying in wait, an Englewood man punched his wife, tried to strangle her with a power cord, beat her with a laptop and threatened her with a knife, sending her 11-year-old...
View ArticleDWI in Bergenfield for West New York driver asleep at wheel
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bergenfield police said they found a West New York man drunk and asleep in his car, with two wheels on the sidewalk and the lights on, in the middle of the night. Officer David...
View ArticleRecycling creates jobs, NJ environmental commissioner says
AN NJ COMMISSIONER WRITES: After dipping for many years, the state’s recycling rate has been rising again — but New Jersey can do better, says Jane Kozinski, NJDEP Assistant Commissioner for...
View ArticleBergen County victim: How a neighborhood burglar changed our world
A BURGLARY VICTIM WRITES: After three comfortable decades in our Bergen County home, any sense of safety was gone the instant my partner found the broken glass on our kitchen floor after taking our son...
View ArticleParamus DPW worker clipped by SUV
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Paramus DPW worker’s left foot was hit by a passing SUV as he got out of his garbage truck this morning, sending him to the hospital with an ankle injury, police said. Homer...
View ArticleCon man gets five years in prison for ripping off Sandy victims
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a con artist from Metuchen was sentenced to five years in state prison today for preying on victims of Superstorm Sandy....
View ArticleFort Lee man admits role in largest U.S. tax-fraud case thanks to Bergen PD...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fort Lee man has admitted his role in what the government said was one of the nation’s largest, longest-running frauds of its kind — all sparked by a pair of arrests by...
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Neighbor admits raping Cliffside Park girls after break-in as mother slept
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park man today admitted raping two pre-teen sisters, biting one of them on the back, after breaking into their home. Serkan Seyrek — who will be sentenced to 28...
View ArticleWestwood couple face 30 years in federal prison after mortgage fraud conviction
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A husband and wife from Westwood were both convicted today by federal jurors in Newark after two hours of deliberations for scamming lending companies out of $3.4 million in...
View ArticleJudge tells deadlocked jury in Wallington assault trial to try again tomorrow
EXCLUSIVE: A judge in Hackensack asked deadlocked jurors this afternoon to return tomorrow and “work together” to reach a verdict in the case of a self-styled Santeria priest accused of breaking into...
View ArticleMahwah traffic stop yields stolen handgun, pot, cash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Mahwah police said they found a stolen 9mm handgun and a small amount of marijuana during a Route 287 traffic stop in the car of a purported Bloods gang member from Pennsylvania...
View ArticlePower knocked out to 30,000 in Hudson, East Bergen
UPDATE: Power was restored to nearly 30,000 PSE&G customers in Hudson and Bergen counties tonight following a failure at a switching station roughly 90 minutes earlier that a spokeswoman said...
View ArticleRidgewood High School knife attack report bogus, police say
UPDATE: It turns out a report by a Ridgewood High School student that he was slashed by a robber in broad daylight on a busy village street was bogus, authorities confirmed last night. “After an...
View ArticleParamus Police Officer Vincent M. Brock remembered 20 years after death
SALUTE: Twenty years ago today, Paramus Police Officer Vincent M. Brock was killed in a car crash responding to a bogus 911 call of a shooting at the Garden State Plaza. Today, flags at Paramus Police...
View ArticleJudge: $2 million bail ‘remains the same’ for Hackensack man charged with...
A judge this morning refused to lower the $2 million bail for a Hackensack man charged with beating his wife to death. “The bail remains the same” for 64-year-old Thomas Fabbricatore, Presiding...
View ArticleProsecutors: Ex-boyfriend accused of killing Waldwick woman also raped her
UPDATE: Prosecutors today said a Midland Park man accused of killing his former girlfriend last month after breaking into her parents’ Waldwick home as their 8-month-old son lay in a bassinet nearby...
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Garfield Albanian immigrant gets 13 years for shooting man in chest after bar...
EXCLUSIVE: An Albanian immigrant from Garfield who went home and got a gun after a bar fight was sentenced to 13 years in state prison today for nearly killing the other man with a bullet in the chest....
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