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Ridgewood High School prom bus stranded, towed after blocking trains
ONLY ON CVP: A charter bus en route to pick up students attending Ridgewood High School’s senior prom tonight got stuck going up a steep hill near a set of railroad tracks, blocking all commuter trains...
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No injuries after sedan slams into Westwood porch
ONLY ON CVP: A man and his daughter refused medical treatment after their car crashed into a Westwood home tonight. Witnesses told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that the daughter was driving and apparently mistook...
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Ramsey lawyer who assaulted police officer sentenced to sheriff’s road work...
ONLY ON CVP: A Ramsey attorney will spend five weekends on the Bergen County Sheriff’s road work detail for assaulting a police officer last August. Yana Chechelnitsky, 47, pleaded guilty in a...
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Closter woman jailed in hit-and-run knockdown of popular Leonia crossing guard
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: The mother of the late R&B singer Gerald Lavert’s son was taken to the Bergen County Jail today after turning herself in to Leonia police on charges of knocking down a popular...
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Homeless Westwood woman with disabled son spared jail for repeated thefts,...
ONLY ON CVP: An unemployed homeless woman from Westwood with a disabled son and a history of credit card and checkbook thefts avoided prison after promising a judge in Hackensack that she would try to...
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South Hackensack officers released from hospital, driver jailed on $150,000...
UPDATE: A South Hackensack police officer whose SUV was rammed head-on by a fleeing suspect this morning was released from Hackensack University Medical Center this afternoon along with a second...
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Robber with ‘large’ knife takes $250 from Saddle Brook 7-Eleven
ANOTHER CVP EXCLUSIVE: A robber wearing a hoodie and a mask over his face pointed a large knife at a Saddle Brook 7-Eleven clerk before making off with $250 from the cash register, authorities told...
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Two firefighters treated, released after lightning-sparked Tenafly house fire
PHOTOS: Two firefighters were treated — one for burns and other for cuts on his hand — after a two-alarm Tenafly house blaze ignited by a lightning strike this afternoon. Both were later released from...
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Lightning strike smacks Lyndhurst chimney
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A lightning strike knocked pieces of a Lyndhurst chimney to the ground this afternoon. No injuries were reported after the bolt smacked the Second Avenue home in the 400 block...
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Blaze guts Ridgefield Park house
PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Damien Danis (top);Natasha Hopper-Suarez (above) PHOTOS: No injuries were reported in a fire that gutted a Ridgefield Park house early this evening. Bogota,...
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Lyndhurst firefighter extinguishes balcony propane grill blaze at Avalon Bay
ANOTHER CVP SCOOP: A Lyndhurst tenant who used a propane barbecue grill on his second-floor balcony was rescued by a borough firefighter who happened to be nearby when it ignited this afternoon,...
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Elmwood Park police charge Paramus driver with heroin, crack, Narcan
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Elmwood Park police busted a Paramus man who they said had 32 bags of heroin, eight bags of crack and six tablets of Narcan when they stopped him Friday night on Locust Street....
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Deportation will follow prison stretch for West African native in East...
ONLY ON CVP: A native of the Ivory Coast living in Paterson who was sentenced today for his role in an October 2013 East Rutherford home invasion robbery could be freed from prison in under three years...
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Detectives charge Peruvian national, 72, alleged accomplice with dealing...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office and Cliffside Park police arrested a 72-year-old Peruvian national and a borough man who they said were carrying more than...
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2 Englewood charged with pot possession after SWAT team raid
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Englewood men living together in a W. Palisade Avenue apartment raided by a Bergen County Regional SWAT Team, a county narcotic task force and city police last week were...
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Driver hospitalized, ticketed in Hasbrouck Heights crash
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A driver was taken with minor injuries to Hackensack University Medical Center — and a motor vehicle summons — after his sedan flipped on Kipp Avenue in Hasbrouck Heights this...
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Englewood police taser man who bit officers after taking woman, daughter,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Englewood man who was drunk when he took a woman, her daughter and granddaughter on a wild car ride against their wills had to be tasered when he fought with police who...
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North Arlington man who masturbated in front of girls, 12, gets five years in...
CVP EXCLUSIVE: A North Arlington man must spend more than two more years behind bars for masturbating in front of two 12-year-old girls at his home in separate instances in 2013. Richard Grossy, 41, a...
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Woman brought to HUMC wasn’t infected with Ebola, state health officials say
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: State health officials tonight told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that a woman taken to Hackensack University Medical Center tonight was not infected with the Ebola virus. The HUMC emergency...
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Missing Teaneck man, 20, confirmed suicide victim
UDPATE: The body of a missing 20-year-old Teaneck man was pulled from the Hudson River on Friday after he killed himself, authorities confirmed tonight. Timothy Hamlett, whose parents told police he...
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