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Tree topples onto Westwood house in sudden, violent storm
EXCLUSIVE: Tonight’s sudden and violent storm knocked out power throughout the area, downed lines and trees — one of which toppled onto a Westwood house. A father, mother and daughter escaped unharmed...
View ArticleBergen County Police officer credited with saving life of driver in Route 4...
Doctors said a Bergen County Police officer saved the life of a driver whose car slammed into the back of a tow truck on Route 4 in Teaneck by climbing through the heavily damaged windshield and...
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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...
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Washington 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...
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Three 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 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 man accused of throwing machete at police
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 ArticleFocus on drug-related crimes leads to Ridgefield arrests
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A focus on drug-related crimes has led to 28 arrests by Ridgefield police the last 18 months. A sampling of some recent busts, from Capt. Rich Besser: June 28: Patrolman Daniel...
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 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 ArticleDriver survives Glen Rock rollover
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A motorist sustained what police said were non-life-threatening injuries and was charged with driving under the influence in a rollover early this morning. The accident...
View ArticleRescuers find suicidal man, 72, on Ramapo Reservation after 5½-hour search
UPDATE: Concerns that a suicidal 72-year-old Mahwah man might be carrying a handgun brought police to the Ramapo Reservation, where they found him exhausted, dazed, but safe after a 5½-hour search that...
View ArticleBergen Office for Children director honored for commitment, dedication
SHOUT OUT: The New Jersey Association of Child Care Resources and Referral Agencies recently honored Phyllis Strohmeyer, the director of Bergen County’s Office for Children, with its 2013 Emerging...
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Rockland man struck in Ridgewood by swerving car, other driver flees
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A Rockland County man standing on a corner in Ridgewood was seriously injured when he was struck and thrown nearly 20 feet by a car whose driver apparently swerved to avoid...
View ArticleGlen Rock police bust two N.Y. men with $10,000 worth of heroin
Glen Rock police arrested two men from northwest New York State who they said had more than 10 bricks of heroin that go for roughly $1,000 each on the street in their car. Officer Michael Trover...
View ArticleCarjackers crash in Franklin Lakes, flee into woods
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: One suspect was immediately taken into custody and three others took off on foot after a carjacked vehicle crashed in Franklin Lakes during a late night/early morning police...
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