Driver, daughter, 8, avoid injury in Route 17 flying ice crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A driver and his 8-year-old daughter escaped serious injury after a piece of ice that flew off a tractor-trailer hit their windshield on Route 17 just before noon today. The...
View ArticleGarfield man wins $292,935 — twice — with Jersey Cash 5 lottery tickets
SHOUT OUT: A Garfield man’s big Jersey Cash 5 win was more than twice as nice. John Roland said he bought two separate tickets at his usual spot in town — River Drive Bar & Liquor (see map, above)...
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Judge refuses to dismiss elderly abuse charges against Lodi fire marshal
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A judge in Hackensack today rejected a bid by Lodi Fire Marshal Paul Wanco to have charges of abusing his elderly mother dismissed, setting the stage for either a plea bargain...
View Article12 years in fed pen for Palisades Park ringleader in massive Asian ID theft ring
SPECIAL REPORT: What began as a murder investigation out of Tenafly culminated in the federal sentencing today of the admitted Palisades Park kingpin of a “crime superstore” to 12 years in federal...
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Drugged, unlicensed hit-and-run driver had daughter, 2, in car, Mahwah police...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An unlicensed, convicted DUI motorist who was drugged when he fled the scene of a crash in Mahwah this morning had his 2½-year-old daughter in the car, authorities said this...
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Judges deny bail reductions in Edgewater luxury high-rise home invasion
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Judges in different Hackensack courtrooms today both refused to cut the $1 million bails for two of four defendants charged in the home invasion robbery of developer Fred Daibes...
View ArticleEx-bank teller, 20, charged with taking $6,600 from elderly Wallington customer
EXCLUSIVE: A 20-year-old bank teller who abruptly left her job was charged by Wallington police today with stealing $6,600 from an 83-year-old customer’s account. The elderly victim discovered the...
View ArticleEmail bomb threat clears Tenafly Middle School
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bomb-sniffing dogs searched the Tenafly Middle School late this afternoon after a staff member received an anonymous email threat, police confirmed tonight. “The contents of the...
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Charles Leaf protests innocence on stand, blasts nanny
SPECIAL REPORT: An impassioned Charles Leaf, testifying this morning in his own defense, emphatically denied sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl — and accused the state’s key witness in the case of...
View ArticleBergen County Police officer finds synth pot, gas mask bong, in Palisades...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two Jersey City teens who Bergen County Police said they caught with synthetic marijuana following a traffic stop on Route 46 in Palisades Park last night were being held on...
View ArticleWyckoff man threatened to shoot ‘entire family,’ Mahwah police charge
A 25-year-old Wyckoff man scuffled with his uncle, then later lifted his shirt to expose a Glock handgun in his waistband and threatened to shoot him and his entire family, police said. Mahwah police,...
View ArticleStubborn fire destroys New Milford duplex
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No immediate injuries were reported in a stubborn fire that blew through a New Milford duplex tonight. “As far as we know, all the residents got out,” Police Chief Frank...
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Leaf emphatically denies child sex assault charges, says father-in-law had...
SPECIAL REPORT: A prosecutor hit former Fox 5 reporter Charles Leaf hard yesterday in his child sex abuse trial, but the Emmy-winning investigator remained steadfast. “Mr. Leaf, you said you love the...
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Unoccupied church hall roof collapses in Ridgefield Park
STORM-RELATED INCIDENTS: The roof collapsed this morning of an unoccupied church hall at St. Mary’s in Ridgefield Park, which previously had been declared unsafe, OEM Director Douglas Hansen said....
View ArticleEnglewood domestic violence: One woman hit with shovel by boyfriend, 74,...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A trio of domestic violence incidents in Englewood this weekend led to the arrests of a 74-year-old man who police said hit his 49-year-old girlfriend with a snow shovel before...
View ArticleHarrington Park man caught in River Vale faces five years for Jersey City...
UPDATE: A Harrington Park man agreed to a five-year prison sentence Friday for the hit-and-run death of a New York City man in Jersey City four years ago. John Dineen, 26, admitted in Superior Court in...
View ArticlePIP police make arrests for five ounces of cocaine, dozen bags of heroin
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Nanuet driver stopped by Palisades Interstate Parkway police for rolling through a stop sign at a parkway rest stop had several bags of heroin in his underwear, authorities...
View ArticleRutherford woman arrested for grabbing officer’s gun during domestic dispute
ONLY ON CVP: A Rutherford woman tried grabbing a police officer’s gun and had to be wrestled to the floor during a domestic dispute, authorities said today. There was yelling and screaming inside when...
View ArticleFormer deejay Dave Herman indicted on charges of bringing girl, 7, to St....
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Former WNEW-FM DJ Dave Herman was indicted by a federal grand jury in Newark today on charges of planning to bring a 7-year-old Bergen County girl who turned out to be a...
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Defendant in Bergenfield drug deal shootings gets bail lowered
EXCLUSIVE: One of four men charged in the shooting of an accused drug dealer and another man during a Bergenfield home invasion convinced a judge today to lower his bail to $500,000 cash from $650,000....
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