Saddle Brook police arrest 3 teens in armed deliveryman robbery
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: After tracing the source of a phoned-in order, Saddle Brook police arrested three 18-year-olds from town in connection with the attempted holdup of a deliveryman who ended up...
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Cleaning agent near Fair Lawn school flushed from storm drain
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Someone dumped a cleaning fluid into a storm drain near a Fair Lawn school, which was closed today for the Jewish holiday. Fair Lawn police, Heavy Rescue, and hazardous materials...
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Judge cites dangers of domestic violence in sentencing Dumont killer to 45 years
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Dumont supermarket cashier was sentenced to 45 years in prison today for shooting his ex-girlfriend dead with a semi-automatic rifle, in what both the judge and a Bergen...
View ArticleBogota police seek 3 in mugging
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Bogota detectives were reviewing videos from Queen Anne Road businesses after three assailants on bicycles mugged a 55-year-old man on Central Avenue last night. The victim was...
View ArticleMothers sue Glen Rock Board of Education in wrestlers ‘tea-bagging’ incident
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An alleged incident of “tea-bagging” by two Glen Rock High School wrestlers against a pair of 11-year-olds has sparked a lawsuit against the borough Board of Education by the...
View ArticleWestwood loan officer admits role in $2 million mortgage fraud
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Westwood loan officer admitted today in federal court that he participated in a $2 million mortgage-fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers” to in three states....
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Fourth suspect sought in Bergenfield shootings: ‘armed, dangerous,’...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A manhunt was underway for a fourth suspect in the shooting of two men in Bergenfield during a home invasion on Sunday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli announced this...
View ArticleFair Lawn police crack cupcake car theft
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn woman brought her neighbor cupcakes and then stole his car, police said today. Shannon Henry, 23, “handed over the keys to the stolen vehicle” to police when they...
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Lillian Lee’s red carpet ‘Night of Wonders’ to fund cancer wigs
A red-carpet inaugural fundraising gala is set in Teaneck for a newly-created non-profit organization that provides customized wigs free of charge to women and girls with cancer. There are few higher...
View ArticleVolunteers sought as Super Bowl 2014 ‘host ambassadors’
SHOUT OUT: The NY/NJ Super Bowl Host Committee is assembling a team of more than 15,000 volunteers willing to donate their time as host ambassadors. Volunteers will represent the region by meeting and...
View ArticleFairview police chief running from Ridgewood to 9/11 memorial to remember...
SHOUT OUT: Fairview Police Chief Frank Del Vecchio is set this Wednesday to repeat his 25.6-mile Remembrance Run from Ridgewood to the 9/11 memorial in downtown Manhattan to raise money for the...
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Bergen job fair set for tomorrow
REMINDER: A free Bergen County Job Fair is set for tomorrow 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 ArticleMaywood PD: Man caught fishing cash out of church collection box
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man was caught using a bent coat hanger to fish cash out of the donation box at a Maywood church this morning, police told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. Officers Jason Liaban and Kevin...
View ArticleSaddle Brook church eyes accused Maywood collection box thief
EXCLUSIVE: Officials preparing for the 60th anniversary of St. Philip the Apostle Church in Saddle Brook this Sunday didn’t think much of a coat hanger they found sticking out of the poor box — until...
View ArticleGas leak forces evacuation of Bogota High School
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A gas leak forced the evacuation of Bogota Junior/Senior High School this morning. Half of the students were sent to Bixby Elementary and the rest to Steen after the 4-inch gas...
View ArticleTeaneck man, 20, charged with sexually assaulting Englewood girl, 12
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 5-foot-4-inch, 135-pound Teaneck man awaiting trial on robbery and weapons offenses has been charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl he met in a park. Savon A....
View ArticleFox 5 reporter Charles Leaf rejects deal, headed to trial in child sex abuse...
EXCLUSIVE: Former Emmy-winning Fox 5 investigative reporter Charles Leaf has rejected a plea deal and will go to trial in December on charges of child sex abuse and possessing kiddie porn, following a...
View ArticleBergen Democrat freeholders accuse Donovan, county police of cover-up
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: The four Democrats on the Bergen County Freeholder Board today accused county Executive Kathleen Donovan and the county police of attempting to cover up the department’s role in...
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‘Be courageous’ principal tells Woodcliff Lake middle schoolers at 9/11...
A TRIBUTE: “Be courageous every day,” Robert Lombardy, principal of Woodcliff Lake’s middle school, told a group of pupils who this morning created goodie bags to send to U.S. troops as their way of...
View ArticleFormer Bergen Dem chairman Joe Ferriero indicted by federal grand jury
A federal grand jury today indicted Joseph A. Ferriero, the former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization, on charges of soliciting bribes and extorting payments as part of a...
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