‘Dusty’s Law’ protecting service animals a step from reality in NJ
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A long-awaited bill that would establish criminal penalties for killing, maiming or interfering with a service dog came closer to becoming “Dusty’s Law” following final approval...
View ArticleEdgewater high-rise home invasion robbery: Who is Alexander Suarez?
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A picture has finally begun to emerge emerging of a 20-year-old Edgewater man quietly arrested and charged in the luxury high-rise home invasion robbery of developer Fred...
View ArticleTrain hits car in Elmwood Park
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: No one was injured when an NJ Transit train struck a vehicle at an Elmwood Park grade crossing tonight, a spokesman said. Investigators have yet to determine why the 54-year-old...
View ArticleCar hits Fair Lawn Raquet Club building
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A small sedan slammed head-on into an exterior brick wall of the Fair Lawn Racquet Club before midnight. The driver was taken by ambulance to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood...
View ArticleTree outside Hillsdale mayor’s house crashes into neighbor’s home
EXCLUSIVE: A large tree outside Hillsdale Mayor Max Arnowitz house fell across the road last night, smashing into the home of a 57-year-old neighbor — who didn’t hear it. Nancy Kovar was asleep in a...
View ArticleGun goes off, bullet goes through Lyndhurst man’s arm
EXCLUSIVE: A Lyndhurst man was cleaning his legally registered handgun last night when it went off, sending a bullet through both his arm and the couch he was sitting on before smashing a glass display...
View ArticleNorwood police: Cliffside Park man who punched woman at church tried to run...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park man tried to run over two people who chased him into a Norwood church parking lot after he punched a woman, police said. Behrang Darian, 29, attacked the woman...
View ArticleParamus restaurant worker from Lodi charged with molesting woman, 19
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Lodi man is charged with molesting a 19-year-old woman in her car in a lot near the Paramus restaurant where he works. Akram G. Tadros, 39, was arrested yesterday by members...
View ArticleGirl, 10, father struck by mini-van at Fair Lawn intersection
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 10-year-old girl and her father sustained injuries that police said weren’t considered life-threatening when they were struck by a mini-van at a Fair Lawn intersection...
View ArticleNJ Statehouse flags to fly at half-staff for Cliffside Park Firefighter Cosmo...
TRIBUTE: Flags at the New Jersey Statehouse building in Trenton will be flown at half-staff for a week, beginning tomorrow, in honor of Cosmo Paris, a popular Cliffside Park firefighter who died from a...
View ArticleLeonia, Englewood police nab couple in 7-Eleven holdup
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Leonia police officer this morning grabbed a Staten Island man running from an Englewood 7Eleven holdup “with two fists full of cash,” authorities said tonight. A frightened...
View ArticleMahwah baby formula bandits cold-cock supermarket cart collector, flee, crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A shoplifting that turned into a baby formula robbery ended with a supermarket cart collector hospitalized and three Queens men in custody following a chase that ended off...
View ArticleViolent felon terrorizes Englewood homeowner, caught after foot chase
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Bronx ex-con with a 20-year violent rap sheet pushed his way in and terrorized an Englewood home female homeowner this afternoon, then fled with cash, jewelry and other...
View ArticleWWII fighter pilot, 91, named Woodcliff Lake Planning Board Chairman Emeritus
TRIBUTE: A World War II fighter pilot about to celebrate his 70th wedding anniversary was named the Woodcliff Lake Planning Board’s first Chairman Emeritus. Ken Glemby, 91, has lived in the borough 50...
View ArticleLittle Ferry police: Ex-con runs, fights, threatens cops
EXCLUSIVE: An ex-con tried running from Little Ferry police and then fought with officers after they stopped a bus he was on to arrest him for stealing his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s wallet, authorities...
View ArticleLawyer, investigator clash over methods in Charles Leaf child sex trial
EXCLUSIVE: Two full days of scrupulous questioning in the child sex assault trial of former Fox 5 TV reporter Charles Leaf ended yesterday in Hackensack with a defense attorney and chief investigator...
View ArticleToppled tree tangles with tractor-trailer on quiet Ridgewood street
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A rotted tree fell on a tractor-trailer that apparently banged into it, closing a stretch of Spring Avenue in Ridgewood this afternoon. Crews needed roughly two hours to free the...
View ArticleGood Samaritan leads Carlstadt police to attempted burglary suspects
EXCLUSIVE: A snowplow driver with a strong sense of civic duty interrupted a burglary at a Carlstadt commercial building, then helped lead police to the arrests of three men. A fourth remained at...
View ArticleGlen Rock police chase ends in Wyckoff railroad signal crash
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A police chase that began in Glen Rock ended in Wyckoff tonight when a 24-year-old Long Island man driving with a suspended license crashed a sedan into a train signal at a...
View ArticleFairview girl, 13, says she was sexually abused at 6
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fairview girl kept a secret for seven years before confiding in a teacher last month that a Queens man raped her, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said tonight in...
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