Pot sale rip-off leaves Cliffside Park man pistol-whipped, hit by car
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Cliffside Park man who police said tried to rip off a drug dealer was pistol-whipped with his partner’s gun and then knocked down by the intended target’s car while fleeing...
View ArticleWashington Township officer in hit and run on mend, reward increased, driver...
SHOUT OUT: The reward for finding the hit-and-run driver whose speeding SUV knocked down and injured Washington Township Police Officer Heather Castronova on a darkened local street went to $6,000...
View ArticleMurderer insists he was ‘guided by voices’ in dismembering and burying...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in his Bronx apartment testified today that he was guided by voices when he dismembered her body and sealed the pieces in the...
View ArticleFort Lee teen, 19, accused of having sex with girl, 14
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Fort Lee man was arrested by investigators from the borough and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit on charges of having sex with a 14-year-old...
View ArticleArrest in brutal Edgewater rape
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A multi-state manhunt ended on a West New York rooftop when detectives from Edgewater and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Special Victims Unit chased down and arrested a Mexican...
View ArticleIndictment: Some of Bergen’s elite scammed
EXCLUSIVE: Alpine philanthropist Lenora Klein, Englewood restaurant owner Carlo Bartolomeo and Bergenfield photographer/writer Elizabeth R. Burchard were among a group of Bergen County victims taken in...
View ArticleEarly-morning Hillsdale deck fire quickly put down
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Hillsdale firefighters quickly extinguished an early-morning blaze on the rear deck and back of a two-family house after a citizen who saw smoke alerted a passing police...
View ArticleKiller who dismembered ex-girlfriend guilty of desecrating remains in Teaneck
VERDICT: In a decision that shocked no one, jurors in Hackensack today convicted a Bronx man serving time for killing and dismembering his ex-girlfriend of desecrating her remains by trying to bury the...
View ArticleProfound shock, grief over watercraft death of Westwood ‘angel’
TRIBUTE: Friends and loved ones remained shocked and grieving today over the accidental death of a 52-year-old Westwood grandmother – and Glen Rock native — in a watercraft crash on Lake Tahoe...
View ArticleCyclists struck on 9W in Alpine
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: Two bicyclists were taken to area hospitals this morning after they were struck from behind by a car on 9W in Alpine. Injuries didn’t appear life-threatening, Alpine Police...
View ArticleShoplifting suspect swims across Passaic River into waiting arms of Fair Lawn...
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn shoplifting suspect who was chased into Paterson this morning jumped into the Passaic River, swam across — and found Fair Lawn police waiting on the other side. Lt....
View Article12 new Bergen County sheriff’s officers sworn in
SHOUT OUT: “This is a great day for our new officers, their families and Bergen County,” said Sheriff Michael Saudino, as a dozen new sheriff’s officers were sworn in yesterday. Chosen from 100...
View ArticleAllendale landlord gets 5 years for threatening tenant with gun
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: An Allendale landlord who decided to settle a dispute over parking on his lawn with a handgun was sentenced today to five years in prison, three of which he must serve before...
View ArticleBoy on bicycle hit by car in Park Ridge
ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT: A boy on a bicycle was taken to Hackensack Unversity Medical Center with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening after he was struck by a car in a Park Ridge parking...
View ArticleArrest in Fair Lawn arson fire
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Fair Lawn woman was taken into custody by police this afternoon after she allegedly set fire to a stack of papers in her bedroom, CLIFFVIEW PILOT has learned. Firefighters...
View ArticleRutherford man gets 364 days for corporal punishment of daughter, 13
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: A judge in Hackensack yesterday sentenced a Rutherford man who beat his 13-year old daughter with a karate stick, broomstick and belt to 364 days in the Bergen County Jail, despite...
View ArticleMahwah PBA seeks golfers, donations for outing
SHOUT OUT: The Mahwah Policeman’s Benevolent Association Local 143 is seeking golfers and donations of goods or services that can be used as raffle prizes and/or giveaways for a golf outing at Apple...
View ArticleWoodcliff Lake crash victim airlifted from Garden State Parkway
YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: For the second time in eight days, a medical helicopter landed on the Garden State Parkway in northern Bergen County to airlift a victim injured in a crash to Hackensack...
View Article4-car crash jams Route 208
YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A four-car chain-reaction crash on Route 208 south in Hawthorne this morning clogged traffic in both directions. Police said one person sustained a minor hand injury and was...
View ArticleRescuers in GSP crash save man who hid NBA star’s bloody clothes
EXCLUSIVE REPORT: They couldn’t have known it then, but a group of heroes who pulled a driver from a burning SUV seconds before it exploded on the Garden State Parkway in Washington Township a little...
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