Issues with a notification system caused confusion at one Bergen County high school Tuesday morning.
Students had already showed up for an in-person day of learning at Ramsey High School when the email announcing the shift to remote learning due to a positive COVID-19 case went out around 9:05 a.m...
A driver was serious injured during a series of tractor-trailer crashes that closed both sides of a notorious stretch of Route 287 in Oakland, jamming traffic until well after sunrise Wednesday.
Two rigs crashed separately on the rain-soaked highway's northbound side near Skyline Drive barely 15 ...
A 49-year-old mom vacationing with her kids on the Jersey Shore drowned trying to save them from dangerous tides Tuesday, authorities said.
“It was not at all a beach day," Fire Chief Dominick J. McClain told NJ.com, noting there were not any lifeguards on the beach. "The water was very rough and ...
A 32-year-old U.S. Division of Homeland Security agent who was off-duty when he seriously injured a bicyclist in Hoboken then fled surrendered to detectives, authorities said Wednesday.
Ryan Varrone was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and 39 other motor vehicle violations in the cras...
A troubled woman remained barricaded inside a Bergenfield home for several hours Wednesday.
Police believed the woman was alone and unarmed in the Maiden Lane home.
Members of SWAT and Regional Crisis Negotiation teams joined borough police after the standoff began around 12:30 p.m.
It continued for...
A warehouse worker from Palisades Park was charged with statutory rape.
Edison Moreno Teletor, 19, was charged with sexual assault of a child between 13 and 16 and child endangerment on Saturday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
Members of Musella’s Special Victims Unit took Teletor, of ...
U.S. Marshals captured an ex-con who ran a Ponzi scheme while on federal probation that swindled a Fort Lee investor, among others, out of more than $500,000, authorities said.
Giuseppe Valentino, 52, “solicited multiple investors in his company, Rhineau LLC, by representing that he had developed ...
A cook from Englewood was charged with having sex with an underage Waldwick girl he apparently met on a dating app, authorities said.
Police searching for the girl after she’d been reported missing found her Sunday night in Allendale with Seti Tonge, 22, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said....
A contractor hid a micro camera that recorded video in bathrooms at homes in Paramus and Wayne, authorities said.
The Paramus victim went to local police after finding the camera, with a micro-SD memory card, hidden in a bathroom wall, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said Wednesday.
Detectives learn...
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The death of 20-year-old Amanuel "Amani" Kildea whose body was found hanging in a Morris County park tree last June was ruled a suicide, following a months-long investigation, authorities said Wednesday.
Kildea's body was found b...
Having New York City in your backyard has its perks -- but it certainly comes with a price.
Residential rental website Zumper has ranked a handful of North Jersey cities as some of the most expensive in the NYC-Metro area.
The "Zumper New York City Metro Area Report" analyzed active listings -- pa...
A priest and former chaplain of a North Jersey Catholic school was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of six students, authorities announced Thursday.
Salvatore DiStefano, 61, who most recently resided at Our Lady of Peace Roman Catholic Church New Providence, is charged with engagi...
A Wayne entrepreneur who authorities said owned and operated several businesses in and around Fair Lawn admitted in federal court that he ducked nearly $550,000 in employment taxes.
Dennis Saccurato, 68, told a judge during a teleconferenced plea hearing in Trenton that he failed to withhold, repo...
Authorities identified the two people killed in an early-morning Newark crash Thursday as brothers.
Roger Narainsammy, 22, was in the front passenger seat while Robert Narainsammy, 26, was in the rear passenger seat of a black Acura MDX that struck a dump truck on McCarter Highway and Lafayette St...
Someone made "unsubstantiated" threats to Lakeland Regional High School in Wanaque this week, authorities said Thursday.
"There is no immediate danger to the community at this time," Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Wanaque Police Chief Robert Kronyak said in a brief release Thursda...
A pair of Jersey City bodega owners were charged with setting fire to their shop in June of last year, authorities said.
Amado Gonzalez-Abreu, age 38, and Francisca Duran-Tejada, age 47, were arrested at the Jersey City Fire Department Headquarters on Marin Boulevard Wednesday, Hudson County Prose...
A Monmouth County man and his brother were being sought by federal authorities who charged them and three other people with running guns from Florida to the Jersey Shore.
Fugitives Waldin “Manin” Espinosa-Ozoria, 31, of Freehold and Manuel “Chino” Espinosa-Ozoria, 30, of Bartow, FL are charged wit...
Bella Hadid is getting a taste of Hackensack.
The 23-year-old model and aunt to sister Gigi's newborn daughter posted photos of herself and a friend named Daniel getting ice cream at Cranberry Junction and sliders at White Manna.
"This is Bella & Daniel," she wrote on an Instagram post Thursday...
A North Jersey hypnotist was arrested after authorities said he subjected clients to a prostate exam during appointments.
Robert Bruckner, who owns and operates Major Mindset Hypnosis Counseling in Fairfield, was charged Wednesday with sexual assault, endangering the welfare of child and practicin...
A Fair Lawn driver collected a $1 million settlement for a rear-end crash that his attorney said forced him to change jobs.
Gjon Lahu, 35, stopped to let a pedestrian cross Fair Lawn Avenue in September 2017 when his vehicle was struck from behind.
Lahu was seriously injured and required physical t...