Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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SUVs Collide, Topple Traffic Light In Midland Park SUVs Collide, Topple Traffic Light In Midland Park
SUVs Collide, Topple Traffic Light In Midland Park A driver was hospitalized after two SUVs collided at a Midland Park intersection, taking out a traffic light in the process. A Chevy Tahoe slammed into the light pole in the collision with a Dodge Durango at the corner of Erie and Franklin avenues around 9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8. The Midland Park Ambulance Corps took the female driver of the Toyota to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening. All Points Towing removed both vehicles. Midland Park police and firefighters responded, along with members of the borough DPW. Borough police were inv…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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SUV Slams Into Utility Pole In Midland Park SUV Slams Into Utility Pole In Midland Park
SUV Slams Into Utility Pole In Midland Park A driver was hospitalized after his SUV struck a utility pole in Midland Park. Initial details were sketchy, but responders said the driver suffered head trauma in the early-morning crash on Erie Avenue near Smith Lane on Monday, Aug. 29. The road was closed as PSE&G made repairs to a pair of poles downed in the crash. The Toyota RAV 4 was towed. The road was closed indefinitely following the crash in front of 189 Erie Avenue in Midland Park on Monday, Aug. 29.Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
Jersey City, NJ
Business
Jersey City Chicken Chain Shutters After 12 Years Jersey City Chicken Chain Shutters After 12 Years
Jersey City Chicken Chain Shutters After 12 Years A popular chicken chain is closing its Jersey City location after 12 years. Bonchon Chicken on Newark Avenue will shutter Sunday, Aug. 28, according to a sign on the door. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jersey City Upfront (@jc_upfront) The shop thanked customers for their patronage. No word yet on the replacement. Bonchon is a South Korean chicken chain founded in 2002, and has locations in Lodi, Hackensack, Fort Lee, Midland Park, Nutley, and Parsippany.

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by Cecilia Levine
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Masked Men Carjack Midland Park Business Owner For Luxury Sedan Masked Men Carjack Midland Park Business Owner For Luxury Sedan
Masked Men Carjack Midland Park Business Owner For Luxury Sedan SEE ANYTHING? A Midland Park business owner was robbed by two masked men who sped from the local shopping center with his luxury sedan, authorities said. The armed bandits accosted the merchant outside his shop on Godwin Avenue across from the Midland Park/King's shopping center around 7 a.m., they said. The robbers "followed him to his business, where they stole the keys from him," Midland Park Police Chief Michael Powderley said. "It resulted in a newer model year BMW M8 being stolen from the Kings parking lot. "Thankfully there were no injuries," the chief said. Recent models of t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Franklin Lakes House Fire Doused Franklin Lakes House Fire Doused
Franklin Lakes House Fire Doused Firefighters quickly extinguished a Franklin Lakes house blaze before it could do more damage. Boxes apparently caught fire in the basement of the Summit Avenue home just off Route 208 shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday, responders said. Firefighters had the flames knocked down within a half-hour, they said. The fire was declared under control minutes later. Mutual aid responders either at the scene or in coverage included firefighters from Fair Lawn, Midland Park, Ramsey, Waldwick and Wyckoff, responders said.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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Notorious NJ Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of Dance Teacher At Popular Long Island Mall Notorious NJ Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of Dance Teacher At Popular Long Island Mall
Notorious NJ Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of Dance Teacher At Popular Long Island Mall Another female victim has been added to the list of imprisoned 75-year-old New Jersey serial killer Richard Cottingham, thanks to advances in DNA technology. Cottingham was arraigned on Long Island via videoconference Wednesday from South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton for the 1968 slaying of a New Hyde Park woman in the parking lot of the popular Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. He entered a not-guilty plea to murder charges in the death of Diane Cusick, a 23-year-old divorced single mom who worked as a dance instructor. Cottingham, a married father of three who’d lived in Lodi and wor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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Judge Refuses To Release Newark Defendant Charged With Shooting Jersey Shore Man In Paterson Judge Refuses To Release Newark Defendant Charged With Shooting Jersey Shore Man In Paterson
Judge Refuses To Release Newark Defendant Charged With Shooting Jersey Shore Man In Paterson A state judge refused to release a defendant from Newark who was captured in New York City and charged with shooting a Jersey Shore man following a robbery in Paterson. The 27-year-old Sea Bright victim was shot near the corner of Putnam Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard on Jan. 8, 2021. He sought treatment at Riverside Medical Center in Red Bank without telling city police, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. Red Bank police who were alerted to the shooting immediately notified their Paterson colleagues, they said.&n…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Paterson, NJ
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No Bail Reform In This Court: Judge Orders Accused Prospect Park Shooter From Midland Park Held No Bail Reform In This Court: Judge Orders Accused Prospect Park Shooter From Midland Park Held
No Bail Reform In This Court: Judge Orders Accused Prospect Park Shooter From Midland Park Held A state court judge in Paterson has refused to release a Midland Park man charged in a Prospect Park shooting. That defendant, Rahjshone Newkirk, 23, and borough resident Tylaire Clark, 22, had been sought by police after two people reported being shot at on Hopper Street around 6 p.m. Feb. 2, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Prospect Park Police Chief Ammen Matari said in a joint release. Their vehicle was struck, but the victims’ weren’t wounded, they said. Borough police nabbed Newkirk on North 8th Street last Thursday, May 12.  Despite a state bail reform law that …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Franklin Lakes Driver, 87, Hits Fort Lee Women — One Of Them 77 — In Wyckoff Franklin Lakes Driver, 87, Hits Fort Lee Women — One Of Them 77 — In Wyckoff
Franklin Lakes Driver, 87, Hits Fort Lee Women — One Of Them 77 — In Wyckoff UPDATE: An SUV driven by an 87-year-old Franklin Lakes motorist struck two women from Fort Lee as they crossed a Wyckoff street, sending both to the hospital, authorities said. The older pedestrian, 77, suffered "serious but non-life-threatening injuries to her upper body" after they were struck by a 2010 Chevy at the intersection of Wyckoff and Cedar Hill avenues around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, Lt. Joseph Soto said. The other woman, 42, sustained head and face injuries, he said. Sgt. Kevin Pinches and Officers Robert Schlossberg and Kenneth Marcoux secured the scene and rendered aid…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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FLAT LEAVERS: Quartet Caught After Abandoning Stolen Car On Route 208 FLAT LEAVERS: Quartet Caught After Abandoning Stolen Car On Route 208
Flat Leavers: Quartet Caught After Abandoning Stolen Car On Route 208 GOTCHA! The out-of-control auto theft epidemic has frustrated law enforcers throughout New Jersey, but sometimes the good guys catch a break. Just ask police in Wyckoff. It was late morning when a concerned citizen called to report four young occupants abandoning a stolen Mercedes Benz S550 sedan that blew a tire on Route 208. All four vanished into the neighborhood between Cedar Hill and Grandview avenues, the caller said. Instead of splitting up, though, they stuck together. A wave of police from Wyckoff, Midland Park and Hawthorne instantly converged on the area. Wyckoff Police Chief D…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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DWI Chain-Reaction Crash Injures Child, Two Others In Glen Rock DWI Chain-Reaction Crash Injures Child, Two Others In Glen Rock
DWI Chain-Reaction Crash Injures Child, Two Others In Glen Rock A Midland Park driver was drunk when she slammed her SUV into a vehicle stopped at a traffic light in Glen Rock, causing a chain reaction crash that sent her, another motorist and a child to the hospital, authorities said. Marialyse Debel, 62, was approaching Maple Avenue on Ackerman Avenue when her 2018 Jeep plowed into the first vehicle shortly after 4 p.m. on March 17, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. “The impact caused a chain reaction collision involving two additional vehicles that were also stopped for the red light,” Ackermann said. Three of the vehicles had to be towed, the chief…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Northern Highlands, NJ
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Residents, Cats OK In Overnight Waldwick Fire Residents, Cats OK In Overnight Waldwick Fire
Residents, Cats OK In Overnight Waldwick Fire Residents and several cats safely fled an overnight house fire in Waldwick, responders said. The two-alarm midland blaze broke out in the attic of the Douglas Street home around midnight Sunday, March 5. Waldwick firefighters quickly doused the flames, sparing further damage. The cause wasn't immediately determined. Mutual aid responders included firefighters from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Mahwah, Midland Park and Wyckoff.

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by Jerry DeMarco