Teaneck, NJ
Lifestyle
NJ Native Shows Love For College Roomie With Valentine's Day Organ Transplant NJ Native Shows Love For College Roomie With Valentine's Day Organ Transplant
NJ Native Shows Love For College Roomie With Valentine's Day Organ Transplant A brotherhood that blossomed 30 years ago between two college roommates is proving stronger than ever this Valentine's Day. Steve Robinson, 57, of Teaneck, is showing his love for Richard Koonce, 62, of Ohio, by donating part of his liver. The transplant will happen on Feb. 14 at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Richard Koonce and Steve RobinsonProvided by Norfolk State University “I love Richard...he is the man that introduced me to my wife and helped me get on the right track...we helped each other grow as men,” Robinson said. “He is someone who always looks out for others, an…

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by Cecilia Levine
Massapequa, NY
News
New Airline Coming To Long Island MacArthur New Airline Coming To Long Island MacArthur
New Airline Coming To Long Island MacArthur It'll be a breeze to get a flight at MacArthur Airport after an upstart airline added the Long Island destination to its growing list of routes. “Breeze Airways,” which was founded by David Neelman, the mind behind JetBlue and other major airline start-ups, is set to begin flying in and out of the Ronkonkoma airport as soon as early 2022. Eight new routes will be added in February from MacArthur and Palm Beach International Airport in Florida as Breeze's 17th and 18 destinations, expanding the airline's network to 42 routes. "Breeze’s business model is to add ‘nice, new nonstop’ flights on…

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by Zak Failla
Mount Pleasant, NY
Police & Fire
21-Year-Old Charged In Connection To Shots-Fired Incident On Roadway In Region 21-Year-Old Charged In Connection To Shots-Fired Incident On Roadway In Region
21-Year-Old Charged In Connection To Shots-Fired Incident On Roadway In Region A 21-year-old has been charged following an incident in which shots were allegedly fired on a roadway in the region. The incident happened around 4:20 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 27 in Rockland County.  That's when Orangetown Police Department officers responded to the area of 49 West Central Ave. in Pearl River. As a result of the investigation, the Orangetown Police recovered a firearm and placed two people in custody.  The Rockland County Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded to process the scene. The incident was investigated by the Orangetown Police&nbs…

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by Joe Lombardi
Cherry Hill, NJ
News
US Marshals Help Arrest Fugitive Wanted For Murder In Virginia US Marshals Help Arrest Fugitive Wanted For Murder In Virginia
US Marshals Help Arrest Fugitive Wanted For Murder In Virginia A fugitive wanted for his role in a Camden homicide has been captured in Virginia, authorities said. Michael Allen, 19, of Collingswood, was taken into custody by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force from Norfolk, VA,  Thursday at a residence in Newport News, Virginia, Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill Mayer and Camden County Police Chief Gabriel Rodriguez said. Allen was charged on Oct. 29 with first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Lamont Demby of Camden. Demby was fatally shot in the area of Jackson Street and Warsaw Street…

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by Jon Craig
Lewisboro, NY
Weather
Next Tropical Storm Of 2021 Hurricane Season Forming Off East Coast Next Tropical Storm Of 2021 Hurricane Season Forming Off East Coast
Next Tropical Storm Of 2021 Hurricane Season Forming Off East Coast The next named storm of the 2021 hurricane season is now developing. It's off the East Coast of the United States and could become a tropical depression or tropical storm on Friday night, Sept. 17, or Saturday, Sept. 18, forecasters say. It has moved about 250 miles east of Norfolk, Virginia on mid-afternoon Friday. (See first image above.) The next names in the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season are Odette and Peter.  "Shower and thunderstorm activity is becoming more organized near this new center," National Hurricane Center said Friday afternoon. "If these development trends…

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by Joe Lombardi
White Plains, NY
Politics
COVID-19: Cuomo, Trump Call White House Meeting Productive, Agree On Plan To Double NY Testing COVID-19: Cuomo, Trump Call White House Meeting Productive, Agree On Plan To Double NY Testing
Covid-19: Cuomo, Trump Call White House Meeting Productive, Agree On Plan To Double NY Testing Both President Donald Trump and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a meeting the two had with several of their staff members at the White House on Tuesday afternoon, April 21 was productive. The main topic discussed was testing for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as New York aims to gradually reopen its economy. "As everyone knows, that's going to be the next step as we go forward and how do we separate the responsibilities and the tasks on testing vis-a-vis the state and the federal government and the acknowledgment that we all need to work together on this," Cuomo said on MSNBC. "It has to …

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by Joe Lombardi
Massapequa, NY
News
COVID-19: NY Looks To Secure New Temporary Hospital Sites, 12K More Join Surge Healthcare Force COVID-19: NY Looks To Secure New Temporary Hospital Sites, 12K More Join Surge Healthcare Force
Covid-19: NY Looks To Secure New Temporary Hospital Sites, 12K More Join Surge Healthcare Force New York State is scouting additional new sites for temporary hospitals, with a goal of having a 1,000-plus patient overflow facility in each NYC borough as well as Westchester, Rockland, Nassau and Suffolk counties, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. The new additions will supplement temporary hospital facilities that are being set up at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and locations at SUNY Stony Brook, SUNY Old Westbury and Westchester County Center and are aimed at building thousands of new beds to bolster existing hospital capacity, with the goal of being open to patients in early to mid Apri…

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by Joe Lombardi
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Former U.S. Navy Member Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Guns Into NJ Former U.S. Navy Member Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Guns Into NJ
Former U.S. Navy Member Gets 18 Months In Federal Prison For Trafficking Guns Into NJ A former active-duty member of the U.S. Navy was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison for illegally trafficking guns to a New Jersey couple – including one that ended up being fired on the street hours later. Tesora Amanda Cortes Trejorojas, 24, admitted in federal court in Newark last February that she bought the semi-automatic weapons at a store near her Norfolk, VA home for Azia Sinclair and Shyheim “Shy” Tyson of Newark. She entered the plea in exchange for the more lenient sentence -- all of which she must serve because there's no parole in the federal prison system. The so…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Yonkers, NY
Obituaries
Former Yonkers Resident Patricia Harsche, 89, Loved Music, Dance Former Yonkers Resident Patricia Harsche, 89, Loved Music, Dance
Former Yonkers Resident Patricia Harsche, 89, Loved Music, Dance Patricia June (Gandee) Harsche, of Washington, D.C., formerly of Yonkers, died on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019 at age 89. She was born July 12, 1930 to Walter and Veronica (Palyo) Harsche. Pat was an accomplished Gold status Arthur Murray dance instructor and awarded a scholarship in classical piano from the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Music.  Travels took her to Mare Island, CA where she pursued her love of the arts in ceramics, pottery and stained glass and ran the Teen Club. She also lived in Norfolk, VA, Nagasaki, Japan and Oxnard, CA. Later she lived in Washington, D.C., where …

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by Daily Voice
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
Police & Fire
Morris County Teen Girl, Men Found With $15K In Marijuana 'Candy': Sheriff Morris County Teen Girl, Men Found With $15K In Marijuana 'Candy': Sheriff
Morris County Teen Girl, Men Found With $15K In Marijuana 'Candy': Sheriff A drug buy witnessed by detectives in Newark Thursday led to four arrests as well as the seizure of marijuana edibles with a street value of about $30,000, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said. Plainclothes sheriff’s officers were conducting surveillance at Broadway and Bloomfield Place as part of an ongoing operation to stop drug trafficking in Newark’s North Ward. The sheriff’s office says Louis Roselle, 36, of Newark, was standing at 95 Broadway when a Ford Edge approached and a man got out. Roselle handed the man -- 21-year-old Patrick Caloway of Morristown -- two green bags in e…

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by Paul Milo
Newark, NJ
Police & Fire
Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy' Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy'
Sheriff's Officers In Newark Seize Guns, $30K In Marijuana 'Candy' A drug buy witnessed by detectives in Newark Thursday led to four arrests as well as the seizure of marijuana edibles with a street value of about $30,000, Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura said. Plainclothes sheriff’s officers were conducting surveillance at Broadway and Bloomfield Place as part of an ongoing operation to stop drug trafficking in Newark’s North Ward. The sheriff’s office says Louis Roselle, 36, of Newark, was standing at 95 Broadway when a Ford Edge approached and a man got out. Roselle handed the man -- 21-year-old Patrick Caloway of Morristown -- two green bags in e…

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by Paul Milo
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
U.S. Navy Member Admits Illegally Buying Guns In Virginia For NJ Couple U.S. Navy Member Admits Illegally Buying Guns In Virginia For NJ Couple
U.S. Navy Member Admits Illegally Buying Guns In Virginia For NJ Couple A former active-duty member of the U.S. Navy admitted Tuesday that she illegally bought five guns in Virginia for a New Jersey couple – including one that ended up being fired on the street hours later. The sound of gunshots brought police to a neighborhood in Orange, where they reported finding one of the guns, in November 2017, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said Tuesday. Tesora Amanda Cortes Trejorojas, 24, admitted in federal court in Newark on Tuesday that she bought the semi-automatic weapons at a store near her Norfolk, Va. Home for Azia Sinclair and Shyheim “Shy” Tyson of Newark, the…

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by Jerry DeMarco