Bergen County arson investigators were called to the scene of a fire that blew through the roof of a River Vale home Wednesday night.“Thankfully the family and their pets all appear to be safe,” state Assemblywoman Holly Schepisi said.Two dogs were rescued from the 2½-story Pascack Avenue home -- near the Harrington Park border – when the fire broke out, responders said. No one ...

“Hey, sexy, do you want a cigarette?” an Englewood Cliffs realtor asked a 16-year-old Fort Lee High School student whom he'd stalked for two weeks, said police who arrested him.Chayim (Michael) Shvarzblat, 32, approached the girl during five different lunch breaks, offering her a cigarette each time, Capt. Matthew Hintze said Wednesday.Each time, she ignored him and returned to school, ...

A New Milford man accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl had to be removed from his car by a SWAT team after he drove it into a restricted area of Palisades Interstate Park and then refused to get out, authorities said.A PIP police officer tried to stop 21-year-old Mike Andrew Urgiles after he drove on the wrong side of a closed gate on Tuesday, Officer-In-Charge Lt. Jock ...

The Paterson Diocese on Wednesday released its list of priests accused of sexual abuse but didn't identify their parishes."You don't need to know that information," a Paterson Diocese receptionist told Daily Voice. "All that you see is what has been approved by the bishop."Most were removed from the ministry. Several have died.Dozens of Bergen County priests and their parishes were ...

Authorities were searching for a hit-and-run driver who damaged another motorist's SUV Tuesday morning in Rochelle Park.Barbara Chojna said she was headed toward Paramus from Lodi when the driver of a gold Subaru hatchback "changed his mind about making a right and swerved into the intersection to make a left without even looking" at Essex Street and Main Streets/Rochelle Avenue around ...

Wayne police nabbed two members of a crew of Newark car thieves who they said stole three unlocked vehicles – crashing one of them – and rummaged through nearly a dozen others before dawn Tuesday.Several residents called police around 1:40 a.m. to report cars either being stolen or burglarized along MacDonald Drive, Stonycroft Road, White Oak Lane and Hamilton Avenue, Detective Capt. ...

UPDATE: An Elmwood Park toddler was hospitalized with burns Wednesday morning after accidentally knocking a cup of hot tea onto himself at the kitchen table, Police Chief Michael Foligno said."My baby is fine," the boy's mother said. "It was an accident." The boy -- only a month short of 2 years old -- was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after being injured ...

Palisades Park Police Sgt. George Beck had only just become editor-in-chief of Blue Magazine when two cunning members of the NYPD used the Passaic County-based publication as bait to snare a serial package thief.Carlos Maisonet, a 52-year-old repeat offender wanted on a parole violation, had broken into an Upper West Side apartment building on Columbus Avenue near 85th Street and taken ...

UPDATE: Leonia police chased down four people who sped off in a stolen car before crashing Tuesday afternoon -- the last of them on the roof of an apartment building in Ridgefield Park -- with help from their colleagues in surrounding departments.Officer Raymond Forsdahl began pursuing a 2014 Honda Accord reported stolen out of Paterson after spotting it on Grand Avenue around 3 p.m., ...

FINAL WALKOUT: It's not easy to produce one of the safest municipalities in all of New Jersey -- especially when you're on the outskirts of cities with high crime rates -- which helps account for the pride that retired New Milford Police Chief Frank Ramaci had during his final walkout on Tuesday."I'm proudest of the officers who've worked tirelessly during my tenure to protect the ...