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East Ridgewood Avenue, Paramus, NJ
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Suspicious Death In Paramus Home Probed By Bergen County Prosecutor (
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Authorities are investigating a suspicious death in a Paramus home, a spokesperson for the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office confirmed. Paramus officers were called to a home on East Ridgewood Avenue around 4:10 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, where they found a woman dead inside the home, BCPO spokesman Jeff Angerymeyer said. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death is underway, being led by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the Paramus Police Department. The investigation is under the direction of Chief Matthew Finck and Chief Robert M. Guidetti…
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Winner
! Powerball Ticket Sold In Paramus Nets Big Bucks
It was a sensational Saturday for a Powerball player in Paramus. A ticket sold in Paramus matched four numbers and the red Powerball in the drawing held on Saturday, July 13, winning $50,000. The ticket was sold at 7-Eleven on East Ridgewood Avenue. The winning numbers were 9, 55, 59, 66, 69 and the red Powerball was 21.
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Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon
No one was seriously injured when a wagon driven by an 83-year-old local driver slammed into a Paramus nail salon Tuesday afternoon. Vehicles that hit storefronts ordinarily don't make it in very far. Not the 2007 Lexus RX that crashed into Bliss Nails in the Highland Shopping Center on East Ridgewood Avenue shopping center shortly around 1:45 p.m. Dec. 6. "Several people were inside the salon at the time but only one was injured," Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Members of Paramus Emergency Medical Services treated that person, a 59-year-old Paramus woman, for a minor cut …
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Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus
A bus driver with no passengers avoided injury after toppling a utility pole in Paramus. The NJ Transit bus clipped the pole on East Ridgewood Avenue adjacent to the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center shortly before 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. Paramus police and firefighters responded, along with a PSE&G crew that handled the necessary repairs. The Coach USA bus was driveable. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this article. The utility pole got the worst of it on East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus.Boyd A. Loving
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Update
: Detox Patient Released From Bergen Hospital Steals Ambulance, Caught By NJ State Police
A man just released from a detox program was captured by state troopers on the Garden State Parkway after he stole an ambulance from outside Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus early Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Daniel Grant Wyres, 37, of Marlton got into the unattended ambulance and drove off from the East Ridgewood Avenue facility at 12:50 p.m., Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. The ambulance company was notified and began tracking the rig, he said. The ambulance was stopped less than 15 minutes later on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 157 in Elmwood Park,…
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Update
: Detox Patient Released From Bergen Hospital Steals Ambulance, Caught By NJ State Police
A man just released from a detox program was captured by state troopers on the Garden State Parkway after he stole an ambulance from outside Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus early Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Daniel Grant Wyres, 37, of Marlton got into the unattended ambulance and drove off from the East Ridgewood Avenue facility at 12:50 p.m., Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. The ambulance company was notified and began tracking the rig, he said. The ambulance was stopped less than 15 minutes later on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 157 in Elmwood Park,…
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Bus, Car Collide At Busy Paramus Intersection
No serious injuries were reported when a car collided with a commuter bus at a busy Paramus intersection. The private vehicle was headed south on Paramus Road when it collided with an out-of-service New Jersey Transit 163 bus heading west on East Ridgewood Avenue shortly before 2 p.m., responders said. Paramus firefighters popped a door on the private vehicle to free the driver. Borough police were investigating.
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Fire Ravages Paramus Building
UPDATE: A downed power line may have been responsible for a smoky Paramus blaze doused by firefighters before dawn Thursday, responders said. The fire were reported shortly before 2 a.m. on the second floor and then the basement of a house, which had been used for offices of a construction company. on East Ridgewood Avenue just off northbound Route 17. Flames spread to the cockloft and a floor collapsed as firefighters hit the blaze above and below, responders said. They had the fire knocked down in under an hour. The cause of the fire on East Ridgewood Avenue on Paramus might have be…
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SUV Rolls In Crash At Busy Paramus Intersection
A minor arm injury was the only reported casualty after an SUV rolled onto a Paramus resident's lawn in a crash Wednesday afternoon at one of Bergen County's busiest intersections. The black Jaguar overturned after collided with a Toyota sedan on East Ridgewood Avenue at Sandor Court across from the A&S Trading service station near the Fashion Center between Route 17 and the Garden State Parkway. Paramus police, firefighters and EMS responded. Flatbed tow trucks removed the vehicles. Boyd A. Loving reported this story and took the photos. The SUV collided with this Toyota sedan o…
Police & Fire
Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot
A drunken argument left one Paramus boarding house resident hospitalized with a severe stab wound and another jailed, authorities said Friday. Jose Vasquez-Gonzales pulled a knife and stabbed Luis Cruz, 35, in the abdomen during a fight on the front lawn of the East Ridgewood Avenue boarding home just after midnight, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Vasquez-Gonzales, a 49-year-old Dominican national, ran toward the Fashion Center mall on Route 17 as a squadron of police vehicles converged on the area. An EMS crew from New Bridge Medical Center saw him running through the parking lot a…
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Driver Hospitalized In Crash Outside New Bridge Medical Center In Paramus
Paramus firefighters cut a Lyft driver from a sedan after a crash with another vehicle Wednesday morning outside New Bridge Medical Center. He was taken to the Valley Hospital in initially unknown condition. Police, Fire Companies 1 and 2, the Rescue Squad and EMS were among the responders to the East Ridgewood Avenue crash, which jammed area traffic. Both vehicles were removed by flatbed tow truck. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report.
Neighbors
Hero Civilians Aid Paramus Rollover Victim
PARAMUS, N.J. — Not all heroes wear uniforms: Three in Paramus on Monday morning sported winter coats, along with gashes on their fingertips. The trio of strangers -- William Tiernan, Paul Delmonico and U.S. Airman Darwin Polo -- were outside a 7-Eleven in an East Ridgewood Avenue strip mall across from the Fashion Center when Tiernen spotted a car across the roadway barreling through snowbanks just before 11:30 a.m. He called for help and ran toward the car. Delmonico and Polo, hearing his cries, saw the car speed down a hill, briefly go airborne and land in the parking lot behind the Fas…
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