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UPDATE: Traffic Still Stretches For Miles Hours After NY State Thruway Overpass Is Struck UPDATE: Traffic Still Stretches For Miles Hours After NY State Thruway Overpass Is Struck
Update: Traffic Still Stretches For Miles Hours After NY State Thruway Overpass Is Struck UPDATE: The southbound New York State Thruway was entirely reopened by 7 p.m. Thursday following repairs to a severely damaged overpass. An overheight hollow steel tower being transported on a trailer struck and severely damaged the South Broadway bridge in Orangetown at 6:45 a.m. Aug. 31, according to New York State Police. The result: A traffic standstill that at one point stretched nearly a dozen miles, various feeder roadways choked with vehicles and countless motorists looking for a way out. It was the third time that particular overpass had been struck in less than a year, commuters…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NY Man Killed In Montvale Garden State Parkway Hit-Run NY Man Killed In Montvale Garden State Parkway Hit-Run
NY Man Killed In Montvale Garden State Parkway Hit-Run A 77-year-old New York man was killed in a hit-and-run crash on the Garden State Parkway in Montvale Thursday night. Howard Perlman was heading northbound in the right lane when his Toyota Venza was struck by an unknown vehicle around 7:10 p.m. near milepost 172.3, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Alejandro Goez said. The Toyota went off the road to the right and struck several trees as the unknown vehicle fled the scene, the sergeant said. Perlman, of Hopewell Junction (Dutchess County) was rushed to Nyack Hospital with serious injuries, where he was later pronounced dead. The accident remai…

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by Cecilia Levine
Obituaries
Demarest's Teresa McGahren, 93, Devoted Mother, Grandmother, Friend & Nurse Extraordinaire Demarest's Teresa McGahren, 93, Devoted Mother, Grandmother, Friend & Nurse Extraordinaire
Demarest's Teresa McGahren, 93, Devoted Mother, Grandmother, Friend & Nurse Extraordinaire Teresa Ellen McGahren died on Jan. 30. She was 93 years old and remembered as a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend and caregiver.  Teresa was born to Grace and Patrick Holland on Sept. 17, 1927, on a farm in Rossnowlagh, Ireland on the banks of the Donegal Bay. At the tender age of 15, she left home to work and live with a family in Belfast, likely applying some of the practical skills she had learned on the farm.  Several years later, she moved to London where she trained to become a registered nurse, attending to the sick and injured in the difficult years followin…

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by Daily Voice
Police & Fire
Friend's Alleged Punch Kills Norwood Man Outside Former Rockland Bar Friend's Alleged Punch Kills Norwood Man Outside Former Rockland Bar
Friend's Alleged Punch Kills Norwood Man Outside Former Rockland Bar Two familiar families -- both coming from lines of Bergen County first responders -- are now grieving following the death of a young Norwood man after authorities said he was knocked unconscious by his friend outside a former Rockland County bar. Assault charges were expected to be upgraded to manslaughter against 21-year-old Douglas Guido, a Norwood native living in Hasbrouck Heights, following the death of his friend, RJ Hess. The two had been together at the Saloon on West Central Avenue in Pearl River in the pre-dawn hours of June 23 when they were asked to leave, a source close to the …

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by Jerry DeMarco