A Brooklyn man caught hoarding enough black market medical supplies to “outfit an entire hospital” deliberately coughed on investigating FBI agents and told them he had the coronavirus, federal authorities said Monday.Baruch Feldheim, 43, violated an executive order issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week that makes it illegal to hoard certain scarce health ...

Police chased down and captured three Bronx men in Woodland Park moments after they robbed a Verizon store in Denville, authorities said.One of the defendants, Ysael Castro-Espinosa, 22, was caught with an Apple watch he took from the store employee who was forced to open a safe during Sunday night’s holdup just after 7 p.m. at the Route 10 store, they said.Two of the robbers went into ...

One of America’s most beloved singer-songwriters, John Prine, remained hospitalized in critical but stable condition with the coronavirus after being intubated over the weekend, his wife said Monday.As news spread among musicians and fans through the weekend, fellow American music icon Joan Baez posted a a version of Prine’s “Hello In There” that she’d recorded in her kitchen (see ...

Two more inmates at the Bergen County Jail recently tested positive for the coronavirus, one of whom was hospitalized and another who was receiving medical care in an isolation unit at the lockup, Sheriff Anthony Cureton said Monday.The 40-year-old Salvadoran national in ICE custody and a 54-year-old county inmate brought the total number of inmates who tested positive to three, the ...

The coronavirus has killed eight patients at one Wanaque nursing home and infected many more there and at another in town, officials said.Staff members and others at the Lakeland Nursing Home on Fifth Avenue in Haskell were being treated there after being infected, Wanaque Mayor Dan Mahler said.“Most of this occurred over the past few days,” Mahler said in a Sunday night letter to ...

Authorities charged a Paterson ex-con with attempted murder, among other counts, in a weekend shooting that sent a neighbor to the hospital.Sultan A. Woodford, 45, remained held Monday in the Passaic County Jail following his arrest at a nearby residence shortly after the 10:30 p.m. Sunday shooting at a Dixon Street home.In addition to the attempted murder count, city detectives charged ...

Although the worst of the coronavirus pandemic isn’t expected in the U.S. for another two weeks, hospitals are already scrambling to find space to treat those infected.Hackensack University Medical Center is converting its cafeteria into a unit for more than 70 patients, health care workers said Monday.Nearly a dozen other units in the hospital have been converted for treating ...

Arson investigators Monday morning probed a trio of garbage can fires on the same Clifton block, authorities confirmed.No one was injured in the most recent blaze, a smoky 5 a.m. fire Monday that cleared a Highland Avenue home, authorities said.Firefighters quickly doused the blaze and vented smoke from the home with fans.The Red Cross tended to the residents.CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

First responders with the coronavirus in New Jersey who cannot self-quarantine at home will have a place to stay, thanks to firefighters and police in the city of Passaic.Work this weekend continued on "The Comfort Home," a four-bedroom residence on a dead end city street that organizers say will accommodate up to eight first responders at a time beginning April 6.The idea emerged ...

You can enjoy sex during the coronavirus pandemic if you follow certain precautions, but there’s one particular act of intimacy that health officials say you should avoid at all costs.Those getting busy amid the COVID-19 crisis should sleep only with people close to them in order to be safe – or, better yet, stick to self-serve, a set of sex guidelines issued by the New York City Health ...