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COVID-19: Passaic County MVC Center Marks 4th Closed Due To Positive Case Among Workers COVID-19: Passaic County MVC Center Marks 4th Closed Due To Positive Case Among Workers
Covid-19: Passaic County MVC Center Marks 4th Closed Due To Positive Case Among Workers Four of New Jersey's Motor Vehicle Commission centers were closed as of Monday after a worker tested positive in Passaic County. The Paterson agency -- a regional/licensing center -- closed on Monday, Nov. 2 after the test returned positive. The news comes the same day that nearly a dozen MVC agencies switched to appointment-only. The Paterson center is expected to reopen Nov. 14. The worker was last in the office on Friday, officials said. MVC centers in West Deptford, Rahway and Washington were also closed as of Monday, due to workers who tested positive.

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by Cecilia Levine
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COVID-19: Bergen County Middle School To Stay Open After Additional Case Reported COVID-19: Bergen County Middle School To Stay Open After Additional Case Reported
Covid-19: Bergen County Middle School To Stay Open After Additional Case Reported An individual at a Bergen County middle school who had been quarantining due to a known COVID-19 exposure tested positive for the virus, officials said. The Eric S. Smith Middle School in Ramsey will stay open after the individual tested positive on a rapid test Oct. 31, district officials said. The borough's health officer and contact tracers have been notified. The individual had not been in the school since Oct. 27, Ramsey Schools Superintendent Matthew Murphy said. Ramsey Schools reported four positive cases of COVID-19 last month, including one at the Eric S. Smith Middle School.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree
Passaic Driver, 66, Trapped After High Winds Topple Tree A Passaic driver was hospitalized after what became an extended operation after Monday's high winds knocked a huge tree onto his car. The 66-year-old wagon driver was taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center after the mishap at Passaic Avenue and Boulevard shortly after 10 a.m. Electric saws, a wood chipper and other equipment were summoned as firefighters extricated him. Passaic Avenue was closed between Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue throughout the job. Crushed.Rashon Matto

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
COVID-19 Crackdown: $10K In Illegal Alcohol Seized, 5 Newark Bars Closed For Slew Of Violations COVID-19 Crackdown: $10K In Illegal Alcohol Seized, 5 Newark Bars Closed For Slew Of Violations
Covid-19 Crackdown: $10K In Illegal Alcohol Seized, 5 Newark Bars Closed For Slew Of Violations Newark's COVID-19 task force closed five bars and lounges violating city health orders, seized nearly $10,000 worth of illegal alcohol and arrested two people who organized a massive warehouse party Halloween weekend, authorities said. The locations were operating above capacity limits, failed to enforce the use of face masks, serving illegal alcohol and more, Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. The Task Force on Friday confiscated illegal alcohol valued at $10,000 and arrested two people who organized a massive warehouse party, officials said. The …

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by Cecilia Levine
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High Winds Knock Power To Thousands Of New Jersey Residents High Winds Knock Power To Thousands Of New Jersey Residents
High Winds Knock Power To Thousands Of New Jersey Residents High winds toppled trees and power lines across New Jersey, leaving tens of thousands of residents in the cold, authorities said. More than 25,000 electric customers were without power early Monday afternoon, according to the Garden State’s major utility companies. JCP&L reported the most outages as of 3:20 p.m. Those were in Morris (975), Ocean (1,250) and Sussex (1,083) as of 3:20 p.m. Winds of more than 30 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph helped plunge temperatures down into the 30s.  We’ve received reports of ~14,000 power outages across the state due to the strong winds💨 today.…

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by Jon Craig
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Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen
Ex-AC Basketball Star Whose Paterson Heroin Killed 48 Users Gets 11 Years In Fed Pen A former basketball star who led a Paterson-to-Atlantic-City drug ring that peddled heroin connected to 48 heroin overdose deaths and 84 other ODs was sentenced Monday to 135 months in federal prison. Khalif Toombs, 31, of Egg Harbor Township previously admitted directing an operation that regularly brought heroin by the kilo from Paterson into Atlantic City. FBI agents used wiretaps, video surveillance, confidential informants and more to infiltrate the organization, which sold heroin in bags stamped with, among other names, “AK-47,” “Apple,” “Fortnite,” “Rolex,” “Frank Lucas,” “Bentley,” …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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'Cause For Concern': State Police Looking To ID, Charge Drivers In Parkway Trump Parade 'Cause For Concern': State Police Looking To ID, Charge Drivers In Parkway Trump Parade
'Cause For Concern': State Police Looking To ID, Charge Drivers In Parkway Trump Parade Authorities in New Jersey are working to identify and charge drivers who participated in Sunday's "Jews For Trump" caravan that backed up parts of the Garden State Parkway for miles, NJSP Col. Pat Callahan said Monday. "When [people] endanger the ways of those traveling on highways and byways, there really are no excuses for it," he said during Gov. Phil Murphy's COVID-19 briefing. "It gave us great cause for concern." The parade through Westchester, NY and North Jersey stopped traffic on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and for. nearly five miles along the Garden State Parkway. No cita…

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by Cecilia Levine
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WINNERS: Lucky NJ Lottery Tickets Worth $100K, $10K Sold In Ocean, Middlesex Counties WINNERS: Lucky NJ Lottery Tickets Worth $100K, $10K Sold In Ocean, Middlesex Counties
Winners: Lucky NJ Lottery Tickets Worth $100K, $10K Sold In Ocean, Middlesex Counties Two lucky state lottery tickets were sold along the Jersey Shore, officials said. A winning Jersey Cash 5 ticket worth $100,000 was sold in Ocean County and a Mega Millions ticket worth $10,000 was sold in Middlesex County, officials said on Monday. The Jersey Cash 5 winner matched all five numbers drawn to take home Friday's $100,000 prize. The winning Jersey Cash 5 numbers drawn on Oct. 30 were: 23, 26, 30, 34, and 42 and the XTRA number was: 02. The retailer, Paper Hut, at 730 Jamaica Blvd., in Toms River will receive a bonus check for $2,000 for the winning Also on Frid…

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by Jon Craig
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South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy
South Jersey Man Snared By FBI Admits Producing Videos Of Sex With Pre-Teen Boy A South Jersey man busted by the FBI admitted Monday that he made and distributed videos and other images of sex with an underage boy. Andrew Nicholas, 24, of Williamstown, was caught after he sent some of the images to an undercover federal agent in a Kik Messenger group in February 2019, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. The photos and videos depict explicit sex involving the boy and a man, with private parts exposed, that apparently were made at his home, according to an FBI complaint on file in federal court in Camden. Nicholas, who accepted a deal rather than go to trial, has and wi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home
Apparent Medical Episode Precedes Crash Into Glen Rock Home The results of a medical exam will determine whether summonses are in store for a Glen Rock driver whose car barreled across a sidewalk and lawn and into another borough resident’s house, authorities said. The crash occurred on Lincoln Avenue, directly across from Van Winkle Avenue, after the 62-year-old driver appeared to suffer some type of medical emergency just after 11 a.m. Sunday, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The motorist, who seemed “pretty out of it,” drove off the property and continued a short distance onto Van Winkle Avenue, Ackermann said. Police recovered the vehicle befo…

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'Dangerous, Reckless' Trump Caravan Clogs Garden State Parkway, Cuomo Bridge 'Dangerous, Reckless' Trump Caravan Clogs Garden State Parkway, Cuomo Bridge
'Dangerous, Reckless' Trump Caravan Clogs Garden State Parkway, Cuomo Bridge A caravan of cars sporting Trump 2020 and Israeli flags jammed up parts of North Jersey and Westchester County Sunday. Footage of the parade reportedly lead by a Jewish group in support of President Donald Trump shows drivers getting out of their cars and halting traffic on the Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and Garden State Parkway. The parade stopped briefly at rally in the West Nyack Palisades Center, but continued on toward another in Union County, reports say. The caravan backed the northbound side of the Garden State Parkway up nearly five miles, police said. JEWS FOR @realDonaldTru…

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COVID-19: 2nd Bergen County District Delays Classroom Learning Until 2021 COVID-19: 2nd Bergen County District Delays Classroom Learning Until 2021
Covid-19: 2nd Bergen County District Delays Classroom Learning Until 2021 A second Bergen County school district has delayed classroom learning until 2021 due to COVID-19. Englewood schools were set to reopen Nov. 9. Superintendent Robert Kravitz, however, told parents that remote learning had been extended until Jan. 19, NorthJersey.com reports. Kravitz said nine students had tested positive for the virus or were quarantined. The Garfield School District was the first in Bergen County to delay in-person learning until January 2021. Boonton (Morris County) and Newark schools also postponed classroom learning until next year due to the virus.

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by Cecilia Levine