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This New Jersey Town Is About To Get Its Seventh Starbucks Cafe This New Jersey Town Is About To Get Its Seventh Starbucks Cafe
This New Jersey Town Is About To Get Its Seventh Starbucks Cafe Is there such a thing as too many Starbucks shops? Not in Wayne. The Township Planning Board on Monday night granted the coffee giant approval to Basking Ridge-based limited liability company 1809 Route 23 Realty to build a two-tenant strip mall, according to multiple reports. There are already six other Starbucks shops in Wayne, some on Route 23: 57 NJ-23 1606 NJ-23 1118 Hamburg Tpke  2114, 183 Hamburg Tpke. 1100 Willowbrook Blvd. Willowbrook Mall The Monarch Diner will be destroyed to make room for the new cafe, which will be complete with a drive-thru.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Ridgewood Police Snare Troubled Teen In Threats Ridgewood Police Snare Troubled Teen In Threats
Ridgewood Police Snare Troubled Teen In Threats Ridgewood police detained an emotionally troubled teen Thursday afternoon after they said he threatened a local Starbucks. The call came in around 2 p.m. for someone in the 100 block of East Ridgewood Avenue who was threatening himself and others. He was found and brought to police headquarters roughly a half-hour later. Boyd A. Loving contributed to this report. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses
Judge Frees Ex-Con Accused Of Exposing Himself At Five Oakland Businesses A 28-year-old ex-con with a lengthy criminal history was ordered released from jail this week after Oakland police charged him with exposing himself five different times in town the same day. Kassan Drakeford exposed himself in five different establishments -- including a nail salon and a Starbucks -- before being taken into custody on Monday, Oakland Police Lt. Christian Eldridge said. There were children under 13 at some of the establishments, he said. Despite Drakeford's history, the nature of the crimes and a drug arrest from earlier this year, records show that a judge freed him from …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Business
Starbucks Will Close More Than 8K Stores For Day Of Racial-Bias Training Starbucks Will Close More Than 8K Stores For Day Of Racial-Bias Training
Starbucks Will Close More Than 8K Stores For Day Of Racial-Bias Training More than 8,000 Starbucks will be closed during the afternoon for one day next month as the company conducts racial-bias education following racial complaints at several stores and the highly publicized arrests of two African-Americans at a Philadelphia store. The training will be provided to more than 175,000 employees across the country on Tuesday, May 29, led by nationally recognized efforts, and will become part of new protocols for new employees, company officials announced on Tuesday. The two men arrested at the Philadelphia location were arrested after sitting in the store without bu…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
88-Year-Old Hit-Run Driver Surrenders After Ramming Paramus Patrol Car 88-Year-Old Hit-Run Driver Surrenders After Ramming Paramus Patrol Car
88-Year-Old Hit-Run Driver Surrenders After Ramming Paramus Patrol Car An 88-year-old woman turned herself in to police Sunday evening after her car struck a marked Paramus patrol cruiser and kept going, authorities said. Police were responding to reports of a 4-month-old baby who had stopped breathing when the woman's black Mercedes Benz hit the driver's side door of the police car parked on Oradell Avenue, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. The officer wasn't inside the vehicle at the time and no injuries were reported, Ehrenberg said. The baby was in stable condition and an investigation was under way, the chief said. On Friday, a 103-year-old driver cr…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Driver, 103, Slams Car Into Hackensack Starbucks Driver, 103, Slams Car Into Hackensack Starbucks
Driver, 103, Slams Car Into Hackensack Starbucks HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A 103-year-old driver shifted his car into drive instead of reverse Friday and slammed it into a Hackensack Starbucks. The city man, who turns 104 in just weeks, wasn't injured, authorities said. The front of the Essex Street coffee shop sustained broken windows and other damage, however, after the 2017 four-door Ford sedan rammed into it at 1:40 p.m.  "He accidentally put his car in drive instead of reverse and it went over the park stop," Capt. Francesco Aquila, the officer in charge of the department, told Daily Voice. "Then he panicked and hit the gas…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Fit Cops: Paramus Detective Is Jiu Jitsu Black Belt Fit Cops: Paramus Detective Is Jiu Jitsu Black Belt
Fit Cops: Paramus Detective Is Jiu Jitsu Black Belt PARAMUS, N.J. -- Mark Pinajian was responding to a fraud in progress at a Paramus department store last year when a suspect fleeing from security ran into him. The Paramus police detective had to think fast. He was all alone. He had to find a way to apprehend the man. Swiftly. Safely. Systematically. With unparalleled reflexes and little time to plan, Pinajian pinned the suspect up against the wall before tripping him down to the ground. The final move the detective deployed was a common one he mastered over the past 12 years as a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighter: a shoulder lock. And with th…

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by Cecilia Levine