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UPDATE: Drowning Baby Pulled From Backyard Paramus Pool Transferred To Mount Sinai UPDATE: Drowning Baby Pulled From Backyard Paramus Pool Transferred To Mount Sinai
Update: Drowning Baby Pulled From Backyard Paramus Pool Transferred To Mount Sinai UPDATE: A 1-year-old boy was clinging to life after his mother pulled him from their backyard pool in Paramus, authorities said. Officers rushed to an emergency call at the Beechwood Drive home shortly before 7 p.m. Monday and found the woman conducting CPR, responders said. The officers took over the life-saving measure for about 20 minutes, they said. Paramus EMS -- escorted by police -- then took the infant to the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where a pulse was restored, Deputy Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. The baby was later transferred to Mt. Sinai Hospital in …

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NJ Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's House Arrested Again NJ Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's House Arrested Again
NJ Man Once Accused Of Flinging Feces At Neighbor's House Arrested Again A noisy steam pipe has again triggered a Ho-Ho-Kus man who once stored his own excrement and shot it at his neighbor's house, authorities said. William J. Krywos, 49, has had a history of run-ins with the law, including causing a mid-1990s blackout that affected more than 32,000 Bergen County customers. More recently, Krywos had a series of conflicts with no fewer than three different residents who've lived next door to his Duncan Road home over the years -- always in the winter, police said. The way defense attorney Frank Lucianna once explained it, "there is a pipe on his neighbor’s hous…

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WATCH: Commuter Abuses NJ Train Conductor With Racial, Sexual Epithets WATCH: Commuter Abuses NJ Train Conductor With Racial, Sexual Epithets
Watch: Commuter Abuses NJ Train Conductor With Racial, Sexual Epithets Disturbing cellphone video recorded on a New Jersey Transit train shows a man accused of assaulting a conductor spewing hateful profanity against him. The video was shot by Kore James of Paterson, who said he stopped recording and rushed to the conductor's aid when things got physical at the Ridgewood train station. James, a 28-year-old landscape architect, said Thomas Vitulano was already on the the Hoboken-bound train when he got on Monday afternoon in Allendale. "The conductor that was punching holes in tickets was coming around checking everyone's ticket," he said. "The gentleman didn…

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Commuter Accused Of Assaulting NJ Transit Conductor Identified Commuter Accused Of Assaulting NJ Transit Conductor Identified
Commuter Accused Of Assaulting NJ Transit Conductor Identified UPDATE: A commuter from Weehawken remained jailed after authorities said he assaulted and then spit on an NJ Transit conductor at the Ridgewood train station. Thomas Vitulano, 30, got into it with the conductor on the Hoboken-bound train and then pursued him onto the platform, where he spit at him, witnesses said following Monday afternoon’s incident. What the dispute purportedly was about wasn't immediately disclosed. A good Samaritan came to the conductor's aid before responding Ridgewood police officers seized Vitulano and held him for NJ Transit police. The conductor, meanwhile, was t…

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HERO: Bergen Dealership GM Rescues Missing Wrong-Way Jersey Shore Driver, 78 HERO: Bergen Dealership GM Rescues Missing Wrong-Way Jersey Shore Driver, 78
Hero: Bergen Dealership GM Rescues Missing Wrong-Way Jersey Shore Driver, 78 Vehicles whizzed by as a disoriented 78-year-old driver more than 140 miles from home headed into oncoming traffic on a treacherous stretch of Route 4 in Fair Lawn. Don Chittum, the general manager at Jack Daniels Volkswagen, looked out Tuesday night to see the man’s Corolla stranded on the concrete divider between Broadway and the highway. What Chittum didn’t know was that the Jersey Shore driver had been reported missing earlier. He just knew that he was in serious trouble. The man apparently made a left instead of a right out of the furniture store lot next to the dealership and was h…

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by Jerry DeMarco