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Hundreds Turn Out For Funeral Of Former Pascack Valley HS Football Captain Devin Wolfe, 30 Hundreds Turn Out For Funeral Of Former Pascack Valley HS Football Captain Devin Wolfe, 30
Hundreds Turn Out For Funeral Of Former Pascack Valley HS Football Captain Devin Wolfe, 30 Joe Wolfe always knew his son was well-liked, but he didn't fully understand how loved he was until his funeral last week. Devin Wolfe, 30, who grew up in River Vale, died in a car accident on Long Island on Saturday, Sept. 9. His former teammates, friends from childhood, peers from college at Johnson & Wales University, coworkers, coaches, teachers, and relatives flew and drove out to Bergen County for Devin's services Thursday, Sept. 14 and Friday, Sept. 15. Seeing the nearly one thousand of them lining up for visitation at Becker Funeral Home and spilling out of pews at the funeral…

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by Cecilia Levine
Sports
How New Jersey's 'Deaf Strongman' Found Happiness Amid Hearing Loss How New Jersey's 'Deaf Strongman' Found Happiness Amid Hearing Loss
How New Jersey's 'Deaf Strongman' Found Happiness Amid Hearing Loss The moment Nick Gentile lost his hearing will never leave him. The Fort Lee native was working as a salesman, and was on a sales call, when suddenly his hearing disappeared from his left ear. Gentile had been having hearing troubles in both ears since elementary school, but he never thought it would come to that. The now-28-year-old walked out of work that day nearly deaf in his right ear and fully deaf in his left. He went on disability for months, the gym his sanctuary, as he made sense of his new life. Lifting with a focus on becoming a professional powerlifter — along with helping ot…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
UPDATE: Missing Woman Found Safe UPDATE: Missing Woman Found Safe
Update: Missing Woman Found Safe UPDATE: The woman has been found safe and unharmed. ORIGINAL STORY: Authorities are seeking the public's help locating a woman who they say was last seen at Newark Penn Station. Magdalena Diaz was last seen by her mom at the New Jersey train station on March 21 at 1:15 p.m., according to NJ Transit officials. Diaz was captured two days later on surveillance footage at Penn Station in New York around 7 a.m., NJ Transit officials tell Daily Voice. Diaz is known to have severe learning deficiencies, mental health disabilities and physical limitations. Anyone who sees her or who knows where …

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Authorities: Street Evangelist Stalked Englewood Abortion Doc With Drone Authorities: Street Evangelist Stalked Englewood Abortion Doc With Drone
Authorities: Street Evangelist Stalked Englewood Abortion Doc With Drone A self-described Christian missionary from Westchester was arrested after Englewood police said he used a drone to peer into the second-floor office of an abortion doctor he was stalking. Daniel Stephen Courney, 36, of Scarsdale, NY was caught piloting the device -- equipped with a camera and speaker -- outside Metropolitan Medical Associates on Engle Street, where he and other pro-lifers have frequently protested over the years, Detective Capt. Timothy Torell said. Detective Ron Layne learned that Courney had been terrorizing the doctor over a four-month period by “purposely and repeatedl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Neighbors Say They're Being Terrorized By Escaped West Milford Group Home Patients Neighbors Say They're Being Terrorized By Escaped West Milford Group Home Patients
Neighbors Say They're Being Terrorized By Escaped West Milford Group Home Patients First he smashed garage windows and ripped out a light fixture. Then he was banging his body against a front door trying to get inside. This is how West Milford neighbors are saying a patient who escaped a nearby group home has been terrorizing them, according to a report in NorthJersey.com. The home on Longhouse Drive is run by Bellwether Behavioral Health for people with disabilities and psychological conditions in treatment programs. The incidents and the home are under investigation by the state Department of Human Services, the report says. Some of the patients have traits including "…

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by Cecilia Levine