UPDATE: Video shows a banner-pulling plane crashing into the Atlantic Ocean just off the beach in Surf City on Saturday.Two lifeguards plucked the pilot from the water and brought him to the 13th Street beach to the cheers of sun worshippers on the sand.He appeared OK, they said, before an ambulance took him to Southern Ocean Medical Center in Stafford Township.The plane hit the ...

UPDATE: Video shows a plane pulling a banner ad crashing into the Atlantic Ocean just off the beach in Surf City on Saturday.Lifeguards quickly plucked the pilot from the water and brought him to the 13th Street beach to the cheers of sun worshippers on the sand.He appeared OK, they said, before an ambulance took him to Southern Ocean Medical Center in Stafford Township.The plane hit ...

A 4-year-old girl was struck in the leg by a bullet during a drive-by shooting Friday night at an Elizabeth public housing complex, responders said.Police obtained a warrant for the arrest of Terry Edmonds of Elizabeth for aggravated assault and weapons offenses.The girl’s father told police they were leaving the area when a gunman fired from a silver or grey Dodge Durango SUV at ...

Firefighters kept a porch blaze from spreading to a Maywood home early Saturday.Hackensack and Rochelle Park firefighters assisted their colleagues at the 6:30 a.m. Lennox Avenue call.No injuries were reported.There was no immediate word on what ignited the fire under the porch.

SEE ANYTHING? Someone fired several shots into two vehicles in Saddle Brook early Saturday, said police who sought the public's help finding whomever was responsible.Residents on Hutter Street thought they’d heard fireworks when three holes were fired into one vehicle and two into another, Police Chief Robert Kugler said.The Bergen County Sheriff’s Bureau of Criminal Identification ...

A 1-year-old boy was killed and a 3-year-old boy suffered serious injuries when an Amazon truck struck a Maryland family’s vehicle from behind late Friday on the New Jersey Turnpike in Cranbury, authorities said.Young Messiah Gray and the other boy were passengers in a Toyota Camry driven by 24-year-old Kazara P. Leacock, who sustained injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, ...

A Paterson-based school bus company owner from Wayne and his manager hired criminals as drivers – including a registered sex offender – and covered it up, state authorities charged.Shelim Khalique, the 51-year-old owner/operator of A-1 Elegant Tours on Paterson Street, and manager Henry Rhodes, 56, of Paterson, hired drivers without background checks or mandatory drug tests while ...

Sarko Ekhsigian, our beloved father, passed away in on May 21. He was 86.Sarko was born pn Oct. 18, 1933 in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, one of four children born to Dikran and Satenig Ekhsigian. In 1959, when he was twenty-five, he emigrated to the United States with his mother and one sister. Landing in New York City, Sarko very quickly fell in love with its ...

Several motorcyclists were involved in a crash with a tractor-trailer Friday night on the New Jersey Turnpike in East Rutherford, responders said.Five ambulances were initially requested following the crash at mile marker 115 on the turnpike's western spur shortly after 11:30 p.m.At least three motorcycles were involved, responders said.CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS

A 19-year-old driver from Clifton told police he accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake when his car slammed into the front of a gas station convenience store Friday in Hackensack.Jhamir Harrison said he was pulling into a parking space at the South River Street BP station’s store when he “inadvertently depressed the gas instead of his brake” and the 200 Chevy plowed into the ...