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NJ's Scottie Scheffler Ranked #1 Following PGA Championship NJ's Scottie Scheffler Ranked #1 Following PGA Championship
NJ's Scottie Scheffler Ranked #1 Following PGA Championship Scottie Scheffler, a Bergen County native, is back on top. Scheffler is currently the #1 ranked golfer on the PGA Tour following his second place finish at the PGA Championship in Rochester, where he finished two strokes behind winner Brooks Koepeka.  At the PGA Championship, Scheffler got off to a hot start, with a -5 after two rounds. He struggled in the third round, carding a +3, but rebounded in the final round with a -5. With his second place finish, Scheffler earned $1.54 million in prize money. Last year, Scheffler became the first New Jersey native to win the Masters. The…

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by Sam Barron
Obituaries
Blake Herdlein Of Greenwich Township Dies, 26 Blake Herdlein Of Greenwich Township Dies, 26
Blake Herdlein Of Greenwich Township Dies, 26 Former New Jersey resident and Temple University graduate Blake Herdlein died on Thursday, March 9. He was 26 years old. A Rochester, NY native, Blake grew up in Greenwich Township, having attended Greenwich Elementary School, Stewartsville Middle School, Bethlehem Catholic High School, Phillipsburg High School, and Warren County Community College, his obituary says. Blake went on to graduate from Temple University's Fox School of Business, before opening his own marketing firm, Herdlein, LLC. Click here for Blake Herdlein's complete obituary from the Devlin Funeral Home.

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Carbon Monoxide Suicide Eyed In Deaths Of Brothers Found In Bergen Garage Carbon Monoxide Suicide Eyed In Deaths Of Brothers Found In Bergen Garage
Carbon Monoxide Suicide Eyed In Deaths Of Brothers Found In Bergen Garage Authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine the official causes of death of two brothers whose bodies were found in the garage of the family’s Old Tappan home in an apparent double suicide. Insuh Yoon, 36, and David Yoon, 39, were in grade school when they emigrated to the United States with their mother from Seoul, South Korea more than 25 years ago. Their bodies were found early Friday in a Nissan Rogue parked in the garage of a home at the end of a heavily wooded cul-de-sac in Old Tappan near the Rockland County border, multiple responders said. They'd been in the SUV “more …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Body Of Erotica Photographer, Brother, Found In North Jersey Garage Body Of Erotica Photographer, Brother, Found In North Jersey Garage
Body Of Erotica Photographer, Brother, Found In North Jersey Garage Authorities were awaiting autopsy results to determine the official causes of death of two brothers whose bodies were found in the garage of the family’s Old Tappan home in an apparent double suicide. Insuh Yoon, 36, and David Yoon, 39, were in grade school when they emigrated to the United States with their mother from Seoul, South Korea more than 25 years ago. Their bodies were found early Friday in a Nissan Rogue parked in the garage of a home at the end of a heavily wooded cul-de-sac in Old Tappan near the Rockland County border, multiple responders said. They'd been in the SUV “more t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two
Newark Driver Charged In Upstate NY Thruway Hit-Run Crash That Killed Two A tractor-trailer driver from Newark was extradited to New York and charged with a hit-and-run crash on the New York State Thruway that killed two people. A car slid under his rig when Quentin D. Campbell, 55, made an illegal U-turn in the Monroe County town of Wheatland, just west of Rochester, around 4:15 a.m. Sept. 4, New York State Police reported. Campbell kept going, pulled off at Exit 46, then removed a piece of debris from the rig in the parking lot of a hotel before continuing on, they said. Both victims were from Tennessee, State Police said. The driver was pronounced dead at the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Man Dies In Fall At Atlantic City Casino Man Dies In Fall At Atlantic City Casino
Man Dies In Fall At Atlantic City Casino A 30-year-old man from Upstate New York died after falling two stories to his death in an Atlantic City casino, authorities said. The man from Rochester was trying to climb over a divider when he fell from a second-level mezzanine into the lobby at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, police said. The fall occurred about 4 a.m. on Monday. Atlantic City police officers responded and found casino security performing CPR. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, a police spokesman said. Atlantic City police urged anyone with information about the fall to call its Criminal Investigations S…

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Report: 'Love & Hip Hop' Star Mendeecees Harris Released From Prison Report: 'Love & Hip Hop' Star Mendeecees Harris Released From Prison
Report: 'Love & Hip Hop' Star Mendeecees Harris Released From Prison UPDATE: VH1 “Love & Hip Hop” star Mendeecees Harris has been released from federal prison after serving nearly four years on a drug conviction, a published report says. Harris, who made headlines in North Jersey when jurors in Hackensack found him not guilty in 2013 of sexually assaulting a teenager in his Lodi home, was convicted two years later of participating in a ring that trafficked heroin and cocaine from New York City to the Rochester, NY area from 2006 to 2008. He was sentenced to eight to 10 years and was paroled after four, according to The Shade Room, which said Smith, 41, w…

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by Jerry DeMarco