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Wanaque Dad's Suicide Leap With Sons Tops Passaic County News Last Week

PASSAIC COUNTY, N.J. — Here's a look at the five stories that topped news in Passaic County last week:

John Spincken

John Spincken

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DAD JUMPS HOLDING KIDS: Friends knew the couple was having trouble, but no one could have dreamed that John Spincken would snatch up their two boys after a fight with his wife, drive to the Route 287 bridge over the Wanaque River and jump 100 feet with them in his arms Monday night.

CAMPAIGN FOR 'MIRACLE' BROTHERS: More than $14,000 had been raised as of Thursday morning on a GoFundMe page to aid the family of two young boys who survived their father's suicide off a Route 287 bridge in Wanaque.

CLIFTON LAWYER JAILED: A Clifton attorney was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday for conspiring to steal just over $800,000 from lenders by using stolen or bogus IDs to file fraudulent mortgage loan applications.

MAHWAH TEEN DIES:  A 17-year-old Mahwah High School student was killed after a car he was a passenger in slammed into a tree Saturday night, authorities confirmed Sunday morning.

TOO MUCH PIZZA?: Dan Celestina of Demarest hasn't missed pizza night in 95 weeks.

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