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Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon
Vehicle Plows Into Paramus Nail Salon No one was seriously injured when a wagon driven by an 83-year-old local driver slammed into a Paramus nail salon Tuesday afternoon. Vehicles that hit storefronts ordinarily don't make it in very far.  Not the 2007 Lexus RX that crashed into Bliss Nails in the Highland Shopping Center on East Ridgewood Avenue shopping center shortly around 1:45 p.m. Dec. 6. "Several people were inside the salon at the time but only one was injured," Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Members of Paramus Emergency Medical Services treated that person, a 59-year-old Paramus woman, for a minor cut …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus
Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus A bus driver with no passengers avoided injury after toppling a utility pole in Paramus. The NJ Transit bus clipped the pole on East Ridgewood Avenue adjacent to the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center shortly before 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. Paramus police and firefighters responded, along with a PSE&G crew that handled the necessary repairs. The Coach USA bus was driveable. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this article. The utility pole got the worst of it on East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus.Boyd A. Loving

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UPDATE: Detox Patient Released From NJ Hospital Steals Ambulance UPDATE: Detox Patient Released From NJ Hospital Steals Ambulance
Update: Detox Patient Released From NJ Hospital Steals Ambulance A man just released from a detox program was captured by state troopers on the Garden State Parkway after he stole an ambulance from outside Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus early Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Daniel Grant Wyres, 37, of Marlton got into the unattended ambulance and drove off from the East Ridgewood Avenue facility at 12:50 p.m., Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. The ambulance company was notified and began tracking the rig, he said. The ambulance was stopped less than 15 minutes later on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 157 in Elmwood Park,…

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NJ State Police Seize Driver Of Stolen Ambulance On Garden State Parkway NJ State Police Seize Driver Of Stolen Ambulance On Garden State Parkway
NJ State Police Seize Driver Of Stolen Ambulance On Garden State Parkway A man just released from a detox program was captured by state troopers on the Garden State Parkway after he stole an ambulance from outside Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus early Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. Daniel Grant Wyres, 37, of Marlton got into the unattended ambulance and drove off from the East Ridgewood Avenue facility at 12:50 p.m., Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. The ambulance company was notified and began tracking the rig, he said. The ambulance was stopped less than 15 minutes later on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 157 in Elmwood Park,…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot
Paramus Man Stabbed, Fleeing Roommate Captured In Mall Parking Lot A drunken argument left one Paramus boarding house resident hospitalized with a severe stab wound and another jailed, authorities said Friday. Jose Vasquez-Gonzales pulled a knife and stabbed Luis Cruz, 35, in the abdomen during a fight on the front lawn of the East Ridgewood Avenue boarding home just after midnight, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Vasquez-Gonzales, a 49-year-old Dominican national, ran toward the Fashion Center mall on Route 17 as a squadron of police vehicles converged on the area. An EMS crew from New Bridge Medical Center saw him running through the parking lot a…

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by Jerry DeMarco