A 46-year-old Short Hills man suffocated to death after falling through a gap in a chairlift and became trapped with his coat around his neck at a Colorado ski resort, authorities said.Jason Varnish's death last Thursday at Vail Mountain's Blue Sky Basin area was ruled an accident, the Vail Daily reports.The chairlift's folding seat was in its upright position, leaving an opening that ...

A plane landing at Newark Airport was met by police after a female passenger made a bomb threat in the air.Authorities removed the woman from United Flight 2329 from Chicago after landing at 9:40 p.m. a TSA spokesperson said.Officials swept the plane and found nothing dangerous on board. The woman was taken to a local hospital for evaluation.New York Daily News Knicks writer Stefan ...

A Middlesex County teacher who has coached wrestling at more than a dozen New Jersey schools is accused of sexually assaulting a teenager, court records show.John M. Denuto was suspended with pay from his job as a special education math teacher in Sayreville, reports say.He was arrested Saturday and charged with possession of child pornography, the sexual assault of a teenager and ...

TikTok users were making memorial duets using footage posted by Morris County middle schooler Maya Guberman.The Roxbury Junior Gaels cheerleader and Eisenhower Middle School eighth grader died on Feb. 13, at 13 years old.More than $41,300 had been raised as of Sunday on a GoFundMe launched by her aunt, Dana Guberman Taggart, a longtime Jefferson Township school teacher.The Toms River ...

A construction worker in cardiac arrest was airlifted to a local hospital with serious injuries after falling 30 feet from through the roof of a major Morris County construction site.The worker had fallen through the opening of a roof at the site at the Ledgewood Mall on Route 10 around 1:10 p.m. Saturday, Roxbury Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Dillard said.The victim had not ...

An Elizabeth man was being held in the Union County Jail after stabbing a 67-year-old city resident dead on Valentine's Day, authorities said.Javier Ramirez-Jimenez, 48, was charged with reckless manslaughter in the death of Carlos Ariza, Acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo said Sunday.The two men were arguing in a car on the 500 block of Elizabeth Avenue 11:45 p.m. ...

A historic Elizabeth church was destroyed by an early-morning fire just hours before Sunday services.The blaze had burned through the roof of the Shiloh Baptist Church at 95 Murray St., within minutes of erupting around 3:10 a.m.The fire reached four alarms and was under control around 6 a.m.Shiloh Baptist Church was founded in 1879, its Facebook page says. Clark Fire Department at ...

Krispy Kreme will be opening next month in Bergen County.After two company representative told Daily Voice the new East Rutherford store on Route 17 south would open Feb. 4, we had to see for ourselves if it would be ready.Well, it won't be open on Feb. 4. However, the store will be open in early March, for sure.Signage recently went up at the shop, which is replacing the former ...

Uncle Louie's Pizza will be replacing Momma's Kitchen in Montvale.Momma's announced its W. Grand Avenue location had closed on Friday on Facebook, six years after replacing 15 Grand Bistro."Bielat Santore & Company, the broker involved in the sale, said the restaurant is "in good hands" under new owner and esteemed restaurateur, Uncle Louie's owner David Brancato, who comes from ...

A 27-year-old Monmouth County man jailed for a pair of North Jersey robberies also broke into a Secaucus motel, sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint and robbed her, authorities charged.Dajan Mindingall of Eatontown forced his way into a room at the Red Roof Inn on Meadowlands Parkway around 1 a.m. Jan. 15, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement Friday.He ...