A Passaic man faces several years in state prison for walking away from a Route 21 crash that seriously injured a Newark driver.Jurors in Paterson convicted Elijarh Hogges, 32, on Thursday of aggravated assault, assault by auto, leaving the scene of a crash resulting in serious injury and victim endangerment following a week-long trial in Superior Court.Hogges drove a 2013 Audi Q5 ...

A woman picking up her children from a Woodland Park elementary school Wednesday afternoon was mistakenly thought to be trying to lure a youngster into her minivan, police said Thursday.The woman was standing in front of the Beatrice Gilmore School (grades 3-4) at dismissal when the child mistakenly interpreted her actions, Woodland Park police said."After a thorough investigation it ...

Rescuers recovered the body of a 21-year-old man who jumped to his death Thursday afternoon from the lower level of the George Washington Bridge.Port Authority police alerted the NYPD Harbor Unit after finding an abandoned vehicle on the Manhattan-bound side shortly before 12:30 p.m.The unit brought the body to the Ross Dock in the Fort Lee section of Palisades Interstate Park a short ...

Although things seemed calm Thursday, forecasters said a powerful Nor'easter that slammed into North Jersey the night before, flooding streets and toppling trees, wasn't gone yet.Trees struck two houses in Hawthorne, as well as in:Glen Rock on Edgemont Road;Hackensack on Kansas Street;Franklin Lakes on Dakota Trail; Ho-Ho-Kus on Brookside Avenue.They also downed utility lines in various ...

A 67-year-old Passaic woman who walked out of a hospital overnight Thursday wearing only a light gown and yellow socks was found and returned before lunchtime, authorities said.A resident who found Yolanda Roa sleeping on a porch a few blocks from St. Mary's Hospital dialed 911 and a responding officer identified her, Passaic Police Chief Luis Guzman said."She's in good health, being ...

A gas leak forced the temporary evacuation of some homes in a Fair Lawn neighborhood Thursday morning.Contractors penetrated the high-pressure main line at Franciscan Way and Plaza Road North just after 8 a.m.Police, firefighters and PSE&G responded.

Federal authorities have smashed the world’s largest dark web child porn marketplace, arresting a whopping 337 people around the world – some of them in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- all thanks to bitcoin.To sniff out the network, investigators used a unique strategy."Welcome to Video" was one of the first websites of its kind to monetize exploitation videos of infants, ...

A Carlstadt ambulance transporting a patient struck the mirror of a pickup truck Wednesday afternoon in Hasbrouck Heights, requiring another rig.The 41-year-old Maywood driver of a Ford F-250 was headed north on Terrace Avenue near Kipp Avenue when the ambulance came up behind shortly before 4:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Michael Colaneri Jr. said.The Ford, which has large mirrors, “didn’t ...

A former national demolition company senior vice president from Wyckoff was sentenced Wednesday to six months in federal prison and six months of home confinement for taking $341,052 in payoffs from a scrap metal company.A judge in U.S. District Court in Newark also ordered that Frank Aiello, 54, pay full restitution.Aiello worked as a senior vice president at an unnamed demolition and ...

Authorities investigating an August shooting in Paterson wound up charging both the accused gunman and another city man who they said was involved in an incident months earlier.Ex-con Jetor Brown, 25, was charged with shooting a 19-year-old city man on Park Avenue on Aug. 24, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint announcement ...