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NJ Family Dead In NY Plane Crash: State Police
A 2-year-old New Jersey girl, her mother, and her grandfather pilot were killed in a small plane crash just after taking off from the Adirondack Regional Airport in New York this week.
Guiliana Hillgrube, her 33-year-old mother Gabriella, and her 70-year-old grandfather Gabriele Jasper, were identified on Wednesday, July 15 as the victims of the crash two days prior, according to New York State Police.
Jasper, a Brick Township-based spine doctor and Toms River resident, was piloting the plane, police said. Hillgrube and her daughter, of Forked River, were passengers. Less than two week…
Husband's Plea For ICE Help Backfires After Internet Connects The Dots To Jersey Shore Assault
Matthew Geroni turned to TikTok, hoping strangers would help save his wife from ICE custody. Instead, they reminded him why she was there, and with little sympathy.
Gerroni, of Brick Township, filmed a TikTok video of himself crying as he drove just after his wife, Kaitlyn Tracey, had been arrested after police said she hit a child in an argument over patriotic sweatpants on the Point Pleasant boardwalk. The sweatpants had the words "ICE" and "Trump" on them, according to NJ Advance Media.
In his video, Geroni explained that Tracey, a 33-year-old Canadian national, was being detai…
Dark Skies, Bright Streaks: Perseid Meteor Shower Starts With Spectacular Peak Coming
A stunning spectacle is beginning to stir just as the summer night sky offers a timely assist.
The moon turns new on Tuesday, July 14, creating dark conditions as Earth enters the outer edge of the Perseid meteor shower's debris stream, according to Space.com. A few early streaks could become visible that night.
The shower's formal activity period runs from Friday, July 17, through Monday, Aug. 24, the International Meteor Organization said. Rates will begin to rise slowly over the coming weeks.
The main event is expected overnight from Wednesday, Aug. 12, into Thursday, Aug. 13. That afte…
Back-To-Back NJ Swattings Traced To NYC Skyscraper Climber: Cops
A Queens building climber with nearly 37,000 Instagram followers is accused of making two fake 911 calls that sent police rushing to the same Bergen County home hours apart, authorities said.
Officers first responded to West Prospect Street in Waldwick on March 31, after a caller later identified as Alejandro De La Torre-Cardona, 19, of East Elmhurst, NY, reported an armed person inside the home making threats, Waldwick Police Chief Troy Seifert said. Investigators determined the call originated from the home's landline, but after a thorough investigation, officers found no on…
Off-Duty CT Police Officer, Passenger Mom Of 3 Killed In Head-On Motorcycle Crash
An off-duty Bridgeport police officer and his passenger were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a Jeep, leaving the other driver hospitalized with serious injuries.
Cooper Whiteside, 38, of Danbury, and Brittany Islami, 34, of New Milford, died in the 2:45 a.m. Monday, July 13, crash on Sugar Hollow Road in Danbury, according to police.
Danbury officers arrived to find Whiteside, who was riding the Harley-Davidson, and Islami dead in the roadway. The Jeep Compass sustained severe front-end damage. Firefighters extricated the SUV driver, who was rushed to Danbury Hospital wit…
