COVID-19: Pfizer Nearing Release Of Vaccine For Children Ages 12 -15, FDA Says COVID-19: Pfizer Nearing Release Of Vaccine For Children Ages 12 -15, FDA Says
Covid-19: Pfizer Nearing Release Of Vaccine For Children Ages 12 -15, FDA Says The U.S. Food and Drug Administration could authorize Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for children ages 12 to 15 as early as next week, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing federal officials.  The timing could not be better for school districts that are resuming in-person instruction and hoping for a full return to normalcy next fall.  Vaccinating children is also a crucial element in achieving heard immunity and decreasing numbers of hospitalizations and deaths, The Times says.  While NJ, NY and CT positive rates have been dropping, other states including Pen…
Police: Stolen Gun, Drugs Seized From Philly Couple In Hackensack Stop Police: Stolen Gun, Drugs Seized From Philly Couple In Hackensack Stop
Police: Stolen Gun, Drugs Seized From Philly Couple In Hackensack Stop Hackensack detectives found a Philadelphia couple carrying a stolen handgun and drugs during a traffic stop, authorities said. Narcotics Squad Detectives Kley Peralta and Reuven Lyak stopped the 2015 Acura sedan at the intersection of River and Kansas streets for equipment violations shortly before 7:30 p.m. Monday, Detective Capt. Daniel DeWitt said. The driver, Darinel Perez-Burgos, 28, “had a suspended driver's license and said he did not know who owned the car,” DeWitt said. The passenger, 21-year-old dental assistant Jelayna Sevilla, “provided a suspended Delaware driver's license and…
Feds: Ex-South Jersey Lawyer Gambled Away Investor’s $2.4M In Phony Eagles Season Tix Scheme Feds: Ex-South Jersey Lawyer Gambled Away Investor’s $2.4M In Phony Eagles Season Tix Scheme
Feds: Ex-South Jersey Lawyer Gambled Away Investor’s $2.4M In Phony Eagles Season Tix Scheme A disgraced South Jersey attorney with a confessed gambling habit was busted by federal agents for conning an investor out of $2.4 million in a loan scheme involving supposed Philadelphia Eagles season ticket holders, authorities said. Frank N. Tobolsky, 59, of Cherry Hill told the Delaware investor he was funding loans for clients using season ticket licenses as collateral, an indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Camden says. There were no clients, it says. Tobolsky gambled “a substantial portion” of the money at Atlantic City casinos, among other personal uses, Acting U.S. Attor…
‘Beautiful Soul' Bergen Native,  16, Killed In Delaware Crash ‘Beautiful Soul' Bergen Native,  16, Killed In Delaware Crash
‘Beautiful Soul' Bergen Native, 16, Killed In Delaware Crash A funeral service for Margaret "Maggie" Browne, a 16-year-old Wyckoff native who was killed in an ATV crash in Delaware this week, will be streamed from the church. “I not only knew this beautiful soul but I got the chance to coach her,” wrote Brianna Johnson of the Shore Pride All Stars competitive cheerleading team in Millsboro, DE. “She was definitely one of a kind. Words cannot explain how everyone is feeling.” The team itself wrote that Maggie, who’d previously been with the CC Champs of Waldwick, “brought a smile to everyone she was around and was a friend to anyone she came in c…
Feds: Armed Fugitive In 7-Hour Hudson Hotel Standoff Was ‘Prepared For War,’ ‘Ready To Die’ Feds: Armed Fugitive In 7-Hour Hudson Hotel Standoff Was ‘Prepared For War,’ ‘Ready To Die’
Feds: Armed Fugitive In 7-Hour Hudson Hotel Standoff Was ‘Prepared For War,’ ‘Ready To Die’ UPDATE: A heavily-armed fugitive who held tactical officers at bay for nearly seven hours at a Secaucus hotel told police that he was “prepared for war” and “ready to die,” the U.S. attorney for New Jersey said Monday. ATF agents charged Rahim Harris, 42, of Maplewood, with being a convicted felon in possession of weapons and ammo, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced. His wife, Haneefha White, 39, of Pottsville, PA, who was with him, is charged with aiding and abetting the possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon. Authorities said they found eight loaded wea…
Rabbi Recognizes NJ State Trooper Who Pulled Him Over As Long Lost Friend From Middle School Rabbi Recognizes NJ State Trooper Who Pulled Him Over As Long Lost Friend From Middle School
Rabbi Recognizes NJ State Trooper Who Pulled Him Over As Long Lost Friend From Middle School Rabbi Shloime Greenwald and New Jersey State Trooper David Kohn hadn't seen each other for 22 years. That was until last Wednesday, when the trooper pulled a car over for speeding on the NJ Turnpike -- and Greenwald was in the passenger's seat. Greenwald and a coworker were heading home to Crown Heights from Delaware when Kohn sounded his sirens and stopped them for speeding on the northbound side of the highway in Mount Laurel, New Jersey State Police told Daily Voice. Kohn asked the driver for his license and registration, and immediately recognized the man in the passenger's seat as Gr…
GOTCHA: Multi-State Jewel Thief Linked To $187K In NJ Heists Nabbed By US Marshals GOTCHA: Multi-State Jewel Thief Linked To $187K In NJ Heists Nabbed By US Marshals
Gotcha: Multi-State Jewel Thief Linked To $187K In NJ Heists Nabbed By US Marshals A fugitive sought for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry from stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has been arrested by U.S. Marshals in Delaware, authorities said. Michael Larbi, 22, of Dover, Delaware was charged on Wednesday with second-degree theft by Evesham police, the Burlington County police department announced. Larbi is accused of stealing jewelry from several South Jersey stores, including in Hainesport and Haddon Heights. The spree began on Oct. 28, 2020, when he took more than $77,000 in jewelry from Billig Jewelers at 330 South Route 73, Evesham police said…
Feds: Former Bergen Resident From CT Embezzled $540,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm Feds: Former Bergen Resident From CT Embezzled $540,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm
Feds: Former Bergen Resident From CT Embezzled $540,000 From Ridgefield Park Security Firm A former Bergen County resident now living in Connecticut embezzled $540,000 intended for a local company that she diverted into a PayPal account for herself, her husband and a co-worker, federal authorities charged. A federal judge in Connecticut ordered Melissa Corso, 50, of Groton, held pending transfer to New Jersey to face wire fraud charges after the FBI arrested her on Thursday. Corso and her husband lived in Closter when she worked for a Delaware-based security systems supplier with an office in Ridgefield Park, federal authorities said. For more than six years, beginning in early …
Report: Amazon Driver Dumping Packages In NJ Woods Told Police They Were Feces Report: Amazon Driver Dumping Packages In NJ Woods Told Police They Were Feces
Report: Amazon Driver Dumping Packages In NJ Woods Told Police They Were Feces An Amazon driver caught dumping packages into a South Jersey wooded area tried telling police the items were feces, according to a recent news report. The deliveryman later identified as Desmond Gould, 23, of Delaware, was spotted by a Logan Township (Gloucester County) police officer on Route 130 Nov. 2, throwing a large box from the van into the woods, NJ.com reports. An affidavit says Gould told the officer he was throwing his feces into the woods, but after the officer checked, he found that they were really undelivered packages that Gould had no intention of delivering, police said. A…
Tornado Watch In Effect For Parts Of South, Central Jersey Tornado Watch In Effect For Parts Of South, Central Jersey
Tornado Watch In Effect For Parts Of South, Central Jersey A tornado watch is in effect for parts of New Jersey, the National Weather Service said on Monday afternoon. The watch, which includes hail, flooding and high wind warnings, extends until 7 p.m., according to the NWS out of Mount Holly and Philadelphia. There also were numerous reports of widespread electricity outages due to the high winds and downed power lines. Currently, the watch includes Atlantic and Mercer counties and extends as far north as Monmouth County.  There is a tornado watch in effect for five states including parts of New Jersey.National Weather Service The tornado w…
2 Drivers Airlifted In 3 Car Jersey Shore Crash 2 Drivers Airlifted In 3 Car Jersey Shore Crash
2 Drivers Airlifted In 3 Car Jersey Shore Crash Two drivers were airlifted with serious injuries in a three-car Stafford Township crash Friday, authorities said. A 61-year-old Manahawkin woman was stopped in her 2000 Mazda Miata in the right lane on Route 72 at Marsha Drive when she was struck by a 2001 Nissan Altima, operated by an 82-year-old Ship Bottom man around 10:30 a.m., police said. A 2016 Honda CRV operated by a 75-year-old Delaware woman, stopped in the left lane, was struck by the cars on impact, police said. The Mazda and Nissan drivers were seriously injured, and airlifted by Hackensack Medical & Robert Wood Johns…
Jersey Shore Motorists Rescued From Rising Floodwaters: 'Turn Around, Don't Drown' Jersey Shore Motorists Rescued From Rising Floodwaters: 'Turn Around, Don't Drown'
Jersey Shore Motorists Rescued From Rising Floodwaters: 'Turn Around, Don't Drown' Steady rain brought some instant misery for motorists in Central Jersey, authorities said. Firefighters were called to Sea Bright on Friday morning on a report that multiple vehicles were stuck in rising floods.  First responders were helping remove some of the drivers from their stranded vehicles on the 1400 block of Ocean Avenue, according to an initial reports.  Sea Bright Fire Rescue posted video of cars daring rising floodwater here on its Facebook page.  "Turn Around Don’t Drown!!" the firefighters warned. "Another miserable day ahead with a cold rain and some wet sn…