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ICY MORNING (UPDATE): One Dead, Highways Closed, Dozens Injured In North Jersey Crashes ICY MORNING (UPDATE): One Dead, Highways Closed, Dozens Injured In North Jersey Crashes
ICY Morning (Update): One Dead, Highways Closed, Dozens Injured In North Jersey Crashes UPDATE: One victim was confirmed dead and westbound Route 3 in East Rutherford was temporarily closed Wednesday morning following what was the most serious in a series of crashes on icy North Jersey roads. Here's a listing of incidents. Mark Kolta, 31, of North Bergen had been involved in an earlier chain-reaction crash on the Hackensack River bridge on westbound Route 3 shortly after 6:30 a.m., East Rutherford Deputy Police Chief Phillip Taormina said. He was struck in another pileup after getting out of his vehicle, the deputy chief said. Kolta was pronounced dead at a local hospital a …

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Police: News Story About Stolen Car Crash Helps ID Bergen Costco Car Burglar Police: News Story About Stolen Car Crash Helps ID Bergen Costco Car Burglar
Police: News Story About Stolen Car Crash Helps ID Bergen Costco Car Burglar No sooner had a repeat offender been released from the Bergen County Jail after crashing a car stolen out of Teaneck than he was back behind bars again. This time, Moonachie police said they caught him trying to steal a car from the Costco parking lot off Routes 17 and 46. Joseph Murphy, 34, of Scranton, PA wasn't carrying ID, but police recognized him from a Daily Voice story published just hours earlier about the stolen car crash. Teaneck police busted Murphy earlier this week for stealing packages off porches. They released him, after which he was caught trespassing in an office buildin…

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Here's Anti-Trump/GOP Manifesto Left With Ball Bearings Outside Bergen Residents' Homes Here's Anti-Trump/GOP Manifesto Left With Ball Bearings Outside Bergen Residents' Homes
Here's Anti-Trump/GOP Manifesto Left With Ball Bearings Outside Bergen Residents' Homes UPDATE: A political manifesto of sorts that was left along with a ball bearings in zip-locked bags outside the homes of dozens of Bergen County residents includes a portrait of former President Trump with blood on his hands and dripping from the roof of the White House. The writer who left the bags in residents' driveways and walkways in Closter and Demarest early Wednesday claims to be a former Republican who claims that apparently patriotic neighbors had hidden “deplorable tendencies” that have emerged in the downfall of the former president. Motivated by Trump – whom he calls a variety …

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Dozens Of NJ Residents Find Anti-Trump/GOP Propaganda, Ball Bearing In Bags Outside Homes Dozens Of NJ Residents Find Anti-Trump/GOP Propaganda, Ball Bearing In Bags Outside Homes
Dozens Of NJ Residents Find Anti-Trump/GOP Propaganda, Ball Bearing In Bags Outside Homes UPDATE: A political manifesto of sorts that was left along with a ball bearings in zip-locked bags outside the homes of dozens of Bergen County residents includes a portrait of former President Trump with blood on his hands and dripping from the roof of the White House. The writer who left the bags in residents' driveways and walkways in Closter and Demarest early Wednesday claims to be a former Republican who claims that apparently patriotic neighbors had hidden “deplorable tendencies” that have emerged in the downfall of the former president. Motivated by Trump – whom he calls a variety …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say
Closter Bicyclist, 63, Seriously Injured, Police Say A 63-year-old bicyclist was flown to a local hospital by a medical chopper after he was struck Sunday afternoon in Closter, authorities said. The victim was found lying face down, bleeding and unconscious – but breathing – after he was struck by a Toyota Camry shortly after 1:30 p.m. at the corner of Knickerbocker Road and Harington Avenue, Sgt. Daniel Hargrave said. The bicyclist was traveling northbound on Knickerbocker Road when the southbound vehicle hit him while making left onto Harrington Avenue, police said.A medical chopper landed at Tenakill Field and took the victim to Hackensack…

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by Jerry DeMarco