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Pickup Crash Snaps Paramus Pole Clean Off Pickup Crash Snaps Paramus Pole Clean Off
Pickup Crash Snaps Paramus Pole Clean Off A pickup truck slammed into a utility pole, snapping it from its base, at a busy Paramus intersection on Monday. The 57-year-old driver from Hillsdale declined medical attention after the Chevy Silverado rammed the pole, downing utility lines on Paramus Road just past Midland Avenue and off the corner of Mill Run around 8:30 a.m. March 27, Police Sgt. Michael Pollaro said. He'd apparently become disoriented before the crash, the sergeant said. The driver refused medical attention following Monday morning's crash on Paramus Road just past Midland Avenue.Boyd A. Loving Belfi's Towing rem…

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Bergen Man Claims To Be NJ TRANSIT CEO, Steals Agency Garb, Starts Bus Fire, Authorities Charge Bergen Man Claims To Be NJ TRANSIT CEO, Steals Agency Garb, Starts Bus Fire, Authorities Charge
Bergen Man Claims To Be NJ Transit CEO, Steals Agency Garb, Starts Bus Fire, Authorities Charge A Bergen County man with the same name as NJ TRANSIT's top executive claimed to be him after he was caught stealing uniforms from the agency's garage in Fairview and igniting a fire on one of its buses, authorities charged. Kevin J. Corbett, an unemployed 42-year-old Hillsdale resident, entered the facility off Anderson Avenue in street clothes before dawn Saturday, March 11, a complaint on file in Superior Court in Hackensack says. He then stole an NJ Transit raincoat, an agency uniform shirt and a roll of receipt paper, it says. Transit police responded to a call from employees who grab…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ's Livvy Dunne Promoting AI For Essay Writing On TikTok Prompts Response From LSU NJ's Livvy Dunne Promoting AI For Essay Writing On TikTok Prompts Response From LSU
NJ's Livvy Dunne Promoting AI For Essay Writing On TikTok Prompts Response From LSU Officials at Louisiana State University are apparently cautioning students after sensational gymnast and NJ native Livvy Dunne posted a TikTok promoting an educational artificial intelligence tool. Dunne, a Hillsdale native with more than 7.2 million TikTok followers, last month posted the TikTok video promoting Caktus AI. "Need to get my creativity flowing for my essay due at midnight," Dunne says in the clip. By the end of the video, Caktus AI writes an entire essay for her. Caktus markets itself as the "first ever educational artificial intelligence tool. It allows you to automate all o…

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Wheel Operators At American Dream, Three Other NJ Businesses Accused Of Exploiting Customers Wheel Operators At American Dream, Three Other NJ Businesses Accused Of Exploiting Customers
Wheel Operators At American Dream, Three Other NJ Businesses Accused Of Exploiting Customers The operators of the Dreamwheel at the American Dream Mall have been cited for forcing customers who want to pay cash to buy gift cards with surcharges, state authorities said. Skyviews of America, LLC, which operates the ferris wheel at the East Rutherford mall, was among four businesses that New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said received violation notices for either not accepting cash or charging a credit card surcharge without properly notifying consumers. Similar notices – in this case for not disclosing card surcharges – also went to Ronnie’s Hot Bagels in Hillsdale and S…

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Bogus Shooting Call Brings Police To Catholic Grammar School In Hillsdale Bogus Shooting Call Brings Police To Catholic Grammar School In Hillsdale
Bogus Shooting Call Brings Police To Catholic Grammar School In Hillsdale A bogus call of a shooting brought police to a Catholic grammar school in Bergen County. The "swatter" who made the false claim drew an immediate response to the preK3-8 St. John's Academy by police in Hillsdale mid-Monday evening (Jan. 23). They had help from, among others, their colleagues neighboring Park Ridge and River Vale, as well as the Bergen County Sheriff's Office.  Hillsdale Police Chief Robert Fracaviglia confirmed the call as swatting. An investigation was launched. Swatting exacts a toll on innocent residents, which is usually the intent. Often public figures and celeb…

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'Was That An Earthquake?' North Jersey Asks 'Was That An Earthquake?' North Jersey Asks
'Was That An Earthquake?' North Jersey Asks "What was that?" was the question that rumbled through a large swath of North Jersey and into New York State early Wednesday afternoon. Mine blasting? A sonic boom? Seneca guns? Unconfirmed reports of an earthquake or "seismic-like event" stretched from Newton and Sparta in Sussex County to as far east as the Palisades in Alpine beginning at 12:52 p.m. Jan. 11.  There were similar calls in several southern New York State counties, as well as in the Poconos in Pennsylvania. All are basically in the area of the Ramapo Fault Line. The longest and oldest in the Northeast -- at 185 m…

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Four Suffer Smoke Inhalation In Overnight Old Tappan House Fire Four Suffer Smoke Inhalation In Overnight Old Tappan House Fire
Four Suffer Smoke Inhalation In Overnight Old Tappan House Fire Four people were hospitalized for smoke inhalation from an overnight house fire in Old Tappan, responders said. The blaze in the $1 million home at the end of a cul-de-sac on Parker Place broke out in the kitchen around 2:45 a.m. It immediately went to a second alarm on arrival, with a third alarm called roughly 20 minutes later. Old Tappan firefighters were met with heavy smoke at the Parker Place fire.OLD TAPPAN FD The Parker Place house fire in Old Tappan before dawn Saturday, Nov. 19 quickly went to three alarms.WOODCLIFF LAKE FD Firefighters had the blaze knocked down and under…

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Park Ridge Family Loses All In Fire, Relatively Minor Injuries Reported Park Ridge Family Loses All In Fire, Relatively Minor Injuries Reported
Park Ridge Family Loses All In Fire, Relatively Minor Injuries Reported Loved ones and friends are rallying for a Park Ridge couple and their three young children who lost just about everything in a fire that sent four firefighters to the hospital. Authorities are investigating the cause of the two-alarm blaze, which broke out in the Henry Avenue home of Matt and Lisa Patterson shortly before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9. Meanwhile, family friend Janet Zakrzewska launched a GoFundMe campaign to help the family. GO TO: Tragic House Fire - Matt and Lisa Patterson "They are the most hardworking, genuine, kind-hearted and giving people that we know!!" Zakrzewska …

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$10K Mega Millions Winner Sold In Bergen County $10K Mega Millions Winner Sold In Bergen County
$10K Mega Millions Winner Sold In Bergen County A Mega Millions ticket good for $10,000 was sold in Bergen County. The ticket from the Tuesday, Nov. 8 drawing matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn. The winning numbers were 05, 13, 29, 38 and 59. The Gold Mega Ball was 23, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 04. The lucky ticket was purchased at Quick Shop, 48 Paterson St., in Hillsdale.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Bergen County Gymnast Livvy Dunne Is TikTok Millionaire Bergen County Gymnast Livvy Dunne Is TikTok Millionaire
Bergen County Gymnast Livvy Dunne Is TikTok Millionaire Hard work is paying off for Bergen County gymnast Livvy Dunne. Days after her 20th birthday, the Louisiana State University athlete was ranked the most successful female Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) moneymaker by On3 Sports, with an estimated worth of $2.3 million. Pretty flippin' cool, right?  @livvy Obsessed @lsugymtigers #foryou #gymnastics #lsu #fakebody ♬ original sound - gigi The Hillsdale native has been ramping up her social media presence ever since the NCAA lifted its NIL restrictions in 2021 — allowing college athletes to profit off of themselves. According to For…

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Convicted Stalker From Paramus Charged With Tormenting Same Teaneck Victim Again Convicted Stalker From Paramus Charged With Tormenting Same Teaneck Victim Again
Convicted Stalker From Paramus Charged With Tormenting Same Teaneck Victim Again A convicted stalker from Paramus was jailed after going after the same Teaneck victim again, authorities said. John F. Connors, 44, "placed fictitious calls to 911 on different dates," bringing police to the victim's home each time, Teaneck Deputy Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. These weren't only illegal actions on their own, the deputy chief said: They also violated not one but two permanent restraining orders against him. ****** ATTENTION: The defendant has a twin brother, U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. James P. Connors, a highly-decorated and respected military veteran and Teaneck fir…

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PURSUIT (UPDATE): Paramus Officer Injured, Two Police Cars Damaged, Newark Thieves Seized PURSUIT (UPDATE): Paramus Officer Injured, Two Police Cars Damaged, Newark Thieves Seized
Pursuit (Update): Paramus Officer Injured, Two Police Cars Damaged, Newark Thieves Seized UPDATE: An overnight stolen vehicle chase ended in a crash that sent a Paramus police officer to the hospital, three Newark thieves to jail and two department cruisers to the shop, authorities said. Police from Saddle River and Hillsdale began pursuing a stolen 2022 Mercedes GLS 450 and a tandem vehicle shortly after midnight Thursday, Oct. 13, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. All four of its occupants were wearing ski masks, the chief said. The fleeing vehicles sped south on Route 17 toward Paramus, where Ehrenberg said Officer Connor Nutland picked up the pursuit. Nutla…

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