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Teaneck HS Student Stabbed, Slashed, Assailant In Clown Mask Seized (
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): Police
UPDATE: A 14-year-old boy was stabbed and slashed by a fellow Teaneck High School student in a Halloween clown mask, authorities confirmed. The 16-year-old assailant was still carrying the bloody knife when two Bogota police officers nabbed him following the apparently random Halloween night attack on Cedar Lane shortly before 9 p.m., Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. The victim was stabbed in the buttocks and also suffered a deep cut on his face in the attack on Garrison Avenue, around the corner from the Seasons Express kosher grocery on Cedar Lane, the chief said early Wednesday,…
Police & Fire
Teaneck HS Student Stabbed, Slashed, Assailant In Clown Mask Seized (
Update
): Police
UPDATE: A 14-year-old boy was stabbed and slashed by a fellow Teaneck High School student in a Halloween clown mask, authorities confirmed. The 16-year-old assailant was still carrying the bloody knife when two Bogota police officers nabbed him following the apparently random Halloween night attack on Cedar Lane shortly before 9 p.m., Teaneck Police Chief Andrew McGurr said. The victim was stabbed in the buttocks and also suffered a deep cut on his face in the attack on Garrison Avenue, around the corner from the Seasons Express kosher grocery on Cedar Lane, the chief said early Wednesday,…
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Teaneck District Pays $50,000 To Settle Special Ed Teacher's Sexual Harassment Suit
The Teaneck school district confidentially paid $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a former special education teacher who said she was fired after refusing the then-principal’s sexual advances, records show. Whittier Elementary School Principal Pedro H. Valdes III – now the principal of Teaneck High School -- engaged in “overly flirtatious” behavior that was “disturbing and intimidating at best," Grace Kenny charged in a sexual discrimination lawsuit. Rather than go to trial, district officials settled the case and agreed, along with Kenny, to keep the terms of the deal confidential. Set…
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Motorcyclist Killed In Route 4 Crash With Deer
A motorcyclist from River Vale was killed when he struck a deer on Route 4 in Teaneck before dawn Monday. Albert Spechar, 58, was ejected and landed in the middle of the roadway of the eastbound highway after hitting a four-point buck shortly after 5:30 a.m., responders said. Spechar was later pronounced dead at the scene just past the Margaret Street overpass near Teaneck High School, they said. The motorcycle landed on its side near a bus shelter further on up the road. The eastbound highway remained closed through the morning rush, with backups through Paramus, as the Bergen County Pr…
Police & Fire
Authorities: Infamous ‘James Bond Gang’ Of Burglars Is Back In NJ
They’re the criminal version of such musical oldies acts as the Temptations and Quiet Riot. The infamous James Bond Gang of burglars is back in several New Jersey counties, authorities say – only without their original members. It was in the mid-1990s that David Kirkland hooked up with Teaneck High School buddy Terence Lawton, who owned a detailing shop in Englewood where he created a car that gave the founding burglary crew its nickname. Pricey homes in Paramus, Englewood Cliffs and elsewhere yielded the gang an average of $30,000 in cash and valuables during what investigators said were …
Obituaries
Community Mourns Beloved Teaneck Food Pantry Founder Killed By Coronavirus
As coronavirus-related deaths and cases continued to mount, one of the communities hit hardest reeled at the news that COVID-19 had claimed one of its most beloved humanitarians. Janice Preschel, who directed the Helping Hands Food Pantry in Teaneck, died Monday. She was 60. Family members early Tuesday asked that people "take social distancing seriously" and honor her memory. Preschel, a past president of the Teaneck Rotary, “was one of the kindest and most giving individuals I have ever met,” Deputy Mayor Elie Katz said. The 1977 Teaneck High School graduate co-founded the pantry with …
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