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Police & Fire
Cops ID NJ Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash
Authorities have released the identities of both the pilot who survived and the passenger who died in a small plane crash that shut down Interstate 684 at the border of Fairfield, CT and Westchester, CT counties for hours. Kalmen Goldberger, 26, of Linden, NJ, had reported engine trouble before the single-engine Tecnam P-2008 went down in the center median of I-684 near Exit 2 in Harrison Thursday, Dec. 12 around 7:15 p.m., officials said. Goldberger survived, however, his passenger, Jacob Yankele Friedman, 32, of the Rockland County hamlet of Monsey, was pronounced dead at the sc…
News
CNN News Anchor From NJ Announces Husband's Death In Heartbreaking Post
Alisyn Camerota, A CNN anchor from Fairfield County, CT and with New Jersey roots is mourning the loss of her husband, she announced in a heartbreaking post on social media. Camerota, who was born in Shrewsbury, NJ said on Friday, Sept. 20 on Instagram that her husband, Tim Lewis, died on July 27, 2024 — two years after being diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Lewis' obituary on the Harding Funeral Home website says that he and Camerota live in Westport, CT. "I cannot imagine any human being soldiering through a devastating diagnosis with more humor, humility and bravery than Tim," …
Lifestyle
Jenn Tran's Final Four: Meet Bergen County 'Bachelorette' Suitors Headed To Hometowns
Jenn Tran has her final four. The Bergen County native and frontrunner of this season's hit ABC show "The Bachelorette" sent three suitors home on Monday, Aug. 12's episode. Disney/John Fleenor Tran, 26, — who now lives in Miami and is studying to become a physician assistant — will soon meet the families of the remaining four contestants. They are: Devin Strader: A 28-year-old business owner from Houston, TX. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jeremy Simon (@j____way) Jeremy Simon: A 29-year-old real estate investor from New …
Police & Fire
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CASE? Luxury SUV Stolen 7 Years Ago In CT Recovered By Saddle River PD
The owner of a luxury SUV that was stolen from a train station in Fairfield County, CT in 2016 likely thought he'd never see it again. Fate intervened, however -- or, rather, the Saddle River Police Department. Officers Greg Bulick and Det. Michael Cooper stopped the 2015 Land Rover on northbound Route 17 for having tinted windows, among other violations, Police Chief Jason Cosgriff said. They quickly noticed some inconsistencies, he said. The vehicle had a temporary Georgia license plate for a 2019 Range Rover, for one thing, the chief said Wednesday, Aug. 30. The VIN numbers didn't m…
Police & Fire
Trio Of Kiddie Car Thieves, One 13, Captured By Paramus PD, Suspected In CT Thefts
A 13-year-old boy was among a trio of underage car thieves captured by Paramus police overnight at the Mercedes Benz dealership on Route 17. Authorities believe the young teens are part of a crew responsible for similar incidents in Fairfield County, CT, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Officer Nick Perna spotted a black BMW 530 with one occupant in the parking lot of a medical building next door to the dealership late last week, Guidetti said. A quick computer check showed the license plate had been reported stolen out of New York City and the BMW was swiped in Bridgeport, CT, t…
News
Daily Voice Goes Hollywood: Award-Winning Movie 'Tar' Features DV As Trusted News Source
Producers of the 2022 movie "Tar" clearly agree that Daily Voice is the best-trusted source for news in the region. Watch the award-winning film and you'll know why. About an hour and 30 minutes into the movie, the main character, Lydia Tar (played by actress Cate Blanchett) visits one of Daily Voice's 47 separate websites in New York, covering the Northern Westchester County village of Mount Kisco, looking for information on a student she's accused of abusing. It appears the film used the Daily Voice template to draft the news report that informed Tar of her victim's sudden and unexpected…
News
Driver Sought Following Consecutive Hit-Run Crashes On GWB And In Fort Lee
Authorities were searching for a hit-and-run driver who they said fled consecutive crashes on the George Washington Bridge and in Fort Lee. A 40-year-old motorist from East Stroudsburg, PA told police she was headed north on Lemoine Avenue near Bridge Plaza North when a speeding vehicle struck her Honda Pilot while trying to pass her around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 18. The driver of the white 2007 Mini Cooper apparently was fleeing another crash moments earlier on the GWB, responders said. The car was last seen heading north toward Englewood Cliffs, they noted. A witness got the license p…
News
Bully Throwing Fireball Leaves CT Boy Severely Burned, Family Says
A 6-year-old Fairfield County boy was left severely burned after another child lit a gasoline-doused ball on fire and threw it at hime, his family says. Dominick Krankall was burned around 4 p.m., Sunday, April 24 in Bridgeport, according to a GoFundMe page. Bridgeport police responded to Louisiana Avenue on a report of a child burned, said Scott Appleby, director of emergency management for Bridgeport. Dominick KrankallKayla Deegan/GoFundMe The police department, who said a group of four unsupervised youths were lighting things on fire with gasoline, declined to confirm the boy was bu…
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Gun Manufacturer Remington Settles With Sandy Hook Families For $73M
Families of five children and four adults killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting reached a historic $73 million settlement with gun manufacturer Remington, officials announced. Attorneys for the families who filed the suit against the now-bankrupt Remington and its four insurers, announced on Tuesday, Feb. 15 that they had reached the settlement, representing the first time a gun manufacturer has been held liable for a mass shooting in the US. As part of the settlement, lawyers for the families said that Remington agreed to release thousands of pages of internal company do…
Business
Teen TikToker Is Outearning Top CEOs By Millions
A teen social media star from Connecticut is outearning some of the most successful CEOs in the US by millions of dollars, according to new reports by Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. With 133 million TikToker followers, 17-year-old Fairfield County resident Charli D'Amelio, of Norwalk, who started posting to TikTok in 2019 -- has the video-sharing app's largest following, Forbes says. Last year, she brought in $17.5 million. The median pay for chief executives of S&P 500 companies in 2020 was $13.4 million, the WSJ reports. Darren Woods was the highest-earning CEO of 2020, brin…
News
Teen Hockey Player Killed During Game Mourned On & Off The Ice
The death of a young athlete who died during a collision between two hockey players on the ice during a game earlier this week is being mourned in areas near and far from both inside and outside the hockey community. Fairfield County, CT resident Teddy Balkind was 16 years old and a 10th-grader at the St. Luke’s School in New Canaan. The incident that led to his death happened around 5 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 6, during a junior varsity game at the Brunswick Upper School in Greenwich. Balkind fell to the ice, and another player who was near him was unable to stop, and the two collided, said G…
News
Ex-BF Sentenced For Kidnapping Of NY Woman Found Dead In Suitcase
The ex-boyfriend of a 24-year-old Westchester, NY woman whose body was found dead in a suitcase in Connecticut has been sentenced to decades behind bars for his role in her 2019 kidnapping. Javier Enrique Da Silva Rojas, age 25, of Queens, pleaded guilty in White Plains federal court to kidnapping Valerie Reyes in New Rochelle and illegally transporting her to Fairfield County, where her body was found in a suitcase a week later in Greenwich. US Attorney Audrey Strauss announced that Rojas has been sentenced to 360 months in prison following his guilty plea in February last year. He was als…
News
Feds Arrest Warren County Oath Keeper Seen With Trump Ally Roger Stone Before Capitol Riots
A tattoo artist from Warren County with ties to the Oath Keepers militia group has been arrested. Roberto Minuta, 36, of Hackettstown, was seen with former President Donald Trump’s longtime advisor Roger Stone before the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol. Minuta, who reportedly served as Stone's bodyguard, was wearing a baseball hat and military-style vest with the Oath Keeper logo prior to the violent insurrection on Jan. 6, prosecutors said. After his greeting with Stone, Minuta can be seen among the crowd that approached the Capitol and interacting with Capitol Police officers while wear…
Schools
Educator's Company Relieves Pressures Of Pandemic Learning For Kids Across America
One student is learning computer coding, another is taking Yoga. One is studying Spanish and another is mastering how to read a clock. From learning the ABCs to studying for the LSAT, all are doing so online with tutors stationed around the world through Virtuo Tutors. The company was launched last year by Lauren Rosenblum, a learning specialist at a New York City private school, who saw a need for improvement in the education sector at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I love working with kids, especially through one-on-one intervention, which allows you to get to know them, be their…
Police & Fire
Busted
! CT Man Facing 125 Burglary Charges Across NJ, NY Found With 9 Handguns, Crossbow
A 30-year-old Connecticut man arrested in connection with a string of burglaries across New Jersey and New York was found with nine handguns, a crossbow and a slew of other weapons and contraband following a multi-jurisdictional investigation, authorities said. Patrick Ryan of Fairfield, CT was arrested Sunday morning and charged with a total of 74 counts of burglary to a motor vehicle and dozens of other offenses, Hardyston police said in release from the Sussex County Detective’s Association. A search of Ryan’s house and car turned up nine handguns, a crossbow and a shotgun, as well as nu…
Real Estate
Covid-
19: New Data Reveals Number Who Have Moved Out Of NYC During Pandemic, Where They've Gone
There are now numbers behind the mass exodus of New York City residents to the suburbs and beyond amid the COVID-19 pandemic. From March 1 through Oct. 31 this year, a total of 295,103 NYC residents have made change-of-address requests. That's according to data The New York Post obtained from the US Postal Service. Most went to Long Island -- a total of more than 40,000 (21,362 to Suffolk County, with 6,500 of that number in six zip codes on the East End, and 18,731 to Nassau County), followed by Westchester County (15,850) and 9,356 to Hudson County, New Jersey (which includes J…
Real Estate
Covid-
19 Changing North Jersey's Real Estate Landscape, Realtors Swamped
With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak ongoing, many wealthy New Yorkers are leaving the city to head toward the suburbs. Buyers and renters in search of a "new normal" have been leaving New York City en masse and flooding the suburbs, where there is more space and less dense crowds. Others are riding out the outbreak at their second homes in the surrounding suburbs. The outbreak has kept New Milford realtor Jason Levine busy. "People want space to move around outdoors," said Levine, who owns TeamLevine ONE94 Real Estate Group with his wife, Katherine. "I would say about half the…
News
Daily Voice Comes To Warren, Hunterdon Counties
Greetings, Warren and Hunterdon counties! Daily Voice, the largest news provider in Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess and Orange counties in New York, Fairfield County in Connecticut and Bergen, Passaic, Morris, Essex, Union, Hudson, Sussex and Union counties in New Jersey, has launched a brand-new site: Daily Voice Warren Hunterdon Daily Voice reports on community news in a new way. Our mission is to let neighbors know what’s going on in town – as quickly, accurately and enjoyably as possible. We’re here to help build the communities we serve, not snipe at them or…
Business
Daily Voice Comes To Hudson, Essex, Union Counties
Greetings, New Jersey! Daily Voice has launched three brand new sites in Hudson, Essex and Union counties. Last February, we rolled out a Morris County site, in addition to the Bergen and Passaic sites that opened in August 2015. Daily Voice covers community news in a new way. Our mission is to let neighbors know what’s going on in town – as quickly, accurately and enjoyably as possible. We’re here to help build the communities we serve, not snipe at them or knock them down. Daily Voice wants to hear your opinions, not impress you with ours. We also cover news in Westchester, …
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