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Social Studies Teacher Sues Local Bergen County District Over Suspension For Hitler Assignments Social Studies Teacher Sues Local Bergen County District Over Suspension For Hitler Assignments
Social Studies Teacher Sues Local Bergen County District Over Suspension For Hitler Assignments A Bergen County grade-school social studies teacher who was indefinitely suspended over assignments about Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany claims the district superintendent told him that he’d upset “Jewish people” in town and then ordered him to “fix” it. In a lawsuit filed against the Woodcliff Lake School District, Robert Welsh of Park Ridge says he was made a “scapegoat” amid complaints from parents because he’s a “socially conservative Christian in a community with a large Jewish population.” Welsh, 53, wrote a letter to the parents explaining why he considered the lesson necessary and ap…

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West Milford Man Nabbed In Rockland With Loaded Gun, Meth, Sheriff Says West Milford Man Nabbed In Rockland With Loaded Gun, Meth, Sheriff Says
West Milford Man Nabbed In Rockland With Loaded Gun, Meth, Sheriff Says A Passaic County driver was carrying a loaded gun and more than two ounces of crystal meth when a sheriff’s officer stopped him in Rockland, authorities said. Ethan A. Iglesias, 22, of Stowaway Road was arrested following a traffic stop on Route 202 in the town of Haverstraw at 3:45 a.m. Thursday, March 31, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said. A local judge ordered that Iglesias remain held in the Rockland County Correctional Facility in New City pending a detention hearing on Monday, April 4, the sheriff said. He's charged with drug and weapons offenses.

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Three Extricated From Minivan, Nine Injured In Palisades Interstate Parkway Pileup Three Extricated From Minivan, Nine Injured In Palisades Interstate Parkway Pileup
Three Extricated From Minivan, Nine Injured In Palisades Interstate Parkway Pileup UPDATE: Five minivan occupants had to be hospitalized -- three of whom were extricated by police -- following a multi-vehicle crash that closed the northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway on Saturday for nearly an hour and a half, authorities said. The 2008 Chrysler minivan, a 2013 BMW X5 SUV and a 2013 Toyota coupe were involved in the 12:30 p.m. crash at Exit 4 on the parkway's northbound side in Alpine, PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. Nine occupants in all required attention after Parkway police extricated three trapped victims from the minivan, Walter said. The five…

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Dominican National Who Brought 2 Pounds Of Heroin To NJ From NY Gets 34 Months In Fed Pen Dominican National Who Brought 2 Pounds Of Heroin To NJ From NY Gets 34 Months In Fed Pen
Dominican National Who Brought 2 Pounds Of Heroin To NJ From NY Gets 34 Months In Fed Pen A Dominican national who smuggled more than two pounds of heroin from Rockland County into New Jersey was sentenced Thursday in Newark to a plea-bargained 34 months in federal prison. Bienvenido Perez Lazala, 31, who previously admitted his role in moving the drug, must serve the entire sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Federal agents were listening as plans were made for Lazala to collect the heroin in Haverstraw and bring it to New Jersey, where he sold it to a buyer who turned out to be a law enforcement officer, U.S. Craig Carpenito said. In addition to t…

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