Raging Overnight Fire Destroys River Edge Home Raging Overnight Fire Destroys River Edge Home
Raging Overnight Fire Destroys River Edge Home Sections of a River Edge home collapsed during a vicious overnight fire. A dog was killed in the blaze on Eastbrook Drive, near Forest Avenue and Route 4, at 1:40 a.m. Saturday, May 27, according to neighbors. No injuries were otherwise reported. Borough firefighters headed back to the scene when the blaze briefly rekindled around 11:30 a.m. It apparently began in the attached garage and quickly spread to some vehicles and through one end of the two-story, 3,500-square-foot wood-frame house. Some water issues initially were reported. A preliminary cause wasn't given. The overnight f…
Horrific Route 4 Crash: Victim Freed, Hospitalized After Tesla Rear-Ends Dump Truck (PHOTOS) Horrific Route 4 Crash: Victim Freed, Hospitalized After Tesla Rear-Ends Dump Truck (PHOTOS)
Horrific Route 4 Crash: Victim Freed, Hospitalized After Tesla Rear-Ends Dump Truck (Photos) A horrific early rush-hour crash on Route 4 in Teaneck on Thursday sent a motorist to the hospital, authorities confirmed. A Tesla sedan rear-ended a dump truck on the westbound highway at Decatur Avenue shortly after 5:30 a.m. May 18, Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said. Teaneck firefighters extricated the victim, who was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center by the Teaneck Volunteer Ambulance Corps with a hand injury -- and received a careless driving summons from the sheriff's officers. A Tesla rear-ended a dump truck on Route 4 West at Decatur Avenue at 5:30 a.m. Thu…
ROUTE 4 FATAL: Driver Killed In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Crash ROUTE 4 FATAL: Driver Killed In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Crash
Route 4 Fatal: Driver Killed In Paramus Tractor-Trailer Crash UPDATE: A 33-year-old Paterson driver whose sports car rear-ended a tractor-trailer overnight on Route 4 died a short time later, authorities confirmed. Authorities were temporarily withholding his identity, but multiple sources identified the driver as Jeffery Robinson, the son of a retired Paterson police detective. The driver was headed west on Route 4 in Paramus when his Toyota Supra slammed into the rear of the rig near the Houlihan's restaurant around 3 a.m. Saturday, April 15, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Officers who responded found him wedged under the dashboard and unres…
Upscale Steakhouse Replacing Shuttered Route 4 River Palm Terrace Upscale Steakhouse Replacing Shuttered Route 4 River Palm Terrace
Upscale Steakhouse Replacing Shuttered Route 4 River Palm Terrace The owners of a Bergen County steakhouse will be taking over the space long occupied by the River Palm Terrace, which quietly closed its doors after several years on Route 4. RP Prime, located in Mahwah, will be opening its second location at the shuttered Fair Lawn River Palm Terrace, at 41-11 Route 4 in May, the owners announced on social media. View this post on Instagram A post shared by RP Prime (@rpprime_steakhouse) View this post on Instagram A post shared by RP Prime (@rpprime_steakhous…
Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police
Fleeing Domestic Violence Suspect Seized In Paramus Parking Lot, Sought Suicide-By-Cop: Police UPDATE: A knife-wielding Ridgewood man who'd just fled a domestic violence assault was bent on suicide-by-cop when officers seized him during a tense Easter Sunday night standoff in a Paramus parking lot, authorities said. Keith Hanlon, 41, had been arrested on a domestic violence charge this past Christmas and was almost immediately released by a judge in Hackensack under New Jersey's bail reform law, records show. Hanlon again assaulted a woman, choking her, at a garden apartment complex on Oak Street in Ridgewood around 8 p.m. Easter Sunday, authorities said. He then apparently stabbed…
Prosecutor IDs Paterson Pair Busted Following Young Mom's Fentanyl Death At Hackensack Mall Prosecutor IDs Paterson Pair Busted Following Young Mom's Fentanyl Death At Hackensack Mall
Prosecutor IDs Paterson Pair Busted Following Young Mom's Fentanyl Death At Hackensack Mall UPDATE: Authorities vowed to find whoever sold the fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed one of five women who overdosed on it at the Shops At Riverside mall in Hackensack. They believe they have. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced on Friday, March 24, that two arrests were made in an ongoing investigation into what killed 29-year-old Michelle Edoo of Bergenfield, a nursing student and single mom who worked with three of the other victims at the Cheesecake Factory in the mall off westbound Route 4. Paterson residents Garfield Jones, a 48-year-old Jamaican national who works as a…
Arrests Made In Fentanyl-Related Death Of Mom At Hackensack Mall, Co-Workers Rally For Daughter Arrests Made In Fentanyl-Related Death Of Mom At Hackensack Mall, Co-Workers Rally For Daughter
Arrests Made In Fentanyl-Related Death Of Mom At Hackensack Mall, Co-Workers Rally For Daughter UPDATE: Authorities vowed to find whoever sold the fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed one of five women who overdosed on it at the Shops At Riverside mall in Hackensack.  They believe they have. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced on Friday, March 24, that two arrests were made in an ongoing investigation into what killed 29-year-old Michelle Edoo of Bergenfield, a nursing student and single mom who worked with three of the other victims at the Cheesecake Factory in the mall off westbound Route 4. Paterson residents Garfield Jones, a 48-year-old Jamaican national who works…
UPDATE: Four Women Hospitalized, One Serious, From Fentanyl ODs At Riverside Square Mall UPDATE: Four Women Hospitalized, One Serious, From Fentanyl ODs At Riverside Square Mall
Update: Four Women Hospitalized, One Serious, From Fentanyl ODs At Riverside Square Mall UPDATE: Four women who work at The Shops at Riverside in Hackensack were hospitalized -- one of them in serious condition -- after an apparent group drug overdose in a lower parking garage early Wednesday evening. Fentanyl was to blame, city officials said.  Responders administered Narcan to five women in all -- ages 29 to 41 -- and conducted CPR on the most seriously injured victim, who'd apparently staggered toward the middle of the lot before collapsing. She remained unresponsive despite efforts to revive her -- first by passersby who include a nurse practitioner, then by police an…
One-Man Crime Wave: Arrest Made In Armed Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies In Four Bergen Towns One-Man Crime Wave: Arrest Made In Armed Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies In Four Bergen Towns
One-Man Crime Wave: Arrest Made In Armed Gas Station, 7-Eleven Robberies In Four Bergen Towns Authorities charged an Essex County man with robbing three gas stations and two convenience stores in Bergen County at gunpoint – four of them in one night. Thomas Johnson, 30, of East Orange brandished a handgun while holding up two gas stations in Mahwah, another in Paramus and a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn of several thousand dollars in less than half an hour late last month, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Johnson did it again three nights later, robbing a 7-Eleven in Elmwood Park of $650 as two employees locked themselves in the bathroom and called police, the prosecutor said. T…
Five Out-Of-Towners Seized After Paramus Stolen Car Pursuit Ends In Englewood Crash Five Out-Of-Towners Seized After Paramus Stolen Car Pursuit Ends In Englewood Crash
Five Out-Of-Towners Seized After Paramus Stolen Car Pursuit Ends In Englewood Crash An Essex County quintet was arrested by Paramus police following the pursuit of a stolen Dodge Challenger that crashed in Englewood. Officer Slavko Bajovic spotted the stolen muscle car on southbound Route 17 after hearing an alert that it was involved in an attempted vehicle theft in Ridgewood shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said. Bajovic tried to stop the Challenger after a computer check showed that it had been reported stolen out of Old Bridge, the chief said. The driver refused to stop, however, and continued down Route 17 onto eastbound …
UPDATE: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes UPDATE: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes
Update: Gunman Robs Gas Stations, 7-Eleven In Paramus, Fair Lawn, Mahwah In Under 30 Minutes UPDATE: Law enforcement agencies in two states were sharing information in the search for a masked gunman who robbed two gas stations in Mahwah, another in Paramus and a 7-Eleven in Fair Lawn of several thousand dollars in less than a half hour. The spree ended with back-to-back holdups of two gas stations on northbound Route 17 in Mahwah barely a couple of minutes from the Rockland County border. The robber entered the Valero station near Route 202 at 11:05 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, Mahwah Police Chief Stephen Jaffe said. He “brandished a handgun at the staff at the register and demanded mone…
SUV, Sedan Collide On Route 4 SUV, Sedan Collide On Route 4
SUV, Sedan Collide On Route 4 Both vehicles ended up facing the wrong way after a horrific late-night collision Wednesday on Route 4. Firefighters extricated one of the victims after the BMW SUV and Corolla sedan crashed on the westbound highway at the Tuxedo Square exit shortly before 11 p.m. The occupants' conditions couldn't immediately be determined. This BMW SUV collided with a Toyota sedan on westbound Route 4 near Tuxedo Square in Teaneck on Wednesday, Jan. 18.Daniel Rosario for DAILY VOICE Multiple ambulances responded along with local police and firefighters, Bergen County sheriff's officers and the sherif…