Glen Rock NJ, Glen Rock PD, FD, and EMS personnel rushed to aid the driver of a silver colored Nissan Rogue after it crashed into a large tree in front of 44 Radburn Road, Glen Rock on Friday morning, 05/19. The vehicle flipped after hitting the tree, causing damage that pinned the driver inside. The victim was freed by Glen Rock FD members and then transported by a Glen Rock EMS ambulance to The Valley Hospital. Injuries to the victim appeared to have been non life threatening. A paramedic team from The Valley Hospital was also at the scene. A flatbed tow truck removed the wrecked Nissan. Glen Rock PD is investigating the accident’s cause.
A Tribeca event planner, her pilot boyfriend and her two young sons disappeared in a plane in the Bermuda Triangle, and authorities said Tuesday they found a “debris field” near where the aircraft was last heard from.
The group had just spent Mother’s Day in Puerto Rico and was flying to Florida when the small twin-engine plane disappeared at about 2:10 p.m. Monday, according to officials.
On board were 40-year-old Skylight CEO Jennifer Blumin, her 4- and 3-year-old sons and her boyfriend, Nathan Ulrich, 52, of Lee, NH, authorities and family members said.
Ulrich, an Ivy-League-educated former Coast Guard auxiliarist, is the ex-husband of actress Rae Dawn Chong.
By Paul Milo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Paul Milo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
A Learjet took off from Philadelphia and crashed on approach at Teterboro
The Learjet 35A, a twin-engine jet often used for business or personal travel, was built in 1981. It was coming in for a landing when it crashed in an industrial area of Carlstadt around 3:30 p.m. Both occupants of the plane were killed and the crash caused a fire with dark billowing smoke that could be seen for miles. Buildings in the area and parked cars caught fire but were quickly extinguished by local fire departments.
Michael Sol Warren | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
By Michael Sol Warren | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 14, 2017 at 9:32 AM, updated May 14, 2017 at 9:33 AM
Who says there aren’t plenty of fish in the sea?
In a boon for New Jersey fishers, the state Division of Fish and Wildlife, part of the Department of Environmental Protection, announced last week that because of high productivity at the Pequest Trout Hatchery, extra trout will be added to each load of fish in state-stocked waters for the rest of the spring stocking season.
According to an email from DEP spokesman Bob Considine, approximately 4,000 additional trout were included in this week’s stocking. A similar amount is expected to be added to trout loads for the final two weeks of the spring stocking season. Considine added that every water stocked by DFW will receive some of the surplus trout.
By Brent Johnson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 14, 2017 at 10:00 AM, updated May 14, 2017 at 2:10 PM
TRENTON — A state lawmaker on Monday is scheduled to unveil legislation that would legalize, regulate, and tax recreational marijuana in New Jersey.
State Sen. Nicholas Scutari (D-Union) will formally announce the Democratic-sponsored measure at a noon news conference at the Statehouse in Trenton.
Medical marijuana is already legal in the state. But if this bill becomes law, New Jersey would become the ninth state to legalize pot — joining Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia.
“The national trend is toward legalization,” Scutari told NJ Advance Media on Friday. “It’s absolutely necessary to save our neighborhoods from drug dealers. And we can use the tax revenue. And people are smoking it anyway.
American retail culture may well have reached a tipping point.
Major department stores are floundering about like fish in a rapidly draining pond after reporting dreadful earnings last week.
The time-honored multigenerational giants like Macy’s, Sears and JCPenney are all looking at a dramatically different future.
Macy’s stock collapsed 17 percent after Thursday’s first-quarter report. And high-end retail behemoths like Nordstrom are getting clobbered, too. Shares of that politically petulant retailer fell 11 percent Thursday on news of its first-quarter results.
Better take a good look, because this may be last call for the mall.
Most police officers in New Jersey are earning six-figure salaries before overtime and benefits.
A New Jersey 101.5 analysis of municipal police salaries found the median police salary last year was about $105,000 — an increase of 4 percent since 2012. For comparison, the median household income in the state is $72,000.
But the highest-paid cops are not always the ones patrolling dangerous city streets.
The police departments with the most generous payrolls are often in towns that go decades without experiencing a homicide. According to use-of-force reports that departments file with their county prosecutor, cops in these highly paid towns often retire without ever having to fire their weapon in the line of duty.
State Sen. Nick Scutari (D-Union) will be unveiling long-awaited legislation to regulate and tax marijuana in New Jersey on Monday, he announced today.
The proposal has no chance while Gov. Chris Christie remains in office. But with the Republican’s term ending in January, and all the major Democratic candidatesfor governor this year in favor of legalization, Scutari’s plan is likely to serve as an important blueprint for the next administration if a Democrat wins office. The leading Republican candidates — Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli and Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno — have said they favor decriminalizing but not fully legalizing the drug.
Only in New Jersey. You would think listing the 10 Commandments for the rules of the road here in the Garden State would be enough, right? Yeah, not so much.
There’s so much craziness on NJ’s roads that we came up with a second list of 10 Commandments for all the people who wrote in and commented on Facebook, Twitter or on our website with some fantastic suggestions. From the left lane laggers to the drivers who think their turn signals were optional equipment on their car, we have heard your cries for sanity on the roads and we are posting them for all to read and (hopefully) adhere to.
USA TODAY NETWORKJames M. O’Neill, The (Bergen County, N.J.) Record
WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Despite the large, heavy-duty waterproof boots he wore, Scott Sherwood stepped with a dancer’s delicacy through a mucky meadow, trying to avoid crushing the tiny yellow wildflowers blooming all around him.
After all, this flower grows only in this one location in New Jersey — and no place else on Earth.
Fair Lawn NJ, If you’re going to have a fender bender, there’s no more of a convenient place to have it than in front of an auto body shop. That’s exactly what happened on Wednesday afternoon, 05/10, when two (2) vehicles collided in front of Tri Boro Auto Body, 5-35 Saddle River Road, Fair Lawn. Neither vehicle was extensively damaged, but one (1) driver experienced a serious medical condition that required him being transported to The Valley Hospital by ambulance. A paramedic team was dispatched to the incident, but released from the scene shortly after their arrival. Fair Lawn PD responded to aid the victim and to investigate the crash.
By Allison Pries | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 10, 2017 at 4:57 PM, updated May 10, 2017 at 5:00 PM
The township is taking the Ramapough Mountain Indians to court in its latest effort to remove structures that were erected last year in a flood plain and conservation zone.
Camping tents, teepees, pop-up tents, a canvas cabin and a wood structure with a roof, floor and cabinets were set up at 95 Halifax Road near the banks of the Ramapo River in November, and are being occupied on a permanent basis, according to a civil court filing this week in Bergen County Superior Court.
“We filed this action for zoning violations on this property as we would for any other resident violating our zoning laws,” Mayor Bill Laforet said. “We’re treating them exactly the same.”
The property, which is owned by the Ramapoughs, is at the base of a neighborhood known as the Polo Club, an enclave of million-dollar homes off Route 202. The parcel last sold in 1995 for $1, according to property records.
By Larry Higgs | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on May 10, 2017 at 9:39 AM, updated May 10, 2017 at 11:37 AM
New Jersey may not make an October deadline to have state driver’s licenses conform to stricter security requirements to meet the federal Real ID act.
The state may need a “short extension” past October to meet the standards, said Ray Martinez, Motor Vehicle Commission chief administrator.
“We are very confident it will be done by the end of the year, but it may not be in October,” Martinez said at an assembly budget committee hearing on Monday. “Real ID compliance is top priority.”
New Jersey is one of 12 states that have an extension until October. A first extension was granted in January 2016 by the federal Department of Homeland Security.
Not meeting the Real ID requirements would mean New Jersey driver’s licenses and non-license ID cards issued by the MVC would not be accepted at airports for identification. Currently, licenses and other ID issued in four states are not accepted for identification by federal agencies because they don’t meet Real ID standards.
Glen Rock NJ, Glen Rock PD responded to a multi vehicle collision at the intersection of Isabella Place and Lincoln Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, 05/09, the impact of which sent an SUV careening off of the roadway. No injuries were reported in the incident. Two (2) vehicles were removed from the scene by separate flatbed tow trucks. No word from police on the scene as to whether any crash related summonses were issued. Traffic on Lincoln Avenue was minimally affected as wreckage was cleared from the intersection.
Allendale NJ, The White House announced Tuesday afternoon that FBI Director James Comey was fired. Comey the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) , and served from 2013 until his dismissal by President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017.
Comey tenure had come under pressure by both Clinton supporters ,claiming his actions cost her the election and Trump supporters finding the continued “Russian Collusion” investigation given the confirmation that “there was no evidence of Russian Collusion with the Trump Administration” was purely politically motivated . In recent testimony Comey seemed a bit out of his depth and over his head .
“Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement. “President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.”
According to Wikipedia James Comey was Born in Yonkers, New York, but Comey grew up in Allendale, New Jersey, the son of Joan and J. Brien Comey. His father worked in corporate real estate and his mother was a computer consultant and homemaker. Comey is of Irish heritage. He attended Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale. Comey graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1982, majoring in chemistry and religion. His senior thesis analyzed the liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and the conservative televangelist Jerry Falwell, emphasizing their common belief in public action. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985.
