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Prosecutor: Suspect dies during attempted car theft in Paramus

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Prosecutor: Suspect dies during attempted car theft in Paramus

OCTOBER 8, 2014, 6:37 AM    LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2014, 7:17 AM
BY STEFANIE DAZIO
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

PARAMUS — Route 4 westbound at Forest Avenue is closed as police investigate an attempted car theft that resulted in an officer firing a weapon, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said via Twitter.

One of four suspects died, he added. The other three suspects are in custody.

According to Molinelli, the driver struck a police officer while fleeing. The officer fired his gun, and the car struck a highway divider. The driver got out of the car, but later was pronounced dead at the hospital. It was not clear whether the suspect was killed by gunfire or from injuries sustained in the crash.

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Falling glass injures 3 at Bergen Town Center mall in Paramus

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Falling glass injures 3 at Bergen Town Center mall in Paramus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2014, 8:29 PM    LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2014, 8:40 PM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
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Three people were injured, including two juveniles, when glass from a balcony barrier at The Outlets at Bergen Town Center mall fell about 30 feet Saturday and shattered on the floor below, according to Paramus Police Sgt. Brian McGovern.

The incident happened at 3:20 p.m. The mall, on Route 4 east at Forest Avenue, was filled with shoppers at the time, said Boyd A. Loving, a freelance photographer who contributes to The Record.

Two boys and a 67-year-old man were injured by the falling glass, McGovern said, adding that none of the injuries appeared serious.

The juveniles were transported to Hackensack University Medical Center along with their mother and grandmother, said McGovern. The injured adult received a bandage at the mall and declined further treatment. Police did not release the names of the injured.

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Ridge­wood Country Club in Paramus next for streaking McIlroy

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Rory McIlroy hits out of the bunker on the 12th hole during the second round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at Valhalla Golf Club on Friday. 

Ridge­wood Country Club in Paramus next for streaking McIlroy

AUGUST 17, 2014, 11:38 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 2014, 11:52 PM
BY TARA SULLIVAN
RECORD COLUMNIST
THE RECORD

The scenes from the final round of golf’s final major won’t soon be forgotten. Against a perilously setting sun, some of the world’s best players ­dueled atop a rapidly changing leader board, waging a battle rife with drama and thick with tension, fueled by fantastic shots and heart-stopping mistakes.

It was a PGA Championship that brought us so much, culminating in a second straight major win for Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland.

And yet, the tournament was as remarkable for what it didn’t have as what it did.

No Tiger Woods in the final round? No problem.

Woods has not been a factor this golf season, his advancing age and balky back keeping him out of action for months and putting him on the wrong side of the cut line when he rushed into action at the PGA. The doubts grow ever stronger that Woods will conquer his stated career goal of surpassing Jack Nicklaus’ 18 major titles (Woods has 14), and the most famous player of his generation won’t even participate this week in The Barclays, the first step in the season-ending FedEx Cup.

But Rory will. The world’s No. 1 player is bringing his surging game and meteoric profile to Ridge­wood Country Club in Paramus. For a sport in need of new faces, McIlroy is making his case as the first Woods replacement in years. He won’t ever match Woods’ mass appeal and cross­over popularity, but for the golf purist and traditional fan, he’s a very welcome sight.

The way McIlroy won at Valhalla in Louisville, Ky., the way he carried his lead into Sunday morning, lost it across a middling front nine and roared back to win, was, well, Tiger-esque.

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Hit and Run Accident involving bicyclist in Paramus

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Hit and Run Accident involving bicyclist in Paramus
August 3,2014
Boyd A. Loving
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Paramus NJ, A bicyclist was struck and seriously injured by a hit & run driver at approximately 9:20 PM on Sunday, 08/03 in front of 67 Paramus Road, Paramus.  The fleeing vehicle was described as a silver pick up truck, last seen on Paramus Road south heading towards Rochelle Park.  Paramus PD, EMS, and a paramedic unit from The Valley Hospital responded to assist the victim.  One lane of Paramus Road northbound and one lane of Paramus Road southbound remain closed near the accident scene while law enforcement officers conduct an investigation.  The victim was female.  She was riding with a male partner who was uninjured.  Both cyclists appeared to have been riding what is commonly referred to as “folding” bikes.  When police first arrived at the scene the victim was totally unresponsive.  She was responsive and alert at the time she was loaded into the ambulance.  Taken to HUMC.  The male cyclist was observed loading his bike into the trunk of a police car and then being driven away from the scene.  No lights were observed on either bike.

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Bergen County Exec’s race: Paramus, Tedesco’s home base, could play strategic role in election’s outcome

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Bergen County Exec’s race: Paramus, Tedesco’s home base, could play strategic role in election’s outcome

PARAMUS – Bergen County Freeholder Jim Tedesco has reason to believe that based on his recent electoral history in his hometown of Paramus, the Democratic candidate for Bergen County Executive might have a chance of defeating Republican incumbent Kathleen Donovan in November. (Bonamo/PolitickerNJ)

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On judge’s order, Paramus board selects site for cell tower

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On judge’s order, Paramus board selects site for cell tower

JULY 7, 2014    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, JULY 7, 2014, 3:51 PM
BY KAREN KLEIMANN
MANAGING EDITOR
TOWN NEWS

After a decade of fighting the installation, the Paramus Zoning Board of Adjustment reluctantly chose a location for a cell phone tower.

A judge recently ruled against the board in a lawsuit filed by Sprint and T-Mobile after their application was denied by the zoning board.

At a June 26 meeting, the zoning board heard additional testimony from the applicant and then opened the meeting to the public on comments and questions.

All zoning board members except for Walter Vavosa voted in favor of the Church of Nazarene site.

“We have an obligation to choose a site,” Zoning Board Chairman James Huffman said. “We denied this application because we didn’t like it, but we were told by the judge that we have to choose a site.”

About a decade ago, Sprint and T-Mobile filed a joint application before the zoning board to bring a cell tower into the borough in one of two sites on East Midland Avenue, the Church of Nazarene or the Ambulance Corps building.

The applicants proposed building a monopole, a tower that had antenna branches stretching out from the pole and resembles a tree. Ultimately the board denied the application, stating among several reasons that the benefits did not outweigh the detriments to the community.

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There Goes the Neighborhood : Senator Menendez moves to Bergen County

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There Goes the Neighborhood : Senator Menendez moves to Bergen County

JULY 5, 2014, 4:29 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014, 12:13 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

Sen. Bob Menendez, long viewed as the unofficial boss of the Democratic Party in Hudson County, has moved to Bergen County. The senator has had the good fortune , of beating the odds in many tight political squeezes, BetWinner Cameroon . 

Menendez first talked publicly about his move at a political fundraiser in Edgewater on Wednesday night, where he announced not only that he will BetWinner entrar , support Democrat James Tedesco’s campaign for Bergen County executive, he’ll also be voting for Tedesco in the November election.

“Yes that is correct. He lives in Paramus now,” said Steven Sandberg, a spokesman for Menendez.

Menendez, who began his political career in Union City, had been living in North Bergen. The announcement of his move was originally reported by Politicker NJ, a website that covers state politics.

Menendez, who is divorced, is engaged to marry Alicia Mucci, a widow who lives in Paramus. Sandberg declined to say whether Menendez and Mucci have moved in together.

Several Bergen County Democrats hope the move by Menendez, New Jersey’s senior senator, may help their prospects for maintaining control of the Bergen County Board of Freeholders and winning back the office of county executive from Republican Kathleen Donovan.

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Police say popping tires may have been mistaken for gunshots, spurring panic at Garden State Plaza in Paramus

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Police say popping tires may have been mistaken for gunshots, spurring panic at Garden State Plaza in Paramus

MAY 10, 2014, 9:37 PM    LAST UPDATED: SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2014, 12:25 AM
BY CHRISTOPHER MAAG, MATTHEW MCGRATH AND ABBOTT KOLOFF
STAFF WRITERS
THE RECORD

PARAMUS — Panicked shoppers ran screaming from the Westfield Garden State Plaza on Saturday night believing they heard gunshots, which law enforcement officials later said was actually “falling metal stanchions.” The stanchions were knocked down as people ran because of a car fire in the parking lot that caused the car’s tires to pop.

“No shots” were fired, Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said in an email at 11:55 p.m.

A large police presence had remained at the mall late into the night, many of them around the main entrance to Macy’s department store, as a Bergen County SWAT team and borough police searched inside stores to make sure that there hadn’t been a shooting.

Law-enforcement officials quickly determined that they didn’t need the same kind of police presence that they called on Nov. 4 when a man fired shots inside the mall before killing himself.

“It doesn’t appear to be a shooting,” Brian Higgins, chief of the Bergen County Police Department, said late Saturday, but he quickly added that authorities are taking every precaution to make sure that is the case. Instead, he said, the sounds of tires popping from the car fire, which occurred at about the same time as people called 911 about shots being fired, is “the best anyone can assume” about the cause of the panic.

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Police release video that shows brazen $250K jewelry store heist in Paramus

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Police release video that shows brazen $250K jewelry store heist in Paramus

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2014    LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2014, 10:23 PM
BY  KAREN SUDOL
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

As dawn emerged on Valentine’s Day, three figures approached a glass storefront of The Jewelry Center in Paramus, remained for a few seconds as if scoping out the store, then walked away in different directions.

Three minutes later, the back of a Ford pickup slammed through the doors and crashed into a jewelry counter. Then, two thieves quickly entered, hooked up a cable from the truck to a nearby safe and dragged it out of the store. A stolen backhoe was then used to load the safe into a getaway vehicle, police have said.

How one of the most brazen jewelry store heists in Paramus went down — a job that netted the thieves $250,000 worth of jewelry — was captured on high-definition black-and-white footage released by Paramus police on Tuesday. The revealing 15-minute silent video is expected to assist authorities in determining how the crime happened and who may have been involved. Paramus Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said he also hopes it will generate tips from the public.

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Valley Hospital eyeing UPS Paramus site

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Valley Hospital eyeing UPS Paramus site
Monday, January 27, 2014    Last updated: Monday January 27, 2014, 7:00 PM
BY  LINDA MOSS
STAFF WRITER
The Record

The Valley Hospital is in negotiations to buy the site in Paramus that global parcel distributor UPS is vacating, several commercial real estate sources said Monday.

The Ridgewood-based hospital, which has been scouting for land in Bergen County to expand its services, is looking to purchase UPS’ data-processing and software development facility on Winters Avenue, sources said.

The parcel distribution company’s site is at 640, 650 and 670 Winters Ave., not far from Route 17. That location is near a 128,000-square-foot facility Valley Hospital already has in Paramus, the Robert and Audrey Luckow Pavilion at 1 Valley Health Plaza, behind the Fashion Center shopping mall.

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