Cory Booker, Frank Pallone and Rush Holt were all in attendance for a special convention of the Democratic Committee of Bergen County Wednesday evening at the Hackensack High School. The Bergen Democrats offically gave the Newark Mayor the county line in the up coming primary election.

A 40-year-old Palisades Park man who last fall participated in the town’s National Night Out against crime held a secret crime of his own, prosecutors said today He’d been sleeping with a New Milford girl beginning when she was 14. The three-year relationship was discovered by a staffer at New Milford High School, who called [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A Washington Township man was arrested by Bergen County Prosecutor’s detectives on charges of bilking a grocery store investor of $100,000 that he used for himself. Dennis McDine was released on a summonses charging him with theft and ordered to appear in Central Municipal Court in Hackensack this Friday. Bergen [...]

EXCLUSIVE The last purported leader of what was once the infamous James Bond Gang of burglars agreed to spend four years in prison without parole today in exchange for admitting  his role in the theft of a safe from a Connecticut home that police found them trying to crack open in an Englewood garage. Today’s [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A 63-year-old man struck by an SUV on Route 4 east in Paramus as he apparently tried to cross the highway last night was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center just before 930. No charges have been filed against the driver, but the investigation was continuing, Paramus Police Chief [...]

Scott Garrett (R-NJ) along with the rest of New Jersey’s congressional delegation is set to vote today on a bill that would outlaw abortion after 20 weeks. The bill H.R. 1797, co-sponsored by Garrett and titled The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would amend the federal criminal code to prohibit any person from performing or attempting to perform an abortion if the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 20 weeks or greater.

Scott Garrett (R-NJ) along with the rest of New Jersey’s congressional delegation is set to vote today on a bill that would outlaw abortion after 20 weeks. The bill H.R. 1797, co-sponsored by Garrett and titled The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act would amend the federal criminal code to prohibit any person from performing or attempting to perform an abortion if the probable post-fertilization age of the unborn child is 20 weeks or greater.

The state commissioner of education has dismissed a former school board member's complaint over the reappointment of three school administrators last year. Board member Clarissa Gilliam Gardner alleged that the Hackensack Board of Education violated school law when it used a procedural move known as the Doctrine of Necessity to reappoint the trio.

EXCLUSIVE A former Ramsey police officer cleared of more serious charges in a child sex trial earlier this year asked a judge today for a new trial on his conviction of a lesser count. Jeffrey Kimmel was to have been sentenced this past Friday. But Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Roma temporarily postponed the sentencing [...]

NJ Transit on Monday announced the expansion of its ""MyBus Now"" information service to customers using local or intra-state bus routes throughout the state.

CLIFFVIEW PILOT EXCLUSIVE An ex-con was sentenced to 9½ years in state prison yesterday for stealing a CD case from a car parked in the lot at the Bergen County Courthouse in Hackensack. Calvin Glover, 57, of Paterson had been on probation all of four days when he began checking for unlocked car doors in [...]

On Saturday, June 15th at 11am Bergen County will host another public auction that will include vans, pickup trucks, sports utility vehicles, sedans and much more. The auction will be held at 133 River Street, Hackensack, NJ. Preview (inspection) will take place on auction day only from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

A PUBLISHER WRITES “This is the best day of my life!” exclaimed 15-year-old Jonah Gold of Tenafly, enjoying the attention heaped on him as “Chief for a Day.” Jonah has what is known as Aicardi Guitierez Syndrome, a genetic disease that afflicts youngsters with spasms and seizures, among other severe disabilities. Escorted by Tenafly’s actual [...]

North Jersey police departments, including Clifton, Bergenfield and Hackensack, have become more culturally diverse, hiring officers who speak second languages. But adding more Latino and Asian officers and learning key Spanish phrases may not always be enough to break down barriers between immigrants and local law enforcement.

EXCLUSIVE The ex-husband of a Fort Lee elementary school staffer who violated a restraining order by going to her job and then punching the principal was sentenced today to a plea-bargained five years in state prison. “I have lived next to that school for 28 years, and I have nothing but love for those kids,” [...]

On Friday, June 14, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office joined with 25 local and county law enforcement agencies to participate in the third annual Bergen County Chief for a Day celebration. The program provides children with chronic health conditions the opportunity to receive a behind-the-scenes look at law enforcement.

SHOUT OUT Bergen County Sheriff Michael Saudino and Deputy Sheriff Walter Hutchinson will be among those honored by the National Police Defense Foundation at this year’s New Jersey State Troopers Coalition dinner at the Venetian in Garfield — an event that attracts major figures from local and state law enforcement each year. Twenty-five percent of [...]

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT Jurors in Hackensack needed less than a day’s worth of deliberations to convict a Florida man today of bringing 16 pounds of marijuana to a Paramus restaurant parking lot for sale to a buyer who turned out to be an undercover detective. In a case where the evidence — more than [...]

A City Council candidate accused of stealing his opponent’s campaign signs has been granted a trial adjournment.

On Friday, June 14, 2013, the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office will partner with 24 local and county law enforcement agencies for the third annual countywide Chief for a Day celebration.

HACKENSACK — A bond ordinance for the sum of $513,000 was unanimously adopted after a final passage and public hearing on June 10. The project associated with this bond is street resurfacing and repaving.

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT The trial of a former mob associate from Palisades Park charged with rape ended in a hung jury yesterday. Bergen County prosecutors can now look to retry 73-year-old Angelo “Ken” Wendra, try to negotiate a plea deal or drop the case. Wedra, who on Monday was taken from the county courthouse [...]

County officials expect to break ground in August on a nearly $115 million Justice Center complex in Hackensack, which when completed in 2015 will be the largest bond project in the history of the county.

The League of Women Voters of Northern Valley (LWVNV), a nonpartisan political organization serving residents in 27 towns in Bergen County, announced the organization’s 2013-2014 board of directors and recognized a member’s contributions to the League at its annual meeting held recently at Griffin’s Restaurant in Cresskill, New Jersey.