YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST A driver and his passenger got out safely tonight after their BMW got wedged below a tractor-trailer just off Route 4 in Paramus. The crash occurred about 740 p.m. in the parking lot of the Plaza 35 Shopping Center on westbound Route 4 between Spring Valley Road and Farview Avenue. [...]

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited masonry contractor F. Pardo Corp., based in Ridgefield Park, with two repeat violations found while the company installed brickwork on a residential structure in Paramus. OSHA's February investigation was initiated as a result of an imminent danger fall hazard. Proposed penalties total $46,200.

Senator Bob Gordon, Assemblyman Tim Eustace and Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (all D-Bergen/Passaic) today hailed the Governor's announcement that $300 million in federal funding will be used to buy out Sandy-affected properties as well as repetitively flood-damaged homes in the Passaic River Basin, but said that relief is needed for residents in flood-prone areas statewide.

To no surprise Tea Party Darling and Republican New Jersey Congressman Scott Garrett (Bergen, Sussex, Warren) voted for the 37th time to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

Yavneh Academy appeared before the Paramus Zoning Board of Adjustment on May 9 to propose an addition to the existing building that will add five classrooms, a new lobby area and additional parking spaces.

Department is facing even more retirements this year than originally anticipated.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A federal judge this afternoon ordered that notorious bank robber — who once taunted authorities while holding up nearly two dozen banks across the country before they put him in prison for 25 years — be held without bail in connection with a $4,658 Oakland bank robbery last month. John [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A notorious bank robber who once taunted authorities while holding up nearly two dozen banks across the country before they put him in prison for 25 years is going before a federal judge in Newrk this afternoon in connection with a $4,658 Oakland bank robbery last month. John Edward Stevens, [...]

A Pennsylvania judge ruled Tuesday there is sufficient evidence to put a New Jersey man on trial in the death of a 20-year-old woman who was struck and killed last summer by a pickup while running along the side of a road.

The Utility/Laundry Annex Building at the rear of the Mount Saint Andrew Villa Sanatorium was torn down last week.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Members of the Paramus Rescue Squad used the Jaws of Life to free a man who was trapped in his Honda Civic following a collision this morning with a tour bus on northbound Route 17. The driver was taken by Paramus EMS ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center with what [...]

A tour bus accident along northbound Route 17 has caused significant backups on Route 80, authorities said Tuesday.

A preliminary hearing for Philip Cise, 49, who has a history of mental illness, is set for today at 11 a.m. Cise faces charges of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence, homicide by vehicle and driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance, along with a host of traffic violations.

ANOTHER CVP SCOOP After at first changing his mind, a bank robber instantly recognized in surveillance photos after the holdup pleaded guilty today to robbing a Chase branch in Lodi last May. Robert Galasso accepted prosecutors’ offer of six years in prison, followed by three years of parole supervision, in exchange for today’s plea in [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A Paramus man who authorities said had a stockpile of weapons and ammunition at his home pleaded guilty today to a single count of weapons possession and another of making terroristic threats. Officers from Paramus and Bogota went to Leonard Eng’s home last July in response to reports of him [...]

Members of library board appear before the Mayor and Council to discuss the need for an expansion of the main building.

EXCLUSIVE Pesticide poisoning could be responsible for striking down four students — three of whom had to be hospitalized — at the Bergen County EMS Training Center in Paramus last night, a source with direct knowledge of the incident told CLIFFVIEW PILOT today. Despite calls and messages that began this morning, Bergen County Executive Kathleen [...]

Vornado Realty Trust, with significant operations in Paramus, today announced two C-suite level appointments.

EXCLUSIVE An adult student at the Bergen County EMS Training Center in Paramus told CLIFFVIEW PILOT early this morning that officials there didn’t evacuate the building last night until nearly a half-hour after several young students were overcome by some type of fumes. Authorities were trying to determine what was responsible for causing at least [...]