Beginning on May 20, law enforcement officials will be out in full force, taking part in the 2013 national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization and cracking down on motorists who are not belted.

“Officers throughout New Jersey are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing their seat belt.”

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.

A Ridgefield florist was convicted Friday of murdering his business partner three years ago. Thomas Battinelli, 55, was on trial in Superior Court in Hackensack for more than a month, but the jury in Superior Court in Hackensack returned after less than three hours of deliberations to find him guilty of the murder of Michael Murphy of Montvale

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Jurors in Hackensack today convicted Ridgefield flower salesman Thomas Battinelli of shooting his business partner in the back of the head as he sat at his desk in their Garfield shop. The verdict was returned after a little more than a day of deliberations. Thomas Battinelli was portrayed by Assistant [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Jurors in Hackensack today convicted Ridgefield flower salesman Thomas Battinelli of shooting his business partner in the back of the head as he sat at his desk in their Garfield shop. Thomas Battanelli "(above, right") looked stunned as the verdicts, which included several counts of hindering, theft and unlawful weapons [...]

Two Ridgefield park High School students have received awards in teh 2013 Congressional Art Competition.

ONLY ON CLIFFVIEW PILOT “He is so cold, so calculating, that he sits and waits — like any good hunter would,” Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer told jurors during closing arguments yesterday in the murder trial of Thomas Battinelli, accused of killing his business partner of 20 years at their Garfield shop. And he [...]

Jurors in Hackensack will begin deliberating Friday in the trial of a Ridgefield florist accused of murdering his business partner three years ago.

A day after voters rejected spending money for a planned multimillion-dollar civic center, backers said they were shocked and frustrated by Tuesday’s resounding defeat.

A Ridgefield Park masonry contractor has been cited by federal safety officials, and faces a $46,200 penalty, for alleged repeat violations for failing to protect workers from falling objects and falls.

Ridgefield voters overwhelmingly rejected a plan to spend $550,000 in preliminary costs toward the construction of a new $15 million community center on Tuesday, according to Linda Silvestri, the municipal clerk.

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST Federal agents last night arrested a 73-year-old Ridgefield aircraft parts supplier from Edgewater on charges of laundering scrapped jet engine parts. Gideon Vaisman, the sole owner of Tara Technology Corp., is tentatively due for a first appearance in federal court in Newark this afternoon, the government said this morning. CHECK [...]

Today is Election Day. Polls in Hackensack, Lyndhurst, Passaic and Ridgefield open at 6 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.