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 [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A South Hackensack man who held a SWAT team at bay for 5½-hours after beating his wife was cleared today of the most serious charges against him but found guilty of four other counts. Spalnick sat motionless as the verdicts were read in Hackensack today. The jurors convicted Steven Spalnick [...]

Popular Assemblywoman Connie Wagner (D-38), Paramus, a three-term Democrat from Bergen County, will not seek reelection, she said Tuesday.

Wagner notified Democratic Party leadership this evening that she will not run again for reasons related to her family, sources said.

UPDATE A house-to-house and helicopter search was continuing late this morning for a Passaic man who rammed a van into a building and unsuccessfully tried to carjack a motorist after fleeing into Garfield. Lincoln School #6 was on lockdown as a squadron of police – including a K9 unit – conducted the search. One parent [...]

UPDATE A house-to-house and helicopter search ended this afternoon for a Passaic man who rammed a van into a building and unsuccessfully tried to carjack a motorist after fleeing into Garfield. Sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that police also went to an address in Lodi where they thought they might find him, without luck. Lodi’s Washington [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A daylong manhunt involving several police agencies ended just after 630 tonight with the capture and arrest of a Passaic man who rammed a van into a building and unsuccessfully tried to carjack a motorist after fleeing into Garfield. Sources told CLIFFVIEW PILOT that police found him on Palisade Avenue [...]

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST A daylong manhunt involving several law enforcement agencies ended early last night after a Garfield woman told a city police sergeant she’d found her apartment door forced open and dead-bolted from the inside – and police found their 47-year-old subject hiding in her attic. It wasn’t difficult for Sgt. John [...]

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EXCLUSIVE Steven Spalnick’s wife lay in a fetal position on the floor of their South Hackensack bathroom, cradling her infant son, her nose gushing blood. It was Christmas night 2011 and she’d been repeatedly beaten by her husband after a brief respite at her sister’s house, a prosecutor told jurors in Hackensack yesterday. “She had [...]

ONLY ON CVP Steven Spalnick wasn’t suffering from “diminished capacity” when he kept South Hackensack police and a Bergen County SWAT team at bay for hours on Christmas night 2011 after authorities said he beat his wife as she held their 5-month-old son, a judge in Hackensack ruled yesterday, clearing the way for a trial [...]

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.”

Parts of Little Ferry and South Hackensack lost power on Wednesday afternoon, police in both municipalities said.

Parts of Little Ferry and South Hackensack lost power on Wednesday afternoon, police in both municipalities said.

Bergen County General Election OFFICIAL Results - Nov 6, 2012