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Teaneck woman reappointed to breast cancer advisory committee to CDC

ONLY ON CVP A New York man convicted of sealing his girlfriend’s body in the basement steps of a Teaneck building after killing her in his Harlem apartment in 2008 is going to trial on July 16. Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Danielle Grootenboer told Presiding Superior Court Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi this morning that she will [...]

The Fair Lawn Police Department was one of 29 state, county and local law enforcement agencies awarded accreditation by the New Jersey Association of Chiefs of Police "(NJSACOP") on May 9 in Princeton.

WHAT WE THINK Finally, the silliness ends and a dangerous red oak tree in Teaneck comes closer to coming down. Last August, the Teaneck Council wisely refused to designate the tree an historic site. But that changed in February, when common sense caved under pressure from a group of “concerned” residents. It took a report [...]

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.”

Just months after it was designated a township historic site, an oak tree that has towered over the corner of Cedar Lane and Palisade Avenue for centuries has been found to be unstable and must be removed, county officials said Saturday.

Saturday, May 18 - Music Director, David Gilbert & featured artists are: Teaneck resident, Allan Schiller & Diane Lang.

A Teaneck man has been was arrested as part of a massive law enforcement operation that authorities say resulted in 25 arrest warrants and broke up a major Pennsylvania drug ring.

The Hispanic Business Council Scholarship Foundation of NJ, Inc. (HBCSF) will award $47,000 in scholarships and stipends for course-required materials to 21 current college and college-bound Hispanic students from New Jersey at the 22nd Annual Scholarship Gala. Janet Sharma, Executive Director of the Volunteer Center of Bergen County, will be honored for her leadership and contributions to the community.

A major drug sweep based in southeast Pennsylvania stretched to Teaneck, where township police helped arrest a suspect after watching an East Maple Street residence for nearly three hours. Eric Feliz was being held in the Bergen County Jail pending extradition. Authorities armed with 25 arrest warrants fanned out yesterday, primarily in Berks County, Pa.,  [...]

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

The Hispanic Business Council Scholarship Foundation of NJ, Inc. (HBCSF) will award $47,000 in scholarships and stipends for course-required materials to 21 current college and college-bound Hispanic students from New Jersey at the 22nd Annual Scholarship Gala.

IN TUNE Some sweet things have happened while Jay and Sean Sproviero, the teenaged founding brothers of Doomsday Diaries, were making other plans. One of them is opening this Friday for Zebra at bergenPAC in Englewood. “Over the last few years, we’ve been lucky enough to meet, and sometimes perform with, some incredible musicians, like [...]

Weekly report from the Teaneck Police Department.

A 44-year-old Hackensack man was the victim of a road rage incident last week on Cedar Lane in which he was allegedly pulled from his car, beaten and then left in a parking lot as the culprits drove off in his minivan, police said.

Police have announced the results of a one-day undercover operation targeting drivers who did not yield to pedestrians on busy Cedar Lane 33 motor vehicle summonses or warnings.

Police have announced the results of a one-day undercover operation targeting drivers who did not yield to pedestrians on busy Cedar Lane 30 motor vehicle summonses or warnings.

INSIDE THE STORY A 75-year-old man and 66-year-old woman terrorized fellow residents of an Englewood senior housing complex – turning their apartments into a brothel and drug den that drew undesirables from throughout the city — until police teamed up with the Housing Authority and its law-abiding tenants to take back the building, Police Chief [...]

The Teaneck Council adopted the 2013 municipal budget last week, bringing to a close a lengthy process that involved calls for cuts from several residents and the issuing of $2.2 million in refunding bonds over the next three years to pay the 1,800 successful tax appeals that were filed in 2012.

Police are looking for four men who they say dragged a Hackensack man from his minivan, beat him up and then fled in the victim’s vehicle, before abandoning it at a parking lot, authorities said.

Pickle specialty store Pickle Licious in Teaneck and specialty food company Heartbreaking Dawns in Wyckoff will join Mr. Green Tea in Keyport as the show’s first competitors, joining a growing trend on reality TV where small businesses are becoming the stars.

A JUSTICE STORY Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi spent a week debating how to sentence a Queens nightclub owner who was acquitted of killing two associates on a Teaneck street but convicted of drug conspiracy and lying to police. “You are two very, very different people,” DeAvila-Silebi, the presiding Superior Court judge in Bergen County, told Nicholas [...]

The Teaneck native also co-created ""Lost""

A Queens night-club owner was sentenced Friday to 13 years in prison for his role in a narcotics conspiracy in which two men were murdered on a quiet Teaneck street three years ago.