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It's easy to zip around sampling what Fort Lee has to offer; many of its best spots are casual eateries that are perfect for dropping in for a bite.

Feeling spiritually bankrupt after watching Bernie Madoff's sentencing, I took the subway uptown to the Union Theological Seminary, where they teach a class called "Christianity and the U.S. Crisis." "As a nation, as a culture, as Christians, we have behaved abominably," Serene Jones, the school's president, told me in her office.

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A high school guidance counselor in northern New Jersey has been accused of tampering with student transcripts.

A borough high school guidance counselor was arrested this morning and accused of tampering with student transcripts, police said.

As crimes go, we don't usually think of fraud in the same way we think of violent crimes like murder and rape.

NEW YORK - Bernard Madoff, the most reviled emblem of business corruption to emerge from the nation's latest gilded age, was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison Monday for bilking thousands of investors worldwide in what was arguably history's largest and longest Ponzi scheme.

ENGLEWOOD a ' The Fire Department is taking over emergency medical services in the city, under a new plan that charges residents' insurance carriers for ambulance rides.

Helen Davis Chaitman is a victim of Bernard L. Madoff's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.

FORT LEE, N.J., June 26, 2009 -- Bancorp of New Jersey, Inc. , the holding for Bank of New Jersey announced the promotion of Michael Lesler to President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company and the Bank.

TOKYO, June 26, 2009--The Company announces that at its meeting held on June 26, the Board of Directors decided to establish a wholly-owned company in the United States in July this year as follows: 1. Purposes and an outline of the holding company The Company has been promoting a business development in the United States with emphasis on ...

By 9:30 on a spring Tuesday morning, cyclists were already peering into the windows of the new Strictly Bicycles shop in Fort Lee to see if owners Nelson Gutierrez and his wife, Joanna, were in yet.

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WHAT'S NEW: A state Superior Court judge has reinstated Ridgefield Park Court Administrator Susan Vargas almost three years after she was suspended following a 2006 incident with police.

Throw the book at him -- and then some. More than 110 victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme have sent e-mails -- in turns scathing and heart-wrenching -- to a Manhattan federal judge asking him to slap the scammer with a maximum sentence of 150 years in jail.

We're starting to hear talk of recovery . . . but jobs are still on the chopping block and iconic businesses are going belly up.

A gathering of book lovers and New Jersey authors in Paramus Sunday included a call for taxpayers to support municipal, state and federal funding for the state's libraries, which are doing a booming business in a time of threatened budget cuts.

AS BATTLEFIELDS GO, the stretch of lowland along the Hackensack River isn't much to look at.

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A suspended Passaic, N.J., police officer who was caught on tape beating a schizophrenic man is defending his behavior, claiming he was responding in the way that his training dictated.