Garfield News

While residents in three quiet New Jersey towns slept, a group of vandals went around smashing windows and damaging cars.

Police in three neighboring towns are reporting early morning acts of vandalism where large stones were thrown at homes and cars.

A 17-year-old girl was killed in an East Side crash yesterday, three days after she graduated from high school, police and relatives said.

The driver of a truck that slammed into a car in Manhattan and killed a passenger has been arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide.

Police say the 22-year-old man from Garfield, N.J., was also charged with driving while intoxicated in the Sunday morning crash.

Police say 17-year-old Julie Tsang was a passenger in a car driving southbound on Park Avenue that turned onto East 65th Street and was hit by the truck. Tsang died at the scene of the accident.

Police say Tsang's friend, who was driving the car, was taken to a nearby hospital. She was in critical condition Sunday night. The driver of the truck was unhurt.

Paramus-based Care Plus Foundation celebrated its 10th Annual Courage Awards Dinner at The Venetian in Garfield on the evening of June 18.

State police charged a New Jersey woman with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated after her car sideswiped two other vehicles yesterday on Route 22, just north of Doansburg Road, then rolled over, police said.

The New Jersey program for cleaning up old toxic sites has broken down and requires immediate federal intervention, according to a new report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector ...

UPDATE: Appelgate Farms owner Jason Street is helping neighbors and merchants with his supply of dry ice.

An Albanian national who sent two goons to carve up his ex-girlfriend's face was arrested as he cowered in the basement of a Garfield, NJ, home, cops said yesterday.

Aleksander Vacaj, 32, was arrested today for allegedly hiring two thugs to carve up his ex-girlfriend's face.

A Passaic man who survived a scaffold accident that killed two people is in stable condition at Jersey City Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said today.

A scaffold holding three painters at a Bayonne industrial complex collapsed Saturday, killing two of them and seriously injuring the other.

Brooklyn : To Voicer John C. Mackus : Thank you for your hilarious letter about trying to buy cold medicine.

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“It's almost like, when my parents would discipline us, they would say, 'I'm doing this because I love you”

The Rev. Calvin McKinney is the first to admit his preaching can cause discomfort. via The Clarion-Ledger

“There are drugs, there is money, there are guns”

Timing is everything in business, even the drug business. That was the credo of a North Jersey narcotics gang whose payroll included a UPS truck driver who used his route to express-deliver cocaine, authorities ... via New Jersey Online

“All the operating costs go away, because the operating costs get absorbed by the Bergen County police”

Secret negotiations to merge the Lodi and Bergen County police forces appear to have failed, officials say, dealing a setback to efforts to share services among Bergen County's patchwork of municipalities. via North Jersey Media Group

“It's about time they give them a contract, don't you think?”

Garfield, N.J. - It was an unexpected day off from school Thursday, for thousands of students in New Jersey. via CW11 New York WPIX-TV

“The teachers will be in (Friday); I haven't heard anything to the contrary.”

Garfield public schools are expected to re-open Friday after a sick-out by 350 teachers forced the district to close school today, officials said. via Jersey Journal

Parents got the word Wednesday night, when the district used a reverse 911 system to notify them. via Courier News