Riverdale News

The Bloomingdale and Butler police departments say they've each cracked burglary cases in which a car, guns and jewelry were stolen.

Two missing hikers who ended up in Boonton Township after losing their way in Mountainside Park were found following a two-hour search on Sunday night, police said.

Courtney Cachet has never let life's big and little bumps sideline her from finding and following her dream of owning her own business.

A video of a dump truck allegedly barreling down Route 23 South's "Kill Hill," its wheels "smoking" as the driver struggles to brake for cars waiting in peril at the Windbeam Road traffic light is the "smoking gun" that Mayor William Budesheim said he needs to win his battle with the state Department of Transportation .

On May 18, a runaway dump-truck plowed into expecting mother Didi Bogert's car on Route 23 in Riverdale, N.J. "It just came right at the driver's side door," Bogert said.

Route 23's southbound freefall as it crosses over I-287 has claimed 139 casualties in vehicle crashes over the past decade.

BUTLER - Two pranksters accused of blocking traffic on Route 23 by placing traffic barrels in the middle of the road were caught after a brief foot chase, police said.

Natalie Vacca of Riverdale reaches for a potato chip at Stella G's in Hackettstown.

PEQUANNOCK -- Three people were arrested in connection with a drug bust at a Pompton Plains home on Wednesday afternoon \where authorities seized marijuana, prescription medicines, packing materials and more than $2,000 in cash.

The teenagers and adults who work out in Andy and Dawn Bricker's new fitness center have at least one thing in common besides trying to stay fit: They're paralyzed, including founder Dawn.

Last Thursday, Dr. Fredda Rosenberg, superintendent of schools, said she did not know the 44-year-old borough resident had tested positively for H1N1 when a decision was made to have an early dismissal on May 28 so the custodial staff could sanitize the district's schools.

An arsenal of cosmetics helped Liz Salemme, 24, of Riverdale, N.J., keep her psoriasis covered up.

The governing body will discuss if it will renew the liquor license for 26 Convenience Liquors on Route 23 North.

Greg Bogert has been preaching for years to the state Department of Transportation about the dangers of southbound Route 23's intersection with Windbeam Road where motorists waiting at a red light have too often found themselves targets of runaway trucks on a highway hill infamously named by this newspaper as "Kill Hill." On Monday morning, his ...

More than 800 soldiers from the New Jersey Army National Guard returned Friday from a one-year deployment in Iraq.

PEQUANNOCK-A Grove Street home was extensively damaged in an accidental fire on Thursday afternoon, and the residents displaced, police said.

A teenage driver from Riverdale whose two passengers died in a 2006 crash was sentenced late this afternoon to the 196 days that he has already served in the Morris County juvenile detention center, and three years of probation.

The Pompton Lakes and Riverdale police departments will hold this program together this summer.

The pregnant wife of a Riverdale police sergeant was hit while driving on Route 23, after a dump truck with failed brakes barreled through an intersection this morning, police said.

RIVERDALE -- The library's monthly book discussion group will meet Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The group is discussing 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde.