Bergen County News

The civil suit filed in Superior Court in Bergen County on Friday by the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission names Coniglio and his campaign treasurers, and seeks repayment of the funds, as well as civil penalties.

Colleen Tronlone fills out the paperwork before submitting a sample to test for a bone marrow match.

FORT LEE - The 17th season of "Dancing With the Stars" recently ended for the show's professional dancers, including Valentin Chmerkovskiy and Tony Dovolani - but it was right back to the ballroom for the pair Wednesday night.

The North Jersey Chorus will present "Sights and Sounds of the Holidays" featuring violin soloist Dr. Tamara Freeman on Saturday, Dec. 7, at 8 p.m. at Van Riper Ellis Broadway Baptist Church, corner of Morlot Avenue and River Road, in Fair Lawn .

We'll excuse you if you don't have your own FM radio station and dancing Christmas characters to go with this year's holiday decorations.

Some called the Nobel Peace Prize laureate their hero, while others said they couldn't fathom a world without Mandela, the first black to ever be elected President of South Africa after long years in imprisonment.

In 2006, Daniel Gatson was convicted of stealing jewelry, cars and electronics from the Englewood Cliffs home of former Knicks star Patrick Ewing.

Gov. Chris Christie speaking during a news briefing at the Republican Governors Association 2013 annual conference as South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley looks on.

New Jersey officials Wednesday announced more than $141 million in state funds would be going to 208 construction projects at schools across Bergen County.

New Jersey's high school graduation rate inched up to 87.5 percent last spring, up one percentage point from the year before, state data showed Wednesday.

The Christmas shopping season got off to a much more leisurely start when I was a boy growing up in Bergen County in the days before World War II.

About 120 people gathered at Van Saun Park in Paramus on Wednesday night for a candlelight vigil in remembrance of recent victims of apparent domestic violence.

Students in professor John Buzza's entrepreneurship class are partnering with energy-efficient lighting manufacturer Green-RG to help launch the Bergen County company's products in the New Jersey marketplace.

Four Elizabeth men have been charged by Mahwah detectives with beating and robbing a service station courier of $60,000 in cash in Bergen County.

Fort Lee police will receive a $4,400 grant to crack down on drunk driving through the holiday season, state officials announced Wednesday.

ROCHELLE PARK - Police are working to identify the body of a woman who was found off of Route 17 this morning.

Assemblyman Robert Schroeder has been charged with allegedly stealing more than $1.8 million from people who loaned him money and writing more than $3.4 million in bad checks.

The Federal Reserve said Tuesday that it approved fast-growing Investors Bancorp Inc.'s long-pending purchase of Roma Financial Corp. in Mercer County while requiring that the Short Hills -based acquirer take steps to address concerns about discriminatory lending and consumer protections.

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan gives her speech at the first fund-raiser of her re-election campaign with a $75-a-person cocktail party at Il Villaggio in Carlstadt, on December 3. Kathleen Donovan vowed Tuesday to wage a vigorous campaign for re-election to Bergen County executive, a fight that may involve opposition from within her own ... (more)

A Cliffside Park man urged an accomplice to "finish" another borough man with a knife during a domestic dispute and later helped with dismembering the victim's body, an assistant Bergen County prosecutor said in laying out the state's case Tuesday.