Bergen County News

Authorities are currently seeking a 28-year-old Paterson man believed to have made off with thousands of dollars when he allegedly robbed a bank in Kearny on Wednesday afternoon.

Vapor stores, also known as e-cigarette stores, are popping up around southern Bergen County, causing concern amongst some elected officials who believe that more teenagers will get addicted to nicotine.

LEONIA - A Leonia man was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage girl and lured a 6-year-old boy from a park to his apartment, where a group of teens stopped the child from going inside, authorities said Thursday.

Pictured are Susanna Hreno, Carly Newman, and Jennifer Tran, three of Union School's talented 8th graders, sculpting their own heads at the 39th Annual Bergen County Teen Arts Festival, an inspiring celebration of young people and the arts.

R&S Landscaping recently announced that the subject of its fifth annual photo contest will be New Jersey's native flowers.

Recent car thefts in Saddle River are believed to be related to a car theft ring that's hit Bergen County and throughout the state in the last couple of years, Police Chief Timothy McWilliams said.

A Clifton resident was arrested on June 25 on charges of attempting to hinder the arrest of an Elmwood Park man charged with aggravated sexual assault, officials said.

Police investigate a bank robbery at Spencer Savings Bank on South Main Street. Bergen County Sheriff's Officers assist the Lodi Police Department in processing the scene of a bank robbery.

Two-year old Kayden Kinckle of Englewood with dad Kevin. He had to have a leg and a foot amputated and recently walked by himself for the first time using prosthetics, an event recorded and posted online.

The 22-year-old grandson of a Fairview veteran - who was robbed and beaten over the head with a pan - testified Wednesday against his friend who is charged in the attack.

As a follow-up her critically-acclaimed debut novel The Colony that was published in 2012, Mahwah author AJ Colucci is returning to science fiction for her second book, being released nationwide this month.

Four teenagers charged in the high school senior prank appeared before a municipal court judge on Wednesday and some of them asked to have their cases put on hold pending a review of the evidence.

Carlos Marroquin, 52, of Los Angeles, was convicted by a Bergen County jury Tuesday of drug and money-laundering charges for his role in a transcontinental drug ring linked to Metuchen and Hackensack, state authorities said today.

The former Ridgewood official who confessed in March to stealing $460,000 in loose parking meter quarters from a storage room inside Village Hall is to be sentenced this afternoon.

Pilings are being driven into place at the site of the new Bergen County complex that will include the justice center.

Hudson County officials are looking into whether the recent arrest of the owner a Jersey City auto body shop in a gambling ring probe should have an impact on whether his company can continue to be a county contractor, officials said today.

To meet its mission of delivering nutritious fruits and vegetables to the hungry, the Center For Food Action in Englewood has found a seemingly simple solution: grow them in its backyard.

The borough is hopeful construction will begin on its first affordable housing facility for seniors in the spring of 2015.

For years, it's been known as one of the finest Italian restaurants in all of Bergen County.

The acquisition project's funds include the largest municipal acquisition grant for flooding - $1.4 million - that the Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund has ever approved.