Bergen County News

The council came up short again Tuesday, July 8, in its attempts to introduce a municipal budget for 2014.

So it is good news that Oakland has been granted $2 million, most of it from the Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund, to buy and raze six homes along the Ramapo River.

Village officials said a forensic accounting firm has been retained to examine how a former employee managed to steal $460,000 in quarters from parking meters.

Two Bergen County men charged with burglarizing two Nutley homes and leading police on a high-speed car chase into Passaic County were each given the maximum prison sentence allowed by a judge on Friday.

A Hackensack man was sentenced Friday to eight years in state prison for sexually assaulting his 9-year-old cousin.

With funding set to expire early next year, local and county officials are working to find sources to keep the wheels on the Tri-Boro Shuttle rolling, Montvale Councilwoman Leah LaMonica announced at the town's July 8 council meeting.

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan continues to build a hefty lead in fundraising over her Democratic opponent, James Tedesco, getting large boosts from a leading state Republican and the county committee, according to the most recent round of campaign finance reports.

CRIME ISN'T supposed to pay. But for the former village of Ridgewood public works inspector who pleaded guilty to stealing about $460,000 in parking meter proceeds, that has not quite been the case.

A multiagency investigation led to the arrest of a 53-year-old Fort Lee man on July 3 for allegedly acquiring and distributing more than 100 images and videos of child pornography.

School buses pulling into the John Leckie Bus Co. lot in Hackensack. The company serves several school districts in Bergen County.

A New Jersey man wanted for a vicious punch that was caught on camera in New York City was arrested in New Jersey.

Bail bond companies across from the Bergen County Jail in Hackensack advertise payment plans for defendants looking to be set free before trial.

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.