Bergen County News

Westbrook School got a new principal Tuesday, as the school board appointed Woodcliff Lake's former director of instructional services, Deanne Somers, for the 2014-15 school year.

A Hudson County man is hoping to be reunited with his 13-year-old daughter, who was detained crossing the border.

Since she moved from a single-family home to an apartment in downtown Englewood, Linda Kourakos has been able to spend less time in the car and more time on foot.

First-time buyers Kyle and Wanda Conboy faced facts and accepted that if they wanted to move to Manhattan Terrace in Dumont, Kyle's hometown, they'd have to find a property in need of some updating.

Hundreds of friends, family and former colleagues gathered in Fort Lee on Sunday to pay their final respects to Rebecca Serkey, the former Bergen County paramedic who died earlier this month in New Mexico when her medical helicopter crashed while flying to pick up a patient.

Greater need, fewer donations - it is the annual summer plight of food pantries in North Jersey and around the state.

Procida, born and bred in Bergen County, is involved in projects as varied as the rehabbing of apartment buildings in Paterson's worst neighborhood, redeveloping a landmark hotel in Philadelphia and building hundreds of town houses at the Jersey Shore.

Kevin Macfie, left, and Adnan Manla, both in Bergen County Jail for failing to pay child support.

A 23-year-old North Bergen man faces charges in connection with a deadly hit-and-run in Carlstadt early Saturday, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said.

Anne Pless, left front, and Susan MacMillan, right front, lead the walk as they arrive at Northern Highlands during the walk.

A Ridgewood, New Jersey man is taking a 10,000 mile motorcycle journey around the continental U.S. to raise money and awareness for seriously injured veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.

The owners of a Bergen County moving company provided artificially low estimates to customers and then threatened to drive off with their belongings if they didn't immediately pay as much as double the original quote, the Attorney General's Office said.

Golfer Leo Lee of Wyckoff was off to a great start at his first New Jersey Junior Championship, which kicked off yesterday in Union at the Suburban Golf Club and ends today.

More than 100 family members and friends of a limousine driver who was slain in a shooting on Route 80 in Saddle Brook last month gathered on the steps of the Bergen County CourtA house on Thursday to demand justice, an end to violence and stricter measures to control firearms in New Jersey.

Nicole Hatton of Hackensack remains heartbroken, disbelieving and confused two years after her son hanged himself in a holding cell at the Hackensack police station.

The clashing opinions of psychiatrists are at the heart of a murder case that went to a jury in Hackensack on Thursday, exactly four years after a World War II veteran died of injuries suffered in a brutal bludgeoning in his Fairview home.

A 20-year-old man is dead and two others are injured after a car hit a building in Ridgefield.

The lawyer for Bergen County Human Services Director Jane Linter is calling for the impeachment of County Executive Kathleen Donovan for trying to demote Linter, but he got a cool reception from several lawmakers, who scoffed at the request.

Wounded IDF soldier Moshe Hirt, a graduate of Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva, told the school's principal that hundreds of people have visited him in the hospital, letting him know that " am Yisrael is one big family."

The net loss for the second quarter of 2014 was due primarily to the sale of OREO properties during the quarter at a loss of .