Bergen County News

Firearms are stacked on a table after a gun buyback in Bergen County last year. Federally-mandated background checks for people looking to purchase guns in New Jersey saw a nearly 40 percent spike last year.

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HACKENSACK - The Bergen County Prosecutor's Office has served subpoenas to Bergen County , Hackensack and North Arlington seeking information about the employment of a public relations consultant who works for all three entities, government and law enforcement sources said on Wednesday.

Absent were some of the sharper criticisms of other public officials notable in her last two speeches, such as when she blamed the sheriff for "reckless" spending or lambasted Democrats for "undisciplined spending" when they ran county government.

HACKENSACK - City prosecutors have dropped two summonses filed against a woman whose vehicle struck and killed well-known business owner Jerome Some, clearing her of all wrongdoing in the case, her lawyer said Wednesday.

Voters in 11 of 13 New Jersey school districts holding bond referendums on March 11 approved a total of $116.1 million in school construction, the New Jersey School Boards Association reported today.

After a unanimous vote, the Democratic Committee of Bergen County endorsed U.S. Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. for re-election as the Representative for New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District during their annual convention last evening in Paramus.

ELMWOOD PARK Two drivers who collided head-on in a fiery Route 46 crash early Wednesday have been charged in connection with the wreck, which left a Lyndhurst woman seriously injured, prosecutors said.

BERGEN COUNTY - Authorities were investigating two possible luring attempts in Bergen County this week and released a sketch of a man sought in one of the reported incidents.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, center, sits with her attorney Michael Critchley, left, and defense team member attorney Edmund DeNoia, right, during a hearing Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Attorneys for Kelly and former Christie campaign manager Bill Stepien were in court to try to ... (more)

The federal case against a Lopatcong Township man who allegedly sold a gun to a confidential informant is moving forward and is on track for trial.

Hillsdale police have charged Shain Prefi, a 24-year-old borough resident, for the alleged possession of steroids and syringes they found at his St. Nicholas Avenue home last weekend.

New Jersey is the only state in the country without an official state song, and a Bergen County music teacher wants to change that.

A 30-year-old Garfield man faces charges of engaging in sexual activity with an 11-year-old girl, authorities said.

After firmly refusing to allow the state to repave the tattered Palisades Interstate Parkway, New Jersey's transportation commissioner reversed himself last weekend.

The Giants and Jets have agreed to drop their two-year-old lawsuit against American Dream Meadowlands developer Triple Five, while the company has in turn dropped its own year-old suit against the National Football League franchises.

GARFIELD - A Lodi motorist faces drug charges after a Bergen County Sheriff's officer pulled him over and discovered 120 envelopes of heroin in the man's trunk, authorities said Tuesday.

A 28-year-old Bergen County woman is facing manslaughter and felony assault charges for allegedly playing doctor in a black market booty injection procedure that resulted in the death of a 22-year-old single mother .

The Obamacare requirement that mid-sized employers supply their full-time workers with affordable health insurance has been delayed another year.

Inmates in Bergen and Passaic counties' jails are paying less to make interstate calls as the result of a Federal Communications Commission ruling that imposed a cap on what companies can charge to run an inmate phone system.