Bergen County News

A Corning man accused of traveling to New Jersey to have sex with underage children took a plea deal Wednesday that could put him in prison for a decade.

Dennis Gerber, 57, who worked in Lincoln Park for 10 years, was charged with six counts each of official misconduct and theft.

The sound of a window shattering in the distance tipped off Rutherford Police to the location of two Newark males, who were reportedly caught red-handed breaking into a car.

Not all bills are created equal. Some become law. Some are proposed and forgotten.

The schemes, allegedly conducted by associates of two related businesses, GEMP, LLC.

An 84-year-old Burlington County woman has died and five other New Jersey residents became sick in separate incidents after drinking a small amount of torch oil they mistook for apple juice, New Jersey poison ...

A self-employed contractor operating a backhoe on the outside of a Bergen County house was killed this afternoon when the machine's arm and bucket fell back and pinned him in the seat, police said.

New Jersey drivers may want to double-check their shock absorbers. That's because high asphalt prices are causing transportation officials to put off repaving roads.

The committee decided to postpone approving the bond in order to find what fuel efficient options are out there, but after a few weeks Deputy Mayor Al Cirulli said he found a tentative answer: not much.

Record, The; Bergen County, N.J. NEW YORK Just months after returning to the airwaves with a pledge to mend the wounds caused by his racist and sexist comment about a women's basketball team, Don Imus is again ...

Health officials have confirmed three more cases of New Jersey residents, two of them children, infected with salmonella linked to tainted tomatoes.

The three new cases, reported Tuesday, come days after the state Department of Health and Senior Services reported the first New Jersey case linked to an outbreak that has sickened more than 600 people nationwide.

Officials said the four people -- a 7-year-old from Monmouth County, a 2-year-old from Bergen County, and two women, 34 and 41, from Camden County -- got sick from May 23 to June 3.

As true children of the '80s in Bergen County, New Jersey, they grew up rocking out to the likes of Bon Jovi, Journey and Metallica.

Robert Ortiz's reign as Bergen County Republican Chairman came to an end tonight, just 11 months after he took the helm of this beleaguered party.

Two former Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were hauled into jail Thursday and charged with lying to investors about the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, perhaps signaling the start of a wave of ...

Police in Bergen County issued 317 tickets to teen drivers for violating terms of their graduated driver licenses.

A township man convicted of sexual assault has been charged with violating the terms of his probation.

TRENTON, N.J. -- An aquarium may be coming to the Meadowlands. The Assembly on Monday approved a bill allowing an aquarium at the Bergen County complex.

Saturday morning was the calm before the storm.

The day started off with mostly sunny skies, but courtesy of a cold front west of our area, clouds began rolling in, bringing showers and thunderstorms to the tri-state later in the day.

Isolated severe thunderstorms are possible throughout the tri-state this evening. The main threat from thunderstorms will be wind gusts to 60 mph and hail to one inch in diameter. Storms will move east at 5 to 10 mph. Dangerous lightning is also possible.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- State police say a plainclothes state trooper was trying to regain control when he drew his gun on rapper Jim Jones and his entourage.

Chemical vapors from a near-century old former explosives plant are troubling a northern New Jersey neighborhood again.