Bergen County News

The search for a missing northern New Jersey woman resumed early Friday as police boats and divers again combed an area of the Passaic River.

When it comes to buying United States and New Jersey flags, Garden State lawmakers say "Made in the USA" is the only way.

A jury in New Jersey Superior Court this morning rendered a not guilty verdict in the case of a New Jersey police officer who was charged with reckless manslaughter in the shooting of a Ramapo Town worker who died of his injuries.

A teacher at a Japanese cultural school in Bergen County has been charged with fondling three students, according to police.

Bald eagles are now a visible -- and growing -- site in New Jersey. It has been half a century, but bald eagles are finally being spotted in the skies over New York City .

Three students in New Jersey are accused of hacking into their school's computer system to access final exams.

A cook who taught at a Japanese cultural school in River Edge on weekends has been charged with fondling several students, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Tuesday.

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram today unveiled three separate mortgage fraud indictments, including a $1.15 million conspiracy to steal identities for fraudulent loans and credit cards.

Six people have died from swine flu in New Jersey, officials said. The state Health and Senior Services Department says the latest victim is a woman in her 40s from Bergen County who had underlying health conditions.

Firefighters battled a smoky fire Tuesday night at a block-long abandoned industrial building on Garibaldi Avenue.

The peregrine falcon is showing signs of recovery in one New Jersey County after dying off east of the Mississippi River in the early 1960s because of DDT pesticide.

NAI James E. Hanson, a leading New Jersey-based commercial real estate firm, has been named the exclusive sales agent for a 1.3 acre vacant lot, which is available for development and is located at 131 Rochelle Avenue in Rochelle Park, New Jersey.

Thirty people charged with underage drinking aboard a party bus carrying Morristown High School students on an after-prom excursion have pleaded not guilty.

Bergen County's arson unit has launched an investigation into the cause of a massive fire at an industrial building that took more than 100 firefighters from 16 departments to control, officials said.

Jurors in the Morris County murder trial of teenager James Zarate heard polar-opposite arguments today of whether he should be found guilty or acquitted of the killing and dismemberment of a Randolph girl in 2005.

A conclave of veteran Bergen County Democrats are mapping out campaign strategy at twice-monthly dinner meetings in Hackensack, prompted by fears that the Bergen County Democratic Organization's legacy of scandal could imperil Governor Corzine's re-election. The two-month old supper club - where once-bitter foes brainstorm over pasta and wine - is ...

On Wednesday, June 3rd, approximately two hundred supporters of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BERGEN COUNTY honored the 2009 Builder of the Year Award recipients at The Estate of Florentine Gardens in Rivervale, NJ.

A Wallington woman and a Paterson man were arrested Tuesday after they allegedly robbed a man who had summoned her to his Route 46 hotel room by calling an escort service, authorities said.

The fierce hailstorm that turned parts of Bergen County into a springtime winter wonderland on Monday was produced by high-hanging clouds that moved southeastward at an exceptionally slow pace, forecasters said yesterday.

Some northern New Jersey residents say it looked like the middle of winter in the middle of June.