CRIME & SAFETY
Paramus Catholic athlete dies from injuries sustained in crash that killed her parents
Khameryn Oliver, a 17-year-old student-athlete at Paramus Catholic High School, who had remained in a coma since the March 16 five-car accident in Kearny that killed her mother and father, died Wednesday night, her grandmother Karen Oliver said. Oliver sent a text to NorthJersey.com saying her granddaughter had succumbed to her injuries. "No...
Parent Picking Up Child At Montvale School Arrested For DWI
Mayowa Kubikisha, 28, "seemed a little off," according to staff, after she pulled into the parking at Memorial Elementary School after the end of the school day on Thursday, May 9, Montvale Police Chief Douglas McDowell said. They became concerned and called his officers, the chief said. They had reason...
New City 20-Year-Old Accused Of Assaulting Trooper During Pro-Palestine Protest
The event was being held in the Hudson Valley, in Ulster County, at SUNY New Paltz on Thursday, May 2, and the state police were requested to respond. At around 12:15 a.m. on Thursday, May 3, while the state police were dispersing the crowd, a protestor threw a metal Gatorade bottle that hit a New York State Police investigator in the face, causing a laceration above his left eye.
5 Puppies Found Abandoned In Dumpster On I-684 In Northern Westchester
Authorities are searching for whoever abandoned five puppies inside a closed, air-tight container found inside a dumpster at a rest stop along a Northern Westchester highway. The five puppies were discovered on Monday, May 6 at the Bedford Rest Area along Interstate 684, New York State Police …
Animal control officer charged with animal cruelty had history of complaints, N.J. neighbors say
A Bergen County man working as an animal control officer and a dog kennel owner was arrested and charged with animal cruelty earlier this year after officials removed 37 dogs from his property. But, former neighbors and municipal officials who knew the man, Richard A. Dubarton III, when he was...
N.J. cop who led ‘robbery squad’ agrees to pay back $200K
Michael Cheff, the imprisoned former Paterson police sergeant who supervised a notorious ‘robbery squad’ that stole from residents, has agreed to pay back $200,000 in salary he collected while awaiting trial on federal corruption charges. In a settlement announced this week, Cheff agreed to pay back $200,000 of...
Student found with gun at K-8 school in N.J., district says
A student at a Paterson school was found with a gun when police came to question him there about an unrelated incident, officials said. Detectives went to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School on Wednesday afternoon to arrest the boy and discovered a handgun while searching him, a spokesman for the school district told NJ Advance Media.
Pickup Truck Backs Into, Severely Injures Woman At Northern Westchester Gas Station
A woman who suffered traumatic injuries when a pickup truck backed up over her at a Northern Westchester gas station was saved thanks to the help of a quick-thinking civilian who tended to her wounds before first responders arrived. The incident happened in Croton-on-Hudson on Tuesday, May 7, …
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