All the talk of heroism embarrassed Michael Moore. The 25-year-old Cliffside Park carpenter had pulled an unconscious 82-year-old man from a smoke-filled car moments before it exploded in flames. That was last year.
Two Rutherford men were charged Saturday with sexual assault and criminal sexual contact with a 16-year-old boy.
A Sheraton Heights Hotel employee taking a cigarette break in a fourth-floor linen closet Saturday ignited a fire that caused a limited evacuation and minor damage, officials said.
Rain forced a peace activists rally into a Broad Street church Saturday, where they issued a call for American troops to be withdrawn from the Middle East. They urged that the money being used to maintain the troops be spent on domestic problems.
A 20-year-old Ridgewood woman and a college classmate, on their way to buy refreshments during a study break, were struck and killed in Boston early Friday by a van driven by a Boston Celtics player who had been drinking, police said.
Thomas W. McCann, acting head of the Hudson County Parks Division and brother of Mayor Gerald McCann, was charged Saturday with drunken driving.
A 20-year-old Teaneck man died, apparently of a heart attack, while undergoing combat water survival training Friday at the Marine Corps training base at Parris Island, S.C., a Marine spokesman said.
Police have beefed up patrols of city streets after a 40-year-old woman walking to her car in a municipal parking lot was robbed, the fourth such incident in a week.
Investigators in Paramus, Englewood, and Englewood Cliffs are looking for a con man who stole three sports cars two in one day that were brought in for repairs at automobile dealerships.
The “backbone” of the state bureau enforcing liquor laws will be gutted under a cost-cutting plan that calls for 32 of the 72 enforcement agents to lose their jobs by the end of the month, inspectors said Wednesday.