Category: The Record
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URBAN LEAGUE HONORS STUDENTS
Christopher Sanders said he did not know he would receive an award at the annual Urban League Salute to African American Scholars until he arrived at the ceremonies Sunday in Hackensack.
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SCHUBER LEADS REGIONALIZATION TALKS
In the first of what new Bergen County Executive William “Pat” Schuber said he hopes will become regular meetings of municipal leaders, representatives of 45 county communities met with him Saturday to talk about regionalization and consolidation of services.
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POLICE SAY MEN SOLD COCAINE IN PARKING LOT
City police, responding to residents complaints of rampant drug dealing at their apartment building, have arrested two men they saw allegedly selling cocaine in the parking lot.
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TONS CONFISCATED, 8 ARRESTED; NEW JERSEY’S BIGGEST DRUG BUST
In what is being called New Jersey’s largest drug haul ever, undercover U.S. Customs Service agents Friday seized 4,700 pounds of cocaine, 7,000 pounds of marijuana, and $995,000 in cash, and arrested eight men connected to the shipment.
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COPS PROBE HOW WOMAN IN SPAT FELL FROM WINDOW
Investigators are trying to determine how a 24-year-old Jersey City woman a bystander in a spat between a man and his two girlfriends fell out of a third-floor apartment window Wednesday and cracked her skull.
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WATER USE A PROBLEM IN OAKLAND
Borough officials urged residents not to sprinkle lawns or wash cars following a virtual water-use binge that brought reserves to dangerously low levels.
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YOUTH PULLED FROM RIVER DIES
A 13-year-old boy pulled from the Hudson River after being submerged for nearly an hour has died, a Jersey City Medical Center spokeswoman said.
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POLICE CHIEF JOHN J. AGAR, 60
If you cut John J. Agar, township police chief for the past four years, he would bleed blue, a friend said.
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TROOPERS BEING TRAINED TO DISPATCH; THEY’D REPLACE LAID-OFF CIVILIANS
he state police on Thursday began training 29 officers in dispatching in the wake of notices sent to 123 of the agency’s 127 civilian dispatchers that they would be laid off next month.
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COPS READY TO BUCKLE DOWN ON ANYONE NOT BUCKLING UP
Operation Domino, the six-month driver-education program that sponsors said helped reduce automobile accidents in Bergen County by about 1,300 last year, worked so well it is getting a second chance this year beginning today.