North Bergen police Tuesday charged a Plainfield youth and issued a warrant for the arrest of a 27-year-old Jersey City man in connection with a fatal collision that police now say was the result of drag racing.
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A 21-year-old Brick Township man died Friday from injuries he suffered when he lost control of his car and it ran off the Newark-Pompton Turnpike and struck a tree, police said.
A dispute between a Bloomfield coach and a Clifton football player boiled over Saturday into a melee between players at a game between the freshman teams from the two communities high schools, according to witnesses.
The labor feud between the Daily News and its workers spilled into North Jersey Thursday morning as a management employee and security guards for the newspaper chased a striker through the streets of Washington Township in their cars, police said.
The director of the Bergen County Police and Fire Academy, injured in an accident last week when he lost control of his van and was broadsided by a truck, remained in critical condition at The Valley Hospital Wednesday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Three Paterson men who allegedly tried to steal a car in the Garden State Plaza parking lot Monday were arrested after a chase by car and on foot into Rochelle Park, police said.
A borough police officer was injured Monday evening when a suspect he was chasing allegedly slammed the door of a house on his elbow, police said. Anthony Masucci of San Francisco was charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct, and was released on $6,000 bail, said Cliffside Park Detective Sgt. Donald Umland.
One man remained in the Bergen County Jail on Saturday while two others were freed on $15,000 bail each following their arrest Friday on charges of receiving stolen property.
An elderly borough woman is alive today, neighbors say, thanks to the care and alertness of her mail carrier, who noticed Thursday that she had not collected her mail the day before. Else Beisler, 87, fell down the stairs into her basement Tuesday evening and lay there for nearly two days, said Nancy Bachmann, her neighbor on Feronia Way.
A 33-year-old New York City man arrested Thursday by city police and charged with possessing a stolen car was wanted for a shooting in Englewood a year ago, police said.