A Tenafly woman was stabbed to death by her mentally disturbed son, who then turned the knife on himself and committed suicide, investigators said.
A man who tried to hold up a fast-food restaurant was in critical condition at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood Friday, the victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after the robbery attempt went awry, authorities said.
A gunman hijacked a cargo-filled Caldor truck on Route 46 near the George Washington Bridge on Thursday night and then met up with an accomplice who took the driver to upstate New York, where he was released unharmed, authorities said.
Police have arrested eight men for Monday’s assault and robbery of a bank messenger, who was pulled from his car and beaten as he waited at a red light.
A 15-year-old Elmwood Park boy died Tuesday about an hour after he passed out while sniffing butane gas in the back seat of a friend’s car in Paramus, authorities said Wednesday.
A man in custody on charges of driving a stolen car and eluding police is also being investigated in connection with a hit-and-run accident that left a 16-year-old township girl with two broken legs, police said.
An 18-year-old Teaneck woman, eight months pregnant, lost her baby and was in critical condition Saturday after her mother’s car collided with a gasoline tanker while backing out of their driveway, officials said.
A car driven by a 31-year-old Hackensack man crashed into a center divider and demolished a booth at an Exxon service station on Route 46 Saturday, just missing the gasoline pumps, police said.
A 37-year-old Lodi man injured in a hit-and-run accident while crossing Market Street early Friday died in Hackensack Medical Center of multiple head injuries, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Borough police are seeking witnesses to an accident in which a 77-year-old Allendale man apparently was struck by a school bus Thursday as he crossed the intersection of Wyckoff Avenue and Franklin Turnpike.
NJ Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci admitted new law against sweatshops isn’t strong enough.
In ongoing raids on garment industry sweatshops, state Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci on Friday led journalists to two shops where undocumented Mexican aliens worked.