Tag: Hackensack
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A wanderer arrives
When I was a young newspaper reporter (a nerdy one, at that) at The Record in Hackensack, N.J., one of the journalists I looked up to was Michael Powell. Mr. Powell was then at New York Newsday but he had passed through The Record in what was becoming an itinerant career, with stops at Newsday,…
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A MALEVOLENT HULK Sunken ship continues to claim lives By MICHAEL O. ALLEN
Wednesday, August 26, 1998 NEW YORK–On a foggy July night in 1956, 52 people died when the cruise ship Stockholm rammed the luxury liner Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island. But 42 years later, even as the Andrea Doria lies a rusting hulk 240 feet under the Atlantic Ocean, its appetite for blood has not been…
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GLEN ROCK GOLF PRO ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES
MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Sunday, March 15, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | A04 A Glen Rock golf instructor was arrested Friday on charges of selling cocaine, Bergen County Prosecutor John J. Fahy said Saturday. Rodney R. Frith, 31, of 36 Grover Terrace was charged with possession of cocaine with…
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CRASH KILLS DRIVER OF COUNTY VAN
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, February 1, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star | NEWS | A05 Authorities are investigating the crash of a Bergen County special transportation van whose driver died after he apparently lost control and landed in a ravine. Detective George Gibbs of the Bergen County…
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FOILED BURGLARY SUSPECT COULDN’T HOLD UP PANTS
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, January 18, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Police said Michael Bailey’s pants pockets contained 36 nickels, 20 dimes, 12 quarters, lots of pennies, $44 in bills, a black flashlight, a crack pipe, and a razor knife. He was…
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TIP LEADS COPS TO ALLEGED DRUG DEALER
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, December 13, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page B07 Acting on an anonymous tip, city detectives have arrested a suspected drug dealer and a couple he had hired to sell crack and heroin for him, police said. Frankie Lee, 28,…
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FOR BLACK YOUTHS, AN UNEASY START
by Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 27, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Toward the end of his workshop Saturday, the Rev. Clarence L. James Sr. asked boys in the front pew at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack what it takes to be a…
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MEDIA UNFAIR, TEAMSTERS LOCAL SAYS
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Sunday, October 6, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A07 Members of Teamsters Local 560 marched to the state’s largest media outlets Saturday to protest what they called unfair news coverage of the union’s battle with government to elect its own leaders. Starting with…
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QUARTET ARRESTED ON DRUG CHARGES; POLICE SAY ONE SUSPECT ASKED FOR CRACK BACK
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, September 22, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 Responding to neighborhood complaints, Hackensack police descended on First and High streets Friday, arresting four people on drug charges. The four including two 17-year-olds, one of who allegedly insisted that police…
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HACKENSACK POLICE ARREST 15 FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, September 21, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B | NEWS | Page A03 In what police call a continuing crackdown on drug transactions, 15 people have been arrested during the past week. The arrests occurred during routine motor-vehicle stops or during surveillance for…